Community Council Minutes - October 2014

Draft Minutes Fossoway and District Community Council
7th October 2014, Blairingone Primary School
Attending: CCllrs: Sandy Morrison, Trudy Duffy, Kevin Borthwick, Alastair Lavery, Angus Cheape and Graham Pye; Cllrs Mike Barnacle, Dave Cuthbert and Willie Robertson; and eight members of the public.

Apologies: CClr Rod Paterson and Cllr Joe Giacopazzi

Declarations of Interest: None.

Police report: No Community Police officer was present, and no Police report was received. Note that future attendance will depend on shift patterns and incidents.
Sergeant Williams notified us that the email address to be used to contact our local community officer is: Taysidekinross-shireCPT@scotland.pnn.police.uk this mailbox is also monitored by Sgt Williams ensuring any messages sent to it will be actioned. Cllr Barnacle has spoken to Inspector Sangster about the reduced attendance at CC meetings, and was told that the above mailbox should be used to raise issues.
MoP observes that speeding through Blairingone is a continuing problem that seems not to be being addressed by the Police. The CC will take this up with the Police.
Ryder Cup Traffic Plan: General view was that it worked very well for attendees, although it was considered that the road closures and changes seemed a little excessive. Communication to residents could have been more extensive. An Auchterarder resident contacted the CC complaining about the money spent on the road and rail improvement totalling £7M.

Minutes of the previous meeting: Were signed off without amendments.

Matters arising
Criminal Justice Unpaid Work Team: No response as yet from Carnbo and Crook of Devon Village Halls to request for work proposals. See also Dunning Glen item below.
Rumbling Bridge Hydro Scheme: Awaiting update
Blairingone War Memorial: Cllr Barnacle reports that the new wall is complete, and a new location has been proposed. Concern about nearby trees damaging the wall has been addressed. However in view of the closeness of the First World War remembrance events it has been agreed that the move of the memorial will now be postponed until next spring.
Crook Moss Travellers’ Site: The deadline to comply with the conditions imposed by PKC is the end of October. Cllr Robertson has received a revised set of conditions dated 3rd September, some of the conditions, including water supply, have now been pushed out to January next year. Some vehicles were seen in the paddock area, but have now been removed again.
Glenquey Quarry: The application is not on the October agenda.
Blairingone Community Workshop: Kevin reported on the results of a meeting between the consultants of the landowners (Mr Stewart and Mr Manclark) together with representatives of PKC’s planning department: A strategic plan will be developed and brought to the residents for discussion.
Lambhill Chipping plant: It’s reported that Malcolm and Callum Snowie are happy to meet members of the community at any time to explain what’s going on, how they are operating within their consent, etc. Cllr Barnacle will pass this on to Nick Brian tomorrow with the hope that the long-proposed site meeting with the planners, Councillors and Community Councillors can finally be arranged.
Crook Moss Community Acquisition: No further action until the position about future developments in this area are clarified with the landowner.
Dunning Glen: Thanks to Sergeant Williams of Police Scotland who organised a clean-up using the Unpaid Work Team, and they are prepared to do it again. However this is only a short-term solution…
Fossoway Primary School: The community is extremely pleased with the improvement in all aspects of the education experience; however they wish to be assured that PKC will actively monitor the school, providing any necessary assistance to maintain and develop this welcome improvement.
Landscape areas in Kinross-shire: This CC is in support of this report based on Cllr Barnacle’s review. Cllr Barnacle notes that the full report will be available to this CC later this month, and once it has been reviewed the CC will add its own comments.

New Business
A977 Defects: There have been several letters from local residents complaining about the surfacing of the road through Crook of Devon. Our councillors have also followed this up. A response has been received from Stuart D’All agreeing to carry out some repairs immediately and to schedule repositioning of road gullies next year – the latter should help to reduce noise from large vehicles.
MoPs raised several issues about the quality of resurfacing work and repairs, several of which are already breaking up – Are the contractors carrying out this work being adequately supervised?
In spite of numerous attempts by our Councillors to raise this issue, there is no sign of any long term plan being created to address the A977.
Waulkmill Play Area: Is currently under refurbishment.
Community Empowerment Bill: The CC has responded to this proposal, and generally welcomes the tone and thrust of the proposal. Community Planning only mentions representatives from public service providers not the community. How is the community going to be involved? Community Organisations, the principle of involvement is welcomed, but there has to be a means by which the service provider is judged on their involvement. The CC is in agreement regarding the taking over of public building.

Community Council Business
Sandy attended the Scottish Rural Parliament inaugural regional event, which follows a model of similar bodies in Europe. The general consensus at the meeting was that if the new body did not have elected representatives and decision making powers it would just become another talking shop.

Councillors’ reports
Cllr Robertson: There’s a problem that Reports of Handling are not including the Conservation Officer’s Report, or any of its contents, which Cllr Robertson raised at the discussion of the recent Kinross High School Site application. In order to address this issue, Cllr Robertson has tabled a motion in the relevant committee to prevent this happening in future.
There are still £1.6M arrears from the historical Community Charge, and the increased number of people now on the Electoral Roll might have allowed some of this to be recouped; however there is now proposed legislation from the Scottish Government to no longer pursue these historic debts.
Cllr Barnacle: There are a whole set of problems are present in the Planning Process (as this CC knows only too well) and Cllr Barnacle is raising this through the Member Officer Working Group.
Cllr Cuthbert: Had written a report of problems with the Kinross High School Site Report of Handling which was circulated to all members before the meeting. Cllr Cuthbert is proposing to hold a monthly meeting between the senior planners and our local members where outstanding issues can be raised and progressed.

Planning Matters
There are no new applications for this area this month; there is one application outstanding from October:
14/01486/FLL Erection of dwelling house (in principle) at land 300 metres North-East of former Craigend Farm, Powmill. The CC will contact PKC as application information is incomplete.
The CC was contacted by PNE Wind, the developers of the proposed North Hill Wind Farm, and although they were invited to attend this meeting have not yet replied. Meanwhile, the Scottish Government have issued a Scoping Opinion Request for this development, which this CC will respond to.
Kinross-shire Civic Trust has raised two formal complaints against PKC regarding handling of the Kinross High School site application.
The appeal against the decision to turn down the Outh Muir Wind Farm has been dismissed.

Correspondence: All the correspondence was available for viewing:
Kinross-shire Winter Festival (November/December) including Eddi Reader (22nd November), Iain hunter (15th November), Kinross-shire’s Got Talent competition (14th November) Choirs Together (16th November) Handel’s Messiah in a day (23rd November) One Night on Broadway (20th November) and many more. See the website and Facebook page for more details http://www.kinrossmusicfestival.co.uk/

AOCB: None.

Draft Agenda for Next CC Meeting
• Welcome and Apologies
• Declarations of Interest
• Community Policing
• Minutes of last meeting
• Matters arising: Unpaid Work Team, Hydro Scheme, Blairingone War Memorial, Crook Moss Travellers’ Site, Glenquey Quarry, Blairingone Community Workshop, Lambhill Chipping Plant, Landscape Areas in Kinross-shire, A977 Defects
• Community Councillors - Meetings Attended
• PKC Councillors’ Reports
• Planning
• Correspondence
• AOCB
Next Meeting: Tuesday 4th November 7:30 pm
Powmill Moubray Hall
All Welcome