Draft Minutes Fossoway and District Community Council
7th March 2017, Blairingone Primary School
Attending: Community Cllrs: Cameron Brown, Angus Cheape, Jennifer Donachie, Trudy Duffy, Carol Farquhar and Graham Pye; P&K Cllrs Mike Barnacle, Dave Cuthbert and Willie Robertson; 13 Members of the Public (MoP).
Apologies: CCllr Graham Kilby and Cllr Joe Giacopazzi.
Declarations of Interest: None.
Police report: Unfortunately, no Officer was able to be present at the meeting. There were two incidents to note in our area from the Commander’s Reports received via Perth and Kinross Community Watch: Between Friday 3rd and Monday 6th February a large blue bucket containing horse feed was stolen from a field off Vicars Bridge Road; The Powmill Milk Bar was broken into during the early hours of Monday 20th February.
Minutes of the previous meeting: Cllr Giacopazzi clarified that the phrase “on top of additional funds raised” should have read “on top of any additional funds which might be raised”. Otherwise the minutes were accepted as a true record and signed off.
Matters Arising
A977 Defects and Mitigation Measures: Covered under LDP Consultation item below.
Crook and Drum Growing Together: CCllr Duffy reported that the group is preparing for spring planting and planning fund-raising activities. Announcements of planned activities will be posted on the group’s Facebook page.
Powmill Bloom Group: CCllr Farquhar reported that a meeting was held with the local Police who have advised that the precautions against theft are as good as can be. Plans to plant 100 trees are afoot. It has been decided to abandon the idea of the Phone Box adoption. The group will have a fund-raising stall at 22nd April Farmer’s Market selling second hand books – all contributions welcome.
Blairingone War Memorial: At the site meeting on 14th February, it was agreed that the memorial could be moved, although probably at a higher cost than has previously been thought. Cllr Barnacle has sent information to a mason in order that an estimate can be prepared. The current owner of the property is willing to contribute £2000 towards the move. The currently proposed new location on the wall of the North extension to the cemetery is not strong enough and would need further reinforcement. CCllr Brown is investigating possible funding opportunities and has had an initial response from the War Memorials Trust, who aren’t able to fund the move unless it can be shown that access to the memorial would be prevented, however they may be able to support the wall strengthening if the memorial was to be moved.
Station Road Adoption: Cllr Barnacle reports that preparation of a minute of agreement is nearly complete, just needing final details of the contributors, and it can then be signed and the contract will be set.
Rumbling Bridge Hydro Community Group: CCllr Duffy reported that the group is working on its terms of reference and will soon conduct a community engagement exercise to establish what sort of projects should be funded. The group is in need of more volunteers.
LDP Public Consultation: There was a meeting at Crook of Devon Village Hall on 18th February which was attended by a large number of people, whose replies are currently being analysed by PKC’s planning department. Dealing with the areas in turn:
The proposal for Blairingone seems to be broadly welcomed by the community;
Rumbling Bridge – Mrs Johnstone described their proposed development of a restricted number of houses mostly relatively small in size. They would also provide some parking places for, and a footpath to, the Gorge. Christina Ritchie then told the meeting about a petition signed by the majority of the residents, opposing any development at all in Rumbling Bridge. Ms Ritchie also pointed out that there are already adequate car parking facilities and footpaths, so the planning gain offered by the proposed development is not needed. Cllr Barnacle noted that the existing paths are not ideally routed, and the car park is not complete. A number of other members of the community present expressed the opinion that the village does need its heart filling in. It was pointed out that an area of the village was nominated as “Village Settlement” in the 2004 plan in order to protect it, however this didn’t prevent the Care Home being approved under appeal;
Crook of Devon: The zoning proposal is to create a maximum of fifty houses on land adjacent to the Village Hall. Local opinions seem to be evenly split on the desirability of this.
For all the areas, it’s important that local residents should submit their own comments directly to PKC to enable them to get a complete picture of their views.
Additionally potential planning gains that may enable improvements to the A977 must be considered separately from considering whether developments are right for each area. This point was made by both Cllrs and others present.
Matters Arising With No Update Since Last Meeting
Crook Moss Traveller’s Site, Safer Route to School – Drum, Ivy Cottage Powmill, Crook Hall Bollards: No update.
New Business
Kinross to Crook of Devon Multi-use Track: TRACKS are preparing a funding application to support the next phase of this development. The CC approves of this proposal and will write a letter of support.
School Estate Review: PKC are currently planning “options appraisals” for various schools and Blairingone Primary school is included in the programme. Questions about this can be sent to ku.vog.ckp|secruosersce#ku.vog.ckp|secruosersce.
Community Council Business
Meetings Attended: None this month.
Councillors’ Reports
Mike Barnacle, Dave Cuthbert and Willie Robertson: Nothing not already covered above.
Planning Matters
17/00160/FLL Alterations and formation of vehicular access, Blairingone Church, Main Street, Blairingone, Dollar, FK14 7NY. No CC comment.
Correspondence: All the correspondence was available for viewing: The bridge over the River Devon on the A91 at Yetts of Muckhart will be closed for two weeks from Monday 20th March.
PKC are seeking comments on gritting and snow clearing – by 21st March to ku.vog.ckp|PMR_CKP#ku.vog.ckp|PMR_CKP.
Decisions for allocation of funds from the Local Action Partnership will be decided by public vote at the Kinross Farmer’s Market on 22nd April.
The Scottish Government are seeking opinions on the future of the Scottish Planning System – the consultation document is at: https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/planning-architecture/a-consultation-on-the-future-of-planning/ comments can be made until 4th April.
AOCB: Dog Waste in Crook of Devon – a MoP has reported this to the CC. CCllr Duffy has replied with suggestions that were found to be found successful in other places.
Draft Agenda for Next CC Meeting
Welcome and Apologies, Declarations of Interest, Community Policing, Minutes of last meeting.
Matters arising: A977 Mitigation, Crook and Drum Growing Together, Powmill in Bloom, Blairingone War Memorial, Station Road Adoption, Rumbling Bridge Hydro Community Benefit, LDP Public Consultation.
Community Councillors: Meetings Attended, PKC Councillors’ Reports, Planning, Correspondence, AOCB
Next Meeting: Tuesday 4th April 2017 7:30 pm
Carnbo Village Hall
All Welcome
