Community Council AGM - 13 October 2026

FDCC Annual General Meeting and Public Meeting, Tuesday 13th October 2026, 7:30 pm – Crook of Devon Village Hall

The recording of each public meeting was adopted with effect from 3rd February 2026 as standard practice. GDPR will be adhered to. The recording will be securely deleted once the minutes are finalised.

Apologies: FDCCllr Anya Bacon.

The Annual General Meeting will be held first, followed immediately by the ordinary public meeting.

Part One – Annual General Meeting

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1. Welcome and Apologies

2. Approval of Minutes of the 2025 Annual General Meeting

3. Chair’s Annual Report

Review of the work and activities of FDCC during 2025–26.

4. Treasurer’s Report and Annual Accounts

Presentation and approval of the financial report for the year, and to note whether the accounts have been signed.

5. Community Council Membership

To confirm the members of the Community Council for the coming year: Chair; Vice-Chair; Secretary; Treasurer; other Community Councillors; associate Community Councillors; and any vacancies.

6. Meeting Programme for 2026–27

To confirm the proposed schedule and venues for forthcoming public meetings.

7. Close of Annual General Meeting

Part Two – Public Meeting

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1. Community Police Report

1.1 Update from Police Scotland and community questions.

1.2 Community Speedwatch – Police Scotland and Portmoak CC have asked each community council to reach a view at its October meeting on whether there is genuine local interest in Speedwatch and whether volunteers would come forward. Vetting submissions are on hold until a firm plan is in place. Milnathort, Glenfarg, Portmoak and Fossoway are the areas involved and a meeting of those councils is being arranged. A single point of contact is requested from each council, as was also asked at the Kinross-shire Committee. For decision: whether FDCC participates, and who acts as point of contact.

2. Approval of Minutes of the Last Meeting

2.1 Minutes of the meeting held on 1st September 2026.

3. Progress and Matters Arising

3.1 Updated list of actions issued with this agenda.

3.2 LDP3 (A36) – A written update was provided to the Kinross-shire Committee on 17 September. Assessment of the call for sites, urban capacity sites and existing LDP2 sites is almost complete, and work continues on the Housing Needs and Demand Assessment, which will confirm the housing requirement; the minimum figure under the MATHLR is 8,700 homes. No decisions have been made. Engagement is expected first in areas where growth is proposed, with dates to follow. A Proposed Plan is intended to go to Full Council at the start of 2027, followed by statutory consultation. A more detailed update is expected at the December Kinross-shire Committee.

3.3 Seamab School – planning permission and conditions (A47) – Permission for 25/01468/FLL was granted on 11 September. FDCC wrote to Development Management on 1 October seeking clarification on how the conditions are being implemented and monitored, given that much of the development was carried out while the application was under consideration. The letter asks about the status and discharge of pre-commencement conditions, the planning status and future use of the former temporary car park, whether the development as built accords with the approved plans, how the permitted hours for the football pitch and zip line will be enforced, how screening and landscaping will be monitored, how residents should report suspected breaches, and whether a site inspection is intended. A written response is awaited. The letter records that private disputes between individual residents and Seamab remain outside FDCC’s remit.

3.4 Horse use of local paths – The Greenspace Ranger replied on 17 September. Access rights extend to horse riding, the concern being riding on wet or soft ground rather than on firm paths. PKC must keep core paths free from obstruction but has the power rather than the duty to maintain them, so maintenance is a matter for negotiation with landowners. The Ranger will check whether any guidance exists on fouling, and has offered to inspect particular routes, to provide advisory signage as used elsewhere, and to meet local equestrian users. For decision: which routes in Crook of Devon and Drum to put forward for inspection, and whether to take up those offers.

3.5 Brief updates on remaining open actions – Crook Moss clean-up programme and the request for community involvement (A1.2); Rumbling Bridge road safety, including the accident and near-miss figures requested (A22); Green Knowes repowering (A15); Nine Acres / Millennium Path (A21).

