Community Council Minutes - March 2016

Draft Minutes Fossoway and District Community Council
1st March 2016, Blairingone Primary School

Attending: Community Cllrs: Trudy Duffy, Kevin Borthwick, Graham Pye, Richard Nesbitt and Graham Kilby; Cllrs Mike Barnacle, Dave Cuthbert, Joe Giacopazzi and Willie Robertson.; Four Members of the Public (MoP).
Apologies: CCllr Angus Cheape
Declarations of Interest: None.
Police report: No report received. PC Stapleton was due to attend. The PK Community Watch system reported that there was a break-in at a property between Crook of Devon and Cardenden (probably actually Carden) on 24th February.

Minutes of the previous meeting: Minutes were signed off without amendment.

Matters Arising
Crook Moss Travellers’ Site: The DMC will receive an updated report next month. Scottish Water are currently conducting a flow and load survey to assess the capacity of the Drum processing plant.
Lambhill Chipping plant: The hearing agreed at the 8th December meeting of the LRB, was held today (1st March.) John Anderson reported that the hearing took four hours and after extensive discussion the LRB decided unanimously to uphold the original decision, i.e. to turn down the application.
A977 Defects and Mitigation Measures: With the re-opening of the FRB, the HGV traffic on the A977 has now reduced. Local Councillors have held a meeting with PKC Roads department, and a business case will be prepared to implement mitigation measures in a phased way. Example measures in the first phase would include 40mph speed limits, speed indicating signs, more obvious road furniture to indicate village entries and side mounted drains. The CC has received an email from Jim Pritchard of the Fossoway School Parent Council asking whether mitigation measures could be implemented on the A977 in order to improve the safety of children going to and from the school. The CC will write to the Chief Executive to seek a review of the Safer Routes to School programme. Cllr Giacopazzi has had a meeting with the MD of Tayside Contracts (road contractors) who has assured him that potholes are being repaired properly, although there were widely held opinions by those present that this is commonly not the case. Currently there are 6014 potholes being repaired and efforts are being made to catch up on the backlog. Road problems (including potholes) should be reported to CLARENCE (the road report hotline) on 0800 232323.
Emergency Support Centre: CCllr Kilby reports that the Hall Committee has this on the agenda for their next meeting.
LDP2 MIR Consultation: The Main Issues Report (MIR) has recently been published. This document contains proposed variations to the Local Development Plan (LDP) which defines where, and how, development can take place in Perth and Kinross-shire for the next ten years. There was good attendance at the drop-in sessions. Comments on the MIR must be made before the 16th March, preferably on the form obtainable at www.pkc.gov.uk/mainissuesldp2.
Boundary Commission: Awaiting their decision after our comments. The decision will be announced at the end of May, i.e. after the Scottish election, so it is important to ascertain the position of all candidates on this issue as the Scottish Government has the final decision.
Community Council Grant: Cllr Pye reports that the bank has not yet been able to retrieve the money, but have sent a reminder to the incorrect recipient. Next step is to ask PKC to resolve.
Ivy Cottage Powmill: Owner has been identified, and they are due to propose a plan this month. The property is in imminent danger of collapse.

Matters Arising With No Update Since Last Meeting
Rumbling Bridge Hydro Scheme, Blairingone War Memorial, Safer Route to School – Drum, Station Road Adoption: No update.
Bollards Opposite Crook Village Hall: Awaiting a report from PKC Roads Department on how the safety of this section of road could be improved.
Crook Moss Community Involvement: Ongoing.

New Business
None.

Community Council Business
Meetings Attended: None this month.

Councillors’ Reports
Mike Barnacle: PKC Roads are investigating whether the Naemoor road bridge could get signs indicating that traffic from one direction has priority.
Dave Cuthbert: Is attending a Property sub-committee meeting discussing the disposal of an old school building in Scone, which appears to be being handled in a different way from the old Kinross High school site.
Could Crook of Devon football pitches be developed? Local teams are developing pitches in Milnathort instead.
Powmill in Bloom are doing a great job, are there similar groups for Crook of Devon or Blairingone, if not, why not? Could someone be found to lead them?
Joe Giacopazzi: Has asked Darryl McEwan to look at signposting the bends by Hillside farm on A91 where there have been several accidents.
DMC allowed the development of the bungalow in Vicars Bridge Road in Blairingone as there were no planning grounds for rejection, however there continues to be local difficulties on this site.
Willie Robertson: Citylink Buses are about to publish their summer timetable. Cllr Robertson has written to Citylink asking them to reverse the changes made to their timetable which reduced the number of stops at Kinross P&R.
PKC’s Education budget for the next year includes reduction in “back room staff”, which will probably mean that teachers have less time to actually teach.

Planning Matters
15/02183/FLL: Alterations to fence to increase height, Mossgrove, Drum, Kinross KY13 0PR. No Community Council comment.
16/00281/LAW Erection of dwelling house (existing) Am Botham, Crook of Devon, Kinross KY13 0UL. No Community Council comment.
16/00274/AML Erection of a dwelling house (matters specified by conditions - 12/01566/IPL) at Burnside, Vicar's Bridge Road, Blairingone, Dollar FK14 7LR. Application very recently posted so the CC will await any local comments for two weeks and then decide whether to comment.
15/02078/FLL Change of use from paddock to form 3no gypsy/traveller pitches and erection of a fence (in retrospect), Crook Moss, Fossoway. Application documents have been updated. The CC has already objected.

Correspondence: All the correspondence was available for viewing.
Scottish Natural Heritage are holding a meet the Chairman and Senior staff meeting on 9th March at the Green Hotel in Kinross from 7 to 9pm.

AOCB: After the closure of Cllr Robertson’s shop, he had some peat left over. Cllr Duffy has put him I touch with the Powmill in Bloom group so they can receive it.

Draft Agenda for Next CC Meeting
Welcome and Apologies, Declarations of Interest, Community Policing, Minutes of last meeting.
Matters arising: Crook Moss Travellers’ Site, A977 Mitigation, Emergency Support Centre, LDP2 MIR Consultation, Boundary Commission, CC Grant, Ivy Cottage Powmill.
Community Councillors: Meetings Attended, PKC Councillors’ Reports, Planning, Correspondence, AOCB

Next Meeting: Tuesday 5th April 2016 7:30 pm
Carnbo Village Hall
All Welcome