Month: February 2025

Stranraer celebrates bright future with Place Plan backing

Main picture: Left to right, Nikki Marie Vjatschlav, Chair of the Town Team and lead on the Unexpected Garden; Harry Harbottle, Vice Chair of Stranraer Development Trust, the organisation leading the Place Plan project; Barbara Chalmers, who led the creation of the Place Plan with local people; Chris Churms, Borderlands (funders) and Janet Jones, Creative Stranraer. Photo: Pete Robinson, PRImaging

LOCALS have celebrated the news of Stranraer securing £3 million for its ambitious Place Plan. One of six projects to be given the green light is The Big Makeover which will see a number of interventions taking place to brighten the town. Starting in April this year and delivered over the course of the next… Read more »