The My Place Awards celebrate community-led built environment projects that have transformed their locality. Learn more about the 2024 entries below!
My Place Awards: 2024
The Corner, DarvelWinner
DART (Darvel Area Regeneration Team)
East Ayrshire
A place to socialise, celebrate and have a blether! This was the very place where the Darvel Industrial Cooperative Society with its range of shops and function rooms was situated at the heart of our small town for well over a century – a cornerstone of our community. In its heyday, when Darvel was a world leader ...
Alloa HubCommended
Clackmannanshire Council via Hub East Central
Clackmannanshire
In 2018 the public toilets in the Maple Court area of Alloa Town Centre were closed by Clackmannanshire Council. The building of simple construction with terrible thermal performance lay derelict until identified for redevelopment as part of the multi-agency Living Alloa project. Community engagement was crucial to developing the brief for Alloa Hub. A series of ...
Inchyra ParkCommended
Friends of Inchyra park
Falkirk
The project started with the creation of a 100-tree community memorial orchard. The idea was to bring a sense of ownership to the community. We have transformed 4000 sq metres of unused land into a wildflower meadow and regenerated our swing park all through volunteers from schools and the community. Our overarching priority was to realise ...
An LaimhrigShortlisted
Eigg Trading Ltd
Highland
‘An Laimhrig’ provides Eigg’s 115 residents with a new facility, combining social and business space for residents and visitors to enjoy. The project transformed a small much-loved building in poor condition into a bright, spacious and energy-efficient community hub. The original An Laimhrig was Eigg’s first project, built one year after the community took ownership of ...
Craigie Street Pocket ParkShortlisted
Dundee City Council
Dundee
The Craigie Street Pocket Park is a partnership between Sustrans, Scottish Water, the local community group The Stobswell Forum SCIO and Dundee City Council to deliver a new high-quality pocket park in Craigie St along with streetscape enhancements in a number of other streets in the Albert Street District Shopping Centre. Previously perceived as being dull ...
Leith Community Croft PavilionShortlisted
Earth In Common
Edinburgh
Our purpose is to create a happy, healthy, leafy Leith and foster responsible global citizenship. We believe engagement with nature is not only key to achieving environmental goals (e.g. combating climate change and biodiversity decline) but is also effective in addressing mental, physical and social issues. We aim to help locally, through helping individuals and ...
Above Adventure
Above Adventure
East Ayrshire
Above Adventure is a really special project. It has seen a local sports charity take on a derelict, B-listed former church and convert it into a spectacular regional climbing and bouldering centre. Above Adventure is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) based in Kilmarnock, set up to deliver outdoor sport activities within the local community. The ...
Auchinloch Right of Way
Auchinloch Community Council in partnership with key stakeholders and local landowners
North Lanarkshire
Auchinloch is a rural area in the north-west corner of North Lanarkshire, on the boundary of East Dunbartonshire to the north and the boundary with Glasgow one mile to the west. The public right of way for many years has been overgrown and impassible – with no active travel between our village and any other ...
Battle of Prestonpans Jacobite Heritage Museum
Prestonpans Town Hall
East Lothian
The key to the project was transforming the Town Hall interiors into a warm and welcoming space, suitable for use as a museum but also preserving a degree of flexibility to accommodate a wide range of events and activities. Since its construction in 1896-7, the building had been modestly extended on its western side, creating ...
Blantyre Miners Welfare Community Garden
Blantyre Miners Welfare/Bonnie Blantyre
South Lanarkshire
The project took over of a piece of derelict ground approx 4000 square yards and turned it into a garden that has supported the community in various projects (including charity lunches, presentations and plant sales). This piece of land was a building site in 2020 when acquired and although the work carried out that year was ...