Draft Minutes Meeting Fossoway and District Community Council Tuesday 4th December 2012

Draft Minutes Meeting Fossoway and District Community Council
Tuesday 4th December 2012, Fossoway School, Crook of Devon

Attending: S Morrison, A Lavery, K Borthwick, Rod Paterson, S Anderson, A Cheape, Cllr M Barnacle, and 10 Members of the Public (MoP).

Apologies: Cllr Joe Giacopazzi, Cllr D Cuthbert, Cllr W Robertson and T Duffy-Wigman

Declarations of interest: None

Community Policing: Community police officer was not present, but sent a report: A977 closure and concern over school run parking – checks made; Carnbo speed checks continue; No recent crimes; Speed checks continue on local arterial routes; Operation Ainslie (12th November – 24th December) aims to target and disrupt housebreakers in the Tayside area which then use the A9 as a rapid escape route – Any information from the public concerning this is welcome.

Minutes of the previous meeting: There were no amendments so the minutes were signed off.

Matters arising:
• Blairingone War Memorial: Alastair reports that the developer does plan to move the war memorial.
• Crook of Devon Church Car Park: Church is progressing this.
• Signposting Core Paths and Rights of Way: Cllr Barnacle says that there is no news about this.
• Lambhill Wood Chip Plant at Blairingone: Calum Snowie will not be presenting to this meeting – a date will be fixed in the future, hopefully at the next meeting as that is in Blairingone. Gordon Banks MP has written to David Littlejohn to clarify the details of the applications. Cllr Barnacle reports that Cllr Cuthbert has written to Nick Bryant and has received a response explaining why the applications are being handled separately.
• Travellers’ Site at Crook Moss, Crook of Devon: Sandy reports that Phase 2 responses to the complaints are being processed and are due by 8th December. Cllr Barnacle notes that the 1st August meeting deferred the application pending reports on grey water disposal and contaminated land and there has been no change since, meanwhile the occupants are still there; MoPs ask what SEPA are doing – investigations continue but they can’t do anything without proof of damage. There was extensive discussion on this item and considerable disquiet from members of the public regarding the council officers responses and lack of response to the communities concerns.
• Catering Kiosk at Craigton Road, Powmill: The sign has been reduced in size. Cllr Barnacle has had a phone call from the owners of the Milk Bar expressing concern about the number of signs – the PKC enforcement officer has instructed the owner to remove signs other than those on his own land.

CC Business: Kevin attended Dunning Glen meeting - Police have spent quite a lot of time making checks of people and vehicles at the site which has resulted in some offences being reported. The Police request reports (to the non-emergency number) whenever there are congregations of people there.
Sandy, Kevin and Cllr Barnacle met with Gordon Banks MP on 12th November to discuss the Traveller’s Site (as minuted above.) Gordon suggested that another route of complaint might be for the community to approach Audit Scotland.
Sandy attended Planning Users’ Forum – a proposal was made to involve CCs in the preparation of the next local plan in four years’ time, this seems ironic since our input to the current plan was largely ignored!
Sandy attended Working with Community Councils meeting, where all the other CC representatives agreed that their views were also largely ignored.
Angus attended Kinross Fund Meeting where five grants were awarded.

PKC Councillors’ reports:
Cllr Barnacle: Kinross ward councillors met with Peter Marshall and Nick Bryant and discussed the status of the AGLV, flood risk concerns, interpretation of Housing in the Countryside policies, lack of reference to any work done by the Strategy Group in any planning report ; and Wind Turbine policies. The planners expressed a desire to improve their relationship with the CCs – it was suggested that the planners should attend the CC network meetings.
Carnbo telephone box has disappeared - pavement restoration needs to be done appropriately to mitigate flooding, the Roads department assure Cllr Barnacle they will do the right thing.
Rumbling Bridge 30mph speed limit sign has been moved, not to Naemoor road as previously suggested, but to a location that has caused new concerns from other residents. In the longer term, this will be addressed by making Naemoor road a “green road” which will mean it gets a 20mph limit.
Meeting with roads department discussed Drum Main street access only request which will be addressed by improving signage to encourage vehicles to take the main road instead.
Meeting with public transport unit about bus services – Cllr Barnacle has proposed a figure of eight loop around the villages, comments and other bus route suggestions invited from all.
Local Plan: Although there were over 1500 representations to the draft plan, there is no intention by Forward Planning to change the plan at all! The only result is that a report of the representations will be sent with the draft plan to the Reporter. A special PKC meeting will be held in January to give local members an opportunity to propose amendments, or pass the plan unchanged. The Councillors need input from the CC as to which items are sufficiently serious that our councillors should raise amendments to change them. Alastair suggests that the most significant omission from the plan is that it covers nothing other than housing, i.e. no infrastructure improvements, school provision, etc. Also a policy for Blairingone housing is needed. It was agreed that the CC members would discuss the issue prior to Christmas in order to give feedback to the Councillors.

Planning:
12/01848/FLL Erection of a dwelling house. Land 50 Metres South West Of Merryhills Rumbling Bridge.
No Community Council comment.

12/01895/IPL Erection of a dwelling house (in principle). Site 250 Metres North East Of Devonshaw, Powmill.
No Community Council comment.

12/01931/FLL Alterations to workshop to form granny flat. Corrie-Tigh, Rumbling Bridge Kinross KY13 0PT.
No Community Council comment.

12/02019/IPL Renewal of planning consent (09/01279/IPL) erection of a dwelling house (in outline). Land at Blashieburn, Vicar's Bridge Road Blairingone.
No Community Council comment.

12/02025/FLL Erection of four dwelling houses, Site West of Carnbo Farm House, Carnbo
Community Council Objects: Part of the site is outwith the settlement boundary, Policy 48; Number of houses on the green field section of the site exceeds Local Plan Policy 94; Lack of detail on foul water drainage (Policies 10, 11, 12, 95).

Correspondence: Full list was circulated to the attendees; however upcoming events of interest are as follows:
• B9097 Closure between junction with A977 and U241, Drum, from 10th December for two weeks.
• Waste Collection over festive period: No uplift on 25th, 26th December, 1st and 2nd January.

AOCB:
Road Closure A977: There was extensive discussion on this item. Traffic attempting to avoid the closure caused some problems in spite of the council signposting diversions. Cllr Barnacle points out that the traffic chaos caused proves that the A977 is a significant route through this area. The CC will give feedback to the council on extra signage.

Road closure B9097 10th December: In the absence of physical barriers, then it’s likely that people will take inappropriate diversions again.

Jim Marshall of Walkmill (amongst other residents) reports that the water supply to Crook of Devon smells of Chlorine – Is this a widespread problem? Cllr Barnacle reports that Scottish Water has done some tests and is still investigating. A notice will be posted in the shop requesting any residents who are concerned to contact the CC, Mike Barnacle, or Scottish Water, thanks to Andrew for his co-operation.

Advertising on CC notice boards, e.g. from the Forestry Commission will no longer be allowed.

Draft Agenda for Next CC Meeting
• Welcome and apologies
• Declarations of interest
• Community Policing
• Minute of last meeting
• Matters arising
• Community Council Business
• Councillors’ reports
• Planning applications
• Correspondence
• AOCB

Next Meeting: Tuesday 8th January, 7:30 pm
Blairingone Primary School. All welcome!