Draft Minutes Meeting Fossoway and District Community Council
Tuesday 2nd October 2012, Blairingone Primary School
Attending: S Morrison, A Lavery, K Borthwick, Rod Paterson, Cllr M Barnacle, Cllr Joe Giacopazzi, Cllr D Cuthbert and 8 Members of the Public (MoP).
Apologies: S Anderson, A Cheape, T Duffy-Wigman , Cllr W Robertson.
Declarations of interest: None
Community policing:
Community police officer reports: Speeding checks at Carnbo and Rumbling Bridge have resulted in offences being detected; No further reports of problems at Seamab; House break-in at Blairingone – red diesel stolen - being investigated. Operation Tupelo detected 40 driving offences (mainly speeding and mobile phone use); Community Tasking and Co-ordination Groups (CTAC) have been established in various areas in Perth and Kinross to enable PKC, Police, Fire and Rescue to work jointly; Community Officers are all now live on Twitter – please feel free to “follow” them! Discussion about whether there are adequate 30mph signs on entry to Rumbling Bridge from Naemoor Road – Cllr Barnacle will ask Roads department to investigate. No news yet about Community Speed Check programme.
Minutes of the previous meeting: There were no amendments so the minutes were signed off.
Matters arising:
• Blairingone War Memorial: Alastair reports that the application is being processed. Cllr Barnacle will check its progress.
• Crook of Devon Church Car Park: Alastair reports that it has gone to the Committee last week and was passed. Cllr Barnacle reports that there was discussion about maintenance of access lane, and it was agreed that a height restricting barrier would be installed. It would probably be appropriate to erect a “no overnight parking” sign.
• Signposting Core Paths and Rights of Way: Cllr Cuthbert has asked Dave Stubbs to progress, no news.
• Snowie Wood Chip Plant at Blairingone: Alastair reports that Blairingone residents have written objecting to the scale of the development. The application is still being processed as a normal, not a large scale application. Cllr Barnacle reports that because the Planning department see the two applications as separate, then it isn’t treated as a major application. Cllr Barnacle suggests that the Councillors approach the Planning Department and recommend that the two applications should be combined.
• Travellers’ Site Crook of Devon: Sandy reports that the formal complaint and letter have been submitted. As yet, no acknowledgements have been received, although Sandy was told that they had been sent. It appears that the letters were treated as comments on a planning application rather than a complaint. Sandy has now received email copies of the responses, although they have still not been received as letters. An article has been published by The Courier based on letters sent and received.
• There were extensive discussions about the PKC planning process between the CC, Councillors and MoP present following the reports of the above planning applications. The process by which objection letters were selected for inclusion in the report to Committee seems to be particularly unclear – the meeting assumed there must be some discussion amongst the planners to achieve this – is it recorded? A MoP present who had submitted a Freedom of Information Request about a previous planning application reported that very little information was received – are internal memos and emails kept? It was generally agreed that there was substantial dissatisfaction with the PKC Planning Process.
• Catering Kiosk at Powmill application has been passed – Considerable concern was raised by the Community about the significant road traffic risks created by use of this site.
CC Business: No Meetings attended this month.
Councillors’ reports:
Cllr Cuthbert: No plans to dispose of Crook of Devon Football Pitch; Rumbling Bridge and Balado speed warning signs are now fixed; Reporting Crook Moss contaminated land to Environmental Services has not resulted in any action.
Cllr Giacopazzi: Glendevon Quarry proposal has been deferred until November due to views from adjoining councils, road traffic, and environmental issues – further reports to be prepared.
Cllr Barnacle: U213 Passing places – sent letter of complaint to Jim Valentine about the attitude of Engineer – Also mentioned repairs to same road to alleviate flooding, which were deferred due to road closure; Rumbling Bridge – Thomson Houses development planning application was deferred to resolve issue about affordable housing; Neighbour Notification (Cllr Robertson progressing) – no movement on the 20 metre rule, however possible changes to guidelines for Wind Farm notification may happen. Cllr Giacopazzi notes that the rule that only one comment may be made per household could be rescinded; it appears that consultations by Communities about Local Plan are not going to have much effect.
Planning:
12/01559/FLL. Formation of a Horse Arena. Cairnfold House, Blairingone, Dollar, FK14 7ND.
Recommendation: No Community Council comment
12/01743/FLL. Variation of condition 1 (08/00574/FLL Erection of three dwelling houses), Land to the North of Main Street Blairingone. This application is for a one year extension to the time period of 08/00574/FLL, 3 houses North of Main Street Blairingone. This site has a long planning history, from 2000, with permission granted in 2008. The CC did not object at the time and its recommendations were included in the approved plan.
Recommendation: No Community Council comment
Correspondence: Full list was available; however upcoming events of interest are as follows:
• Make a difference day – Sat 27th October Loch Leven Community Campus.
• Tayside Community Action for Wildlife Seminar – Sat 1st December Battleby Centre, Perth.
• Kinross-shires got Tallent (U18) – Fri 16th Nov Loch Leven Community Campus.
AOCB: None.
Draft Agenda for Next CC Meeting
• Welcome and apologies
• Declarations of interest
• Minute of last meeting
• Matters arising
• Community Council Business
• Councillors’ reports
• Planning applications
• Correspondence
• AOCB
Next Meeting: Tuesday 6th November, 7:30 pm
Moubray Hall, Powmill
All welcome!
