Welcome to the Heriot Community Website
This is the community website for the village of Heriot.
Heriot is a rural community of approximately 160 properties located in the Eildon area of the Scottish Borders.
Community Council Meetings
The next meeting of HCC will be held on Wednesday 14th October at 7:00pm at Macfie Hall
Download the minutes for August 19th 2026
Facebook page
Regular news items, including road closures, and local events are posted to the Heriot Community Council facebook page.
Email List
Heriot Community Council occasionally sends out emails regarding council business such as agendas and minutes of meetings. Should you wish to receive these, please send an email request to the secretary at secretary@heriot.info with your email address and name. Also, please inform the secretary of any changes to your email, if you wish to stop receiving emails or if you do not receive expected emails. We try to keep the list current and remove emails that fail. The data collected is only used to send out emails from HCC.
Heriot Plan
The community council has produced a draft version for a Heriot plan, containing background information about the Heriot community and location, with suggestions for how Heriot would like to develop in the future. This is for submitting into the next Eildon Area plan of the Scottish Borders Council.
Comments and suggestions for changes or additions to the plan are welcome.
Consultation on windfarm funded projects
In 2011 a consultation was undertaken by Heriot Windfarm Panel. This produced results detailing projects that people like to see accomplished in the village.
Trial speed limit of 50mph on the A7
Please let us know your views, by emailing us on 50mph@heriot.info.
The 50mph speed limit is due to the disproportionate volume of motorcycle crashes. We welcome your first-hand impressions. Has it made any difference? Is it a good idea, or a bad idea? Should it be made permanent, or dropped? Are drivers observing it?
HCC will collate all feedback and provide this to SBC at the end of the trial period.
download the Community Council Briefing Paper for Trial 50mph speed limit.
Heriot Community Council Training or Education Grant
HCC, on behalf of SSE Renewables (operators of Toddleburn Wind Farm) can distribute a maximum of £1500 in 2026-27 (year 2) plus the remaining £500 from year 2025-26 (year 1) as education and training grants for Heriot residents.
HCC will open a 6-week window for submitting applications from 16th September to 27th October 2026.
How to apply?
Individuals should read the guidance and complete the short application form.
Send completed application forms, questions, or any requests for clarification to secretary@heriot.info.
More details about this grant are on the Community Funds page.
Heriot Local Place Plan and Heriot Community Action Plan
First meeting on the 7th October at Macfie Hall
Scottish Borders Council - like all other councils - is strongly urging the community of Heriot to produce either or both of the these plans.
It makes sense to do so and we hope you would like to be involved!!
SBC produces a council wide Local Development Plan every 10 years and Heriot Community Council needs to feed in to this with a Local Place Plan (LPP) - a community-led plan which allows us to propose ideas and priorities for the development and use of land in Heriot. For example, what type of housing growth do we want in the village and where do we want it? What green spaces, infrastructure, or local amenities do we want? The LPP must be "collaborative and inclusive, with meaningful engagement with local people, public bodies, and other stakeholders" For more info: https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/plans-guidance/local-place-plans
As a community, it is also good practice to produce a Local Action Plan (LAP). The purpose of this would be to identify concerns issues and opportunities that we see within Heriot and want to address or provide for ourselves.
Clearly both plans require effective consultation and it is HCC's aim to try and streamline the consultation in to one process. SBC can provide contacts to help, templates to follow and some funding.
In HCC meetings, we have agreed to form a working group to lead on starting the planning process, doing the consultation, and then working on the plans. There is lots of help and some finance available from both SBC and e.g. Foundation Scotland and windfarms (who are keen that we have such Plans to help their decision making on grant applications.)
An (impressive) example from Stow and Fountainhall is here:
https://www.stow.scot/community-action-plan
They had professional assistance with its development, which sounds like a good idea!
Representing HCC, Sue Sharp, Helen White and Claire Rogers have all agreed to be involved, and Christine Connelly, Tom Gillis and Felix Otton have kindly put their hands up at recent meetings (Thank you - you're in!).
We feel that local organisations and groups should also be represented and will send out invitations.
Please could you let us know if you would agree to be involved, and if you are representing an organisation or group, which one(s)?
We are planning a meeting on the 7th October at Macfie Hall to kick this off.
This should be a really worthwhile and interesting process and we look forward to making Heriot an even better place to live in the future!