Draft Minutes Fossoway and District Community Council
5th December 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, Callum Purves, Willie Robertson and Richard Watters; 13 Members of the Public (MoP).
Apologies: None.
Declarations of Interest: CCllr Cheape declared an interest in the LDP2 discussion.
Police report: Unfortunately no Officer was able to be present at the meeting. There was one incident to note in our area in the last month from the Commander’s Reports received via Perth and Kinross Community Watch: Between 7.15 pm and 10.25 pm on Thursday 9th November 2017, an Ifor Williams GX84 ramp trailer was stolen from outside a property on the A823 in the area of Blairhill, Rumbling Bridge.
Minutes of the previous meeting: The minutes were signed off without amendment.
Matters Arising
Blairingone School: Cllr Purves had emailed Cllr Caroline Shiers, the Convenor of PKC’s Lifelong Learning Committee, raising concerns about the process not being done in a “joined up way”. Cllr Shiers assured Cllr Purves that further consultation can still take place. CCllr Duffy had previously emailed Michelle Ridgway of PKC expressing the concerns raised during the last CC meeting about the information provided during the consultation exercise and asked for the consultation to be repeated before the comments were published. Carol Taylor, PKC Service Manager, replied that the analysis of the comments were nearly ready and would be published as planned, which the CC received on 29th November. The results were strongly in favour of Option 4, extend the catchment area. Consequently PKC are sending surveys to parents of potential pupils both locally and in a widened catchment to see what their opinions would be, and although this is not a statutory requirement, the results of that survey will be used as part of the decision making process. Cllr Barnacle added that he suggested at the consultation exercise that the catchment review should be further widened to include Cleish. Cllr Purves agreed that all options should be considered. MoP was concerned that the survey of potential pupils is going to be only online and wonders how the list of parents might be reliably determined in order to be properly representative – Cllr Purves undertook to look into that.
Blairingone Lambhill Site: The applicant’s agent has submitted a new traffic report which was not thought to be very accurate by local residents, and it has elicited a number of objections from them. Cllr Purves has arranged for a motion (S5M-09224 – https://tinyurl.com/y7gbsgaf) to be raised in the Scottish Parliament to address the long running problems experienced by Blairingone residents. Local Councillors and a member of PKC’s planning team recently made a visit to the site, and noted that no vehicle movements took place during their visit, but they were not allowed permission to enter the “Cow Barn”. Cllr Robertson reported that the top area is clearly being used for industrial purposes, and is definitely not an agricultural site. John Anderson emphasised that it’s very important for local residents to continue to enter objections.
LDP2 Draft: The draft plan was published on 1st December, and comments may be made until 2nd February 2018. Cllr Barnacle has published some details from the plan in the Kinross Newsletter, and mentioned his concerns about policies on Gypsy Travellers and Zoning. Local Councillors included amendments to add the field beside the Village Hall in Crook of Devon as a mixed use site and the site next to the care home in Rumbling Bridge as principally open space. There is no change to the settlement boundary in Powmill, but there are proposals to investigate possible options for LDP3.
Cllr Barnacle intends to distribute an open letter on the addition of the Crook of Devon site, and emphasised that the review meeting at LLCC on 10th January will be important to attend. Cllr Barnacle also stressed that there is still time for everyone to comment on included items and add anything thought to be missed.
Cllr Robertson noted that the plan does not allow for any more development in Balado until a sewage connection is available.
Comments on the plan can be made by post, email to ku.vog.ckp|noitatlusnoCPDL#ku.vog.ckp|noitatlusnoCPDL, but Cllr Watters strongly recommended use of the new “Interactive Story Map” tool to navigate LDP2, which can be accessed via http://www.pkc.gov.uk/ProposedLDP2. Cllr Purves noted that the Tay Plan specifies that the majority of development should to be in bigger settlements, and hence why we have smaller proposals locally. The minimum and maximum number of houses for each site are now included in plan rather than density as before, which should be much clearer.
CCllr Duffy attended an LDP2 consultation meeting at LLCC on 28th November and asked what guarantees the public had that the details of the plan would be followed – the planner said that small housing would be enforced in our area.
A MoP complained that the local Councillors have included the Crook of Devon development even though it didn’t seem to have the support of the local residents. Cllr Barnacle replied that there were 60 people at the last CC meeting where this was discussed, and he had sent out 350 letters. In response 13 supportive comments were received with eight respondents against. He also noted that all four local councillors supported the amendment. Cllr Robertson said that sometimes decisions have to be made for the benefit of the wider community, especially those who would like to move to the area if only there were suitable houses, and reminds us that people can still comment on LDP2.