4. New Business

4.1 Crook of Devon Shop and Post Office – For noting. A member reported that the apparent owner is seeking £45,000 for the business, understood to be goodwill, lease and stock rather than the freehold. The matter has been passed to the Fossoway Development Trust as a possible community project. No FDCC involvement is proposed at this stage.

4.2 Blairingone School – The Kinross-shire Committee was asked to support acquisition of the former school by the Fossoway Development Trust for £1. Outstanding matters include provision of past electrical and asbestos reports. Alternative proposals for the site are reported to have been exhausted, and the building has suffered water ingress, vandalism and significant deterioration. For noting, and for any FDCC support.

5. Consultations

5.1 Draft Visitor Levy Scheme for Perth and Kinross (A48) – The consultation closes on 11 November. Views expressed at the September meeting were against the proposal, on the grounds that the area is not comparable to destinations overrun with visitors and that a charge risks deterring the visitors it seeks to attract. Any report from the Kinross drop-in session on 24 September. For decision: whether FDCC submits a response, who drafts it, and whether to ask for rural community representation on the Visitor Levy Forum.

5.2 Living and Ageing Well in Perth and Kinross (A49) – The Health and Social Care Partnership is developing a ten-year strategy and is seeking views from older people, carers, families, volunteers and anyone with an interest. The survey is open until 31 October, online or by phone on 07415 172 208. A remaining drop-in session is at AK Bell Library, Perth on 8 October, 10:30am to 12:30pm. For decision: whether to publicise locally and whether FDCC responds.

5.3 Green Living Fund 2026 (A20) – Applications closed on 5 October. FDCC is not eligible to apply in its own right, not holding charity status. Following discussion with the Fossoway Development Trust’s paths team, the Trust is submitting a paths proposal. FDCC will work with the Trust on a plan for joint working on the paths group and expects to support through volunteers, including path clearing. Action proposed for closure, with joint working carried forward under A23.

5.4 A977 traffic calming – Crook of Devon, Powmill and Blairingone – Still awaiting a substantive response from PKC to the response submitted on 15 June.

6. Community Council Business

6.1 FDCC website (A29)

• A full draft site has been built and populated, including news and minutes imported from the legacy site, a calendar, meetings, About Us, a newsletter, a blog, useful links and a planning applications section. A sample production page can be seen at www.fdcc.org.uk/news .
• Costs for the domain, hosting and the editing system are covered. Feedback received favours fossowaycc.org.uk as the domain name.
• To complete before launch: confirm the domain name; agree ownership, access and portability arrangements; finalise the About Us text and profile photographs; complete the content review; and agree a launch date.

6.2 Kinross-shire Committee, 17 September – The Chair attended. Area-specific community data has been requested for Fossoway and District, with contact awaited; the committee’s priorities will be decided at its December meeting. Concerns were raised about queuing traffic, the quality of resurfacing at Carnbo and the quality of recent path works at Crook of Devon, all to be followed up with a quality check by the responsible department. An anti-poverty task force was noted as a new area of Council activity. FDCC await follow-up from PKC officers.

6.3 Finance – Small Fund and bank account (A24, A28) – Update on restoring the TSB account for the Small Fund and on the list of funding priorities to be brought back for approval, together with progress on the paperwork adding FDCCllr Bacon as a signatory.

6.4 Fossoway Development Trust (A23) – Paths group joint working plan and volunteer support; Blairingone School acquisition (item 4.2).

6.5 Kinross High School (A7) – Arrangements for students to attend a future meeting to give updates on projects at the school, including possible work with FDCC.

7. PKC Business – Councillors’ Reports

Standing items: recycling facilities in Powmill; roads maintenance; Flood Resilience Grant Scheme; mid-market rental housing; Rumbling Bridge Gorge management plan.

8. Declarations of Interest

The Chair has declared an interest in planning application 26/01347/IPL, her household being a notified neighbour, and will take no part in FDCC’s consideration of that application. Any further interests to be declared before the following item. Chair has declared an interest in the Perth and Kinross visitor levy, as a tourism business owner.

