Victoria Halls, Helensburgh

We all have a stake in the future of Helensburgh. We need your voice to make sure that the future benefits everyone who lives and visits our town. Creating a vision for Helensburgh is a task for the whole community, and we want you to have your say on how the town is shaped for its people and its visitors for subsequent generations.

In 2019, Helensburgh Community Council created a working group, Vision for Helensburgh. The working group was created to gather community and visitor information on how residents and visitors see Helensburgh and how they would like to see it flourish. The ultimate output would be to formulate a Local Place Plan. Local Place Plans are a tool for local communities to think about making their “place” better, agree on priorities, and take action (often working with others) to make change happen.

Since it began its task in 2019 Vision for Helensburgh has gathered 900 face-to-face and online feedbacks and circa 4000 comments from the community and visitors.  The feedback had an additional focus of collecting input from the whole of the community, the Royal Navy, and from those voices traditionally less heard within Helensburgh. We also listened to those visiting the area to see how others see us.

Finally, we combined these multiple viewpoints into our community’s strengths to develop them and what was seen as Helensburgh’s weaknesses to address them.

As part of our process, we need to ensure the validity of our findings by presenting them back to the Helensburgh community. We’re well aware that the COVID pandemic may have shifted some priorities since the time of our initial questionnaire.

On the 12th and 13th March 2022, we held an event at the Victoria Halls to share with the community the original and updated Vision for Helensburgh findings and gather community feedback on that.

As well as the Vision for Helensburgh findings, we hosted twenty local
community groups, all of which have been active in improving specific aspects of life in Helensburgh. 

Exhibitors in the 2022 Event

• Access Trust
• Architecture & Design Helensburgh – Re-imagining Our Waterfront
• Argyll and Bute Council
• Cardross Climate Action Network
• Helensburgh Community Council’s Vision For Helensburgh
• Destination Helensburgh
• Friends of Duchess Woods
• Garelochhead Station Trust
• Grey Matters
• Helensburgh Community Hub
• Helensburgh Community Woodlands Group
• Helensburgh Golf Club – New Golf Course Development
• Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club
• Helensburgh Pier – Outline for Regeneration
• Helensburgh Tree Conservation Trust
• Jean’s Bothy
• Live Argyll – New Pool Development
• Plastic Free Helensburgh
• Royal Navy
• Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club
• The British Legion Scotland
• Tower Digital Arts Centre & Submarine Centre Development