B9097 Update: The CC have received a copy of a letter from Chic Haggart, PKC Traffic & Network Manager, to be sent to local residents, proposing to introduce a 40mph speed limit on the B9097 at Drum from the A977 to the junction with the U241. CCllr Duffy asked the Community present for their opinions. There was support, but concern whether it would be enforced? Cllr Robertson said that Community Police are doing speed checks and will carry out checks on request. MoP asked if they could do checks on the A977, especially by Blairingone School (during opening hours) and in the vicinity of the Powmill Milk Bar – Cllr Robertson agreed to request these.
Fossoway Pre-School: Have premises beside Moubray Hall, they are experiencing some financial difficulties, and are seeking grants or other ways to support the running costs of this valuable resource for the community. Cllr Robertson suggested that the Kinross Newsletter fund might be able to help.
A977 Mitigation: There will be a meeting on 8th December where local Councillors will be briefed on the costs of their preferred options, and a consultation document will then be issued.
Fossoway Area Public Transport: There needs to be a robust way of recording the availability and any non availability of the DRT service. In the interim, any problems should be reported to the local Councillors. Cllr Robertson reported that PKC are preparing a consultation on DRT which should have the effect of creating a logging system.
Hydro Scheme: The public consultation is now closed, with about 25% replies received, and they are now being analysed. Hugh Wallace said that he is hopeful that £50-60K of extra money will shortly be provided to the scheme from unused contingency funds.
Matters Arising With No Update Since Last Meeting:
Crook Moss Travellers Site, Powmill in Bloom, Crook of Devon and Drum Growing Together, Ivy Cottage Powmill, Blairingone War Memorial.
New Business: Cllr Robertson reminded the meeting that the Local Action Partnerships have quite a lot of money to spend, and the bidding process for the next round of funding is just about to start. The Kinross Newsletter has details of how to get involved.
Community Council Business
Meetings Attended: CCllr Duffy attended an LDP2 Consultation event as described above.
CCllr Farquhar was to have attended a meeting of the Disability and Additional Sports Need Workshop of the Sports Hub which unfortunately was postponed. The Sports Hub members expressed disappointment about lack of young people joining sports clubs. The 2km run is very successful, but they are still looking for a venue for the 5km run.
CCllr Cheape attended a meeting of the Kinross-shire fund, and grants were made to organisations outside Fossoway – however he noted that they have quite a lot of money to be distributed.
P&K Councillors’ Reports
Mike Barnacle: Cllr Barnacle and Cllr McDade (Independent) are proposing a motion to PKC about the RBS bank branch closures.
Willie Robertson: PKC’s annual budget process just being started. There is currently a £3m shortage even with savings already made, so it’s going to be a difficult process, with unwelcome cuts likely to be proposed.
Callum Purves: Is a Budget Review Group member, and noted that because some statutory services, e.g. schools, can’t be reduced, the impact on other areas of the budget will be worse.
Richard Watters: Nothing not already covered.
Planning Matters
17/01818/FLL Erection of a dwelling house at land 50 metres north of Mellock House, Fossoway
CC object on grounds of excessive size of proposed house.
17/02015/FLL Siting of static caravan for use as staff accommodation for a temporary period (in retrospect) at land 10 metres north of Lambhill, Blairingone
CC object on grounds that there is no evidence to support the need for a resident worker.
17/02037/IPL Erection of a dwelling house (in principle) at Land 400 metres north-west of Rivendell, Blairingone
No CC comment.
17/01902/FLL Erection of 2no. wind turbines and associated works at land south-east of Wharlawhill Farm, Carnbo, Kinross, KY13 0NZ.
Application received last month, and although the CC did not formally object, at Cllr Barnacle’s suggestion, the CC will confirm their normal policy to the officer responsible for this case, i.e. objecting to all wind turbine applications until there is a coherent plan from PKC.
Correspondence: All the correspondence was available for viewing: Luke Graham MP for Ochil and South Perthshire is conducting a survey into the impact of migrant workers on businesses in this area following Brexit. If you would like to take part in this survey, please contact ku.tnemailrap|nostrebor.divad#ku.tnemailrap|nostrebor.divad to get a copy.
AOCB: CCllr Duffy passed on a report that 60,000 people in Scotland will have Xmas on their own – so if you have such a neighbour, please drop in on them.
MoP asks what happens when bins are not collected due to bad weather, can you then leave extra next time? Cllr Purves asked MoPs to tell them when bins are not collected and what happens as a result.
Draft Agenda for Next CC Meeting
Welcome and Apologies, Declarations of Interest, Community Policing, Minutes of last meeting.
Matters arising: Blairingone School, Lambhill Site, LDP2 Draft, Zoning, A977 Mitigation, Fossoway Area Transport, Hydro Scheme, Crook & Drum Growing Together, Powmill in Bloom.
Community Councillors: Meetings Attended, PKC Councillors’ Reports, Planning, Correspondence, AOCB
Next Meeting: Tuesday 9th January 2018 7:30 pm
NOT 2nd January!!
Fossoway Primary School
All Welcome