9. Planning Matters

9.1 Planning applications

New

26/01284/FLL – Installation of flue, Blairingone Church, Main Street, Blairingone. Comments by 8 October, two days after this meeting. Views sought.

26/01285/LBC – Listed building consent for the same works at Blairingone Church. Comments by 16 October.

26/01122/FLL – Erection of storage building, Unit 1, Devon Business Park, Rumbling Bridge, for ITC Homes Ltd. Comments by 16 October. Members may wish to note that this appears alongside 26/01121/FLL for a storage building at the same unit, lodged last month for ITC Builders Ltd, on which FDCC raised no objection; clarification of the relationship between the two may be useful.

26/01347/IPL – Erection of a dwellinghouse (in principle), Land 35 metres east of Craigton House, Rumbling Bridge. Comments by 16 October. See item 8.

Ongoing

26/01097/FLL – Two dwellinghouses, The Watermill, Crook of Devon. FDCC objected on 19 August; decision awaited.

Devonshaw Quarry, Powmill (23/00491/FLM) – the applicant is to submit a new application for the drainage arrangements following its inability to meet Condition 31. Not yet lodged; FDCC to watch the weekly lists.

9.2 Planning decisions – Permission was granted on 11 September for 25/01468/FLL, Seamab School (see item 3.3). No other decisions affecting the FDCC area have been announced.

10. AOCB (Any Other Competent Business)

10.1 - TBC

11. Date, Time and Venue of Next Meeting

Tuesday 3rd November 2026, 7:30 pm - Carnbo Village Hall.

Action List

Ref	Action	Owner(s)	Status
A1.2	Crook Moss – liaise with PKC and SEPA on waste / pollution cleanup; respond to the request for community involvement in the planned clean-up programme	Angus / Cllrs	Ongoing
A7	Kinross High School – arrange for students to attend a future meeting and agree any follow-up project	Karen / Anya	Ongoing
A15	Respond to Green Knowes repowering scoping consultation; press for consultee status and for inclusion in community benefit allocations for Fossoway	Volunteer	Open
A21	Nine Acres building activities – monitor, liaise with PKC and encourage residents to obtain case references	Cllrs	Open
A22	Rumbling Bridge – pursue the accident and near-miss figures requested from PKC’s road safety team	Karen	Ongoing
A23	FDT – agree the joint working plan on the paths group, including FDCC volunteer support	Karen / Anya	Ongoing
A24	Small Fund – restore the TSB account and prepare the list of funding priorities for FDCC approval	Graham / Hugh	Ongoing
A28	Complete bank account signatory paperwork adding FDCCllr Bacon	Graham	Open
A29	Website – confirm domain, cost and portability arrangements; complete content review and agree a launch date	Gary / Anya	Ongoing
A36	LDP3 – track engagement opportunities and the Proposed Plan going to Full Council in early 2027	Karen	Ongoing
A38	Sustainability Group – attend the meeting of 19 November 2026	Anya	Open
A46	Community Speedwatch – confirm whether there is genuine local interest and volunteers, and nominate a single point of contact to Police Scotland and the neighbouring community councils		New
A47	Seamab 25/01468/FLL – pursue a written response from Development Management on discharge of conditions, the status of the former temporary car park, and monitoring and enforcement	Karen	New
A48	Draft Visitor Levy Scheme – agree and submit the FDCC response before 11 November		New
A49	Living and Ageing Well – publicise the survey, which closes 31 October, and agree whether FDCC responds	Anya	New

Appendix – Closed Actions

Ref	Action	Owner(s)	Status
A20	Green Living Fund 2026 – FDCC is not eligible to apply, lacking charity status. FDT is submitting a paths proposal; FDCC to support through volunteers and joint working (see A23)	All	Closed
A42	Seamab absconding incident reported to Police Scotland – Police confirmed no accident was reported	Karen	Closed