Clerkhill Shopping Precinct Public Realm

View detail about the consultation - Clerkhill Shopping Precinct, Peterhead - Public Realm | Engage Aberdeenshire

In the summer of 2022, two engagement surveys on the potential public real improvements work were launched. One survey was for the local community, the other for businesses in the Precinct (including owners, operators and staff).

What you said:

There were 177 respondents from the community and an additional five business respondents. The majority of the 139 respondents who gave their postcodes were AB42 residents. The postcode area with the highest response rate was AB42 2 with 96 identified respondents.

Other demographic questions were asked namely age of respondents and whether respondents identified as having a disability. These were felt to be important to the project due to the challenges of the site, especially for anyone with restricted mobility.

The number of younger respondents was low and the number of respondents identifying as having a disability was low. It should be noted that demographic or ‘About you’ questions are entirely voluntary. There may be more younger respondents or respondents with disabilities, but this cannot be known for sure.

People were asked to rate Clerkhill Shopping Precinct public realm on four themes from the Place Standard. The Place Standard tool asks people to rate their places on a scale of one to seven, where one means lots of improvement is required and seven means very little improvement is required.

On three themes the public realm at Clerkhill Shopping Precinct scored three out of seven and in the remaining theme scored four out of seven. This would suggest the community believe there is considerable room for improvement at the site.

It should also be noted that there were many positive comments about the businesses in the area and how important the services on offer are to the local community.

You can see below a summary of the priority actions from the engagement as well as information on issues identified that are not part of the project.

What we did/ will do:

Aberdeenshire Council considered all the feedback along with the findings of ground investigations work which took place in autumn 2022.

All this information is being used to work on designs for public realm improvements. In 2023 there will be a further opportunity to engage with the community and businesses on the designs. Opportunities to get involved in the engagement will appear on Engage Aberdeenshire and be publicised at Clerkhill Road Shopping Precinct.

Comments on the Place Standard ratings highlighted the most important issues. The community responses also prioritised specific potential changes that could be made. By combing these findings, the following priority actions can be identified from the engagement:

Not all community feedback can be dealt with by the scope of this improvement project. These are the key issues raised which won't be part of the Public Realm project: