Biggar & District Community Heritage Limited

Constitutional objectives

The preservation, restoration and improvement of the environment in and around the Operating Area through the provision, maintenance and/or the improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects, and on the basis that in doing so, the Company shall seek wherever appropriate (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landlords) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. The promotion, for the public benefit, of the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and/or environmental significance within the Operating Area. To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment. To promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity. To provide, in the interests of social welfare, for the inhabitants of the Operating Area, facilities for recreational or other leisure-time occupation with a view to improving the aforesaid persons' conditions of life. To stimulate public interest and education, both national and international, in the objects of the Company by means of exhibitions, lectures, publishing of books and pamphlets, supporting research work and by the provision of resources to promote these ends.