Station Road, Blanefield will close from its junction with the A81 (Glasgow Road, Blanefield) to its junction with the A809 from 0800 hours on SUNDAY 10-5-20 until 1800 hours on TUESDAY 12-5-20 to facilitate BT Broadband Upgrading works. Access for emergency services will be maintained Please note that this is a change to the previously advertised dates of 18 – 20-5-20 which were advertised in the Stirling Observer on 1-5-20.Alternative Route: via A81, B834, A809 and vice versa.A COPY of the Order can be provided by e-mailing traffic@stirling.gov.uk.www.stirling.gov.uk or www.tellmescotland.gov.uk
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Community Council meetings suspended due to Coronavirus.
Community council meetings across Stirling District are cancelled until further notice.
However, your community councillors are of course in touch with one another and can be reached by email to contact@strathblanecc.org.uk
Stirling Council information and services can be contacted through their website at www.stirling.gov.uk/
Our Stirling councillors (“elected members”) are:
Community Council Meeting 2 September 2019
The next meeting of Strathblane Community Council will be on Monday 2nd September 2019 at 7.30pm in the Village Club.
AGENDA
1. Welcome from the Chair and declarations of interest
2. Co-option of new member
3. Police report
4. Minutes of June meeting and Matters Arising
5. Invasive Species – Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust
6. Feedback from Neighbourhoods of Care
7. Telephone boxes
8. Elected Member’s Report
9. Planning and Licensing
10. Community Comments
11. Finance
12. Correspondence
13. AOB
14. Date of next meeting Monday 7th October 2019, in the Village Club
Contact us at contact@strathblanecc.org.uk . Also on our website
www.strathblanecc.org.uk Telephone numbers for Community Councillors are on the notice boards, in the library and in the Blane Valley Bulletin.
Gladman planning application for Campsie Road: Second appeal under way.
The new appeal is under way with reference PPA-390-2060-1. The new Reporter invited those who had made submissions to the original appeal to comment whether anything has changed in the meantime, and the Community Council has provided a response .
Particularly in light of the flash floods experienced on 31 July 2019, the concerns about flooding that were raised in our original objection appear even more pertinent.
More background is on our website here.
16 weeks road closure between Mugdock and Milngavie
Mugdock Road between Mugdock and Milngavie is closed for 16 weeks from 17 June. This is to allow a new pipeline to link Burncrooks reservoir to the Milngavie water treatment works, in advance of closing the Burncrooks treatment works. Initially the road closure is to avoid the public coming into contact with the heavy plant being assembled to complete the project, but in time a whole section of the road is being dug up to lay the pipes. Drumclog car park is closed and walkers and cyclists are being told to avoid the route as well.
See attached map for the pipeline route. For further information go to the Scottish Water website here. Scottish Water contact names are available on the updates under “Burncrooks – Scottish Water”.
The contact for the sub-contractor construction team is:
Joanne Craig, Customer Manager
Caledonia Water Alliance
Phone: 0141 212 5942
Mobile: 07921 308 483
E-Mail : joanne.craig@caledoniawater.com
Gladman WIN second bite at appeal…
What feels like ages ago, Gladman Developments applied to build houses in the field on Campsie Road, and to bump the proposed cemetery extension further away from the village. The planning application was rejected by Stirling; an appeal to the Scottish Ministers was rejected by their Reporter, BUT Gladman made an appeal to the Court of Session, whose decision was issued on 14 June 2019.
The Court of Session has quashed the appeal decision, raising the prospect that the development may go ahead. The court’s decision was based on a very narrow technicality about how housing land supply should be calculated, but their lordships decided this renders the whole of the Reporter’s decision invalid.
The good news is that this court decision is just a limited “judicial review” criticising the appeal decision process. It does not mean Gladman automatically get their planning permission, or that the Reporter got the wrong result.
A copy of the Court of Session decision is here in which we have highlighted some relevant parts. According to the court, the main issue the Reporter had to decide was whether Stirling used the correct method to calculate their housing land supply. The court ruled that the Reporter had not examined the question properly. Furthermore they say that, because a different land supply calculation could tip the balance of all considerations, they must quash the whole decision.
What it does mean is that the appeal must be decided again by a Reporter at the DPEA and Scottish Ministers, taking more care to consider all relevant issues. The new Reporter will decide whether to call for new evidence, and the Community Council will input if there is an opportunity.
For all the reasons that were endorsed by the first Reporter, we would hope that the appeal will be rejected again.
Housing that meets the needs of our community is one thing, but proposals like this one put the interests of the developers and landowners above all else.
VOTING is OPEN until Sunday 23rd June. Your Stirling: You Decide – participate in council budgeting!
Your Stirling: You Decide gives local people a direct say in how a portion of their budget is spent. For the Forth and Endrick ward, 36 voting proposals have been made out of the ideas submitted by the public. Residents now have the chance to vote.
VOTING IS LIVE here.
You MUST vote for EXACTLY 5 PROPOSALS or your vote won’t be counted. (We don’t make the rules…).
As it happens, there are exactly 5 proposals directly affecting Strathblane/Blanefield, which we have highlighted in the list here. Even if you don’t want to vote for all of those, there are worthy proposals for the other villages in the area.
There is a computer and help at the library for anyone who does not use the internet themselves. Share the link and get your friends and neighbours joining in.
Gladman WIN at Court of Session
What feels like ages ago, Gladman Developments applied to build houses in the field on Campsie Road, and to bump the proposed cemetery extension further away from the village. The planning application was rejected; an appeal to the Scottish Ministers was rejected, BUT Gladman made an appeal to the Court of Session, whose decision was issued on 14 June 2019.
The Court of Session has just quashed the appeal decision, raising the prospect that the development will go ahead. The court’s decision was based on a very narrow technicality about how housing land supply should be calculated, but their lordships decided this renders the whole of the DPEA decision invalid.
A copy of the Court of Session decision is here in which we have highlighted some relevant parts. According to the court, the sole issue considered by the Reporter was whether Stirling used the correct method to calculate their housing land supply. They don’t even say whether Stirling did or didn’t use the correct method: they merely find that the Reporter did not examine the question properly. Furthermore they say that, regardless of other reasons why the Gladman proposal should be rejected, the only issue in the appeal was the land supply calculation, and they must quash the whole decision.
AGM and June Meeting
7.30pm on 10 June 2019, Village Club, Blanefield
Agenda for the AGM of Strathblane Community Council and the June ordinary meeting are online at https://strathblanecc.org.uk/meetings/
The agenda for the regular meeting, following the AGM, is
1. Welcome from the Chair and declarations of interest
2. Police report
3. Minutes of April meeting and Matters Arising
4. Invasive Species – Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust
5. SCDT Issues
6. Your Stirling, You Decide
7. Elected Member’s Report
8. Planning and Licensing
9. Community Comments
10. Finance
11. Correspondence
12. AOB
Repairs to Jenny’s Glen Bridge
Aaron Moison, Stirling Council’s Engineer (Bridge Officer) writes:
On Monday 27th May we will be installing temporary 3 way traffic lights at the junction of A81 Glasgow Road and B821 Station Road for repair works to Jenny’s Glen Bridge.
These works are expected to take 4 weeks and will involve us dismantling a large section of the downstream masonry to allow us to rebuild a historic bulge that has recently shown movement. The downstream footpath will also need to be excavated to prevent a collapse during our works.
I have attached a location plan for convenience. Signage to give advance notice to road users should be in place this evening.