Draft Minutes Fossoway and District Community Council
9th January 2018, Fossoway Primary School
Attending: Community Cllrs Cameron Brown, Jennifer Donachie, Trudy Duffy, Carol Farquhar and Graham Pye; P&K Cllrs Mike Barnacle and Richard Watters; 26 Members of the Public (MoP); PKC Officers Lachlan MacLean, Daryl McKeown & Frank Mills
Apologies: P&K Cllrs Willie Robertson and Callum Purves; CCllr Angus Cheape
Declarations of Interest: None.
Police report: Unfortunately no Officer was able to be present at the meeting. There were no incidents to note in our area in the last month from the Commander’s Reports received via Perth and Kinross Community Watch.
Minutes of the previous meeting: The minutes were signed off without amendment.
Matters Arising
A977 Defects and Mitigation: £540,000 budget has been obtained by local Councillors. There was a meeting on 8th December where local Councillors were briefed on the costs of their preferred options. PKC has analysed accident statistics, driven the route in various conditions and consulted other parties. Traffic counts were performed at various locations during a week in September 2017. An inventory of street furniture was also undertaken. Mr MacLean described various proposals for improvements. Local Councillors think that the priorities should be as follows:
1. A977/B9097 Realignment.
2. A977/Saline Road in Blairingone Signalisation.
3. A977/School Road in Crook of Devon.
4. Signing and Bollard Strategy for A977.
5. Replacement of Vehicle Activated Signs.
6. Upgrade of Turning Vehicle signs to include turning vehicle monitoring at Rumbling Bridge and both vehicle and pedestrian monitoring at East Balado.
7. Installation of automatic traffic counters at Balado straight and between Powmill and Rumbling Bridge to collect traffic numbers and speed throughout the year, including the class of vehicle.
8. Solar studs at various locations.
9. Gateway features (with potential for In-Bloom Groups to enhance same.)
Local residents will be given opportunities to discuss the proposals in more detail and decide which ones should be implemented. Consultation events will be held in various locations along the A977 at places and times to be agreed – the CC will publish the details as soon as they are known.
The CC thanked the Local Councillors for their tireless efforts to obtain the budget for these measures, and thanked Mr MacLean and his colleagues for the work done in preparing these proposals.
A MoP asked if any speed limits would be reduced as part of this project – if the Drum signalisation takes place then the 30mph limit would be extended to cover that site. In addition PKC is reviewing the application of 20mph village limits throughout the county.
Hydro Scheme: CCllr Duffy told the meeting that the data from the Community Survey has been analysed and there are several clear messages. In the next few months the first grants will be made.
There will be an open meeting in Crook of Devon Village Hall at 2pm on 20th January to launch the scheme and discuss the results of the survey, in order to decide how the money should be used – everyone is welcome to attend.
Blairingone Lambhill Site: The application will be discussed at the Development Management Committee on 17th January. There were numerous comments from the residents present about the vagueness of the current application which is for storage and distribution with no details about what material is due to be handled there. Blairingone residents will choose someone to speak at the meeting, and a number of them plan to attend. The CC will ask Cllr Purves, who is a local Councillor, but not on the DMC, to speak on behalf of the residents, and the CC also plan to speak at the meeting.
LDP2 Draft: The document is now out for consultation and there are various drop-in sessions between now and the 1st February to view the documents and discuss the proposals. Comments can still be made.
Blairingone School Estate Transformation: Cllr Purves was unable to attend the meeting, but sent the following information: The current scoping exercise will not involve Cleish as it does not directly border the Blairingone catchment area and it will therefore be dealt with in the second phase of the review.
Email was used as the primary method of contact for parents and carers to issue the survey but ECS said that any parent who did not have an e-mail address would be contacted by other means. The contact details were primarily obtained from the schools.
In addition, given the scoping exercise and to allow extra time for the consideration of submissions to the consultation, the Blairingone options appraisal is likely to come before the Lifelong Learning Committee in March rather than January as previously indicated. The decision has also been taken to dedicate a committee meeting to a few schools at a time rather than take them all in one go, which will allow for greater scrutiny of the proposals.
Matters Arising With No Update Since Last Meeting
Crook of Devon and Drum Growing Together, Powmill in Bloom, Crook Moss Travellers Site, Ivy Cottage Powmill, Blairingone War Memorial, Fossoway Area Public Transport, DRT and B9097.
New Business
Naemoor Road Roadworks: Cllr Barnacle explained the proposal to move the weight restriction signs further north, clearing vegetation to improve their visibility and adding white lines just before the bridge to show that southbound traffic should give way to oncoming traffic.
Community Council Business
Meetings Attended: None this month.
P&K Councillors’ Reports
Richard Watters: Budget discussions are in full swing at the moment, there is a survey on the website (http://www.pkc.gov.uk/budget) to allow people to say what things they think are important – Cllr Watters stressed how useful this sort of information is; the survey is open until 4th February.
The Action Partnership still has about £16.5k to distribute, and are seeking three further members to join the committee to help decide how to allocate the funds. The Better Place to Live Fair on 3rd March will allow communities to present suggestions for grant allocation which will be voted on by attendees.
Mike Barnacle: The council has decided to conduct a review of local decision making. Cllr Barnacle would like to see devolved committees for areas like Planning, and will be suggesting this is included in the discussion.
Cllr Barnacle recommended that a Paths Group could be setup in this area, which would then have access to funds for local projects.
Cllr Barnacle has arranged for an area of ground to be fenced to act as a car park in Waulkmill.
A MoP asked about the state of the A91 in Carnbo, which has acquired a number of large potholes during the recent weather, even though the major work done last year was supposed to have made the surface more robust. The problem appears to be that the surface water is still not being properly cleared. Cllr Barnacle undertook to investigate this.
Planning Matters – New Applications
17/02107/FLL Alterations and installation of a flue, Fir Cottage, Drum.
No CC comment.
17/02050/FLL Erection of replacement garage with ancillary accommodation, Thimblewell Cottage, Powmill.
No CC comment.
17/02189/FLL Erection of a dwelling house, Land 50 metres north of Mellock House, Fossoway.
No CC Comment.
17/02068/FLL Erection of an equestrian store at land south-east of An Darach, Fossoway.
No CC comment.
Correspondence: All the correspondence was available for viewing: Perth and Kinross Planning Investigation Group (PIGS…) sent a copy of their press release which has been posted on the CC’s Facebook page.
AOCB: None this month.
Draft Agenda for Next CC Meeting
Welcome and Apologies, Declarations of Interest, Community Policing, Minutes of last meeting.
Matters arising: A977 Mitigation, Hydro Scheme, Blairingone Lambhill Site, LDP2 Draft, Fossoway Area Transport, Crook & Drum Growing Together, Powmill in Bloom.
Community Councillors: Meetings Attended, PKC Councillors’ Reports, Planning, Correspondence, AOCB
Next Meeting: Tuesday 6th February 2018 7:30 pm
Blairingone Primary School
All Welcome
