Issue - meetings

There were no issues raised by Community Councils.

Oban Community Council

Marri Malloy from Oban Community Council raised a concern in regard to Community Councils not hearing enough information about local issues in the area such as Rockfield, Kilbowie and new Oban High School.  She hoped that the new Area Governance Review for Community Planning Groups would resolve this issue. 

It was agreed that the Head of Facility Services would be invited to the next Community Planning Group meeting in December to give the Group a presentation on the current situation with new Oban High School.

Ardhattan Community Council

Margaret Adams from Ardhattan Community Council advised the Group that she is still anxious about the safe route to school for children from Lochnell Primary School and that she still awaits a report from the Technical Officer for Traffic/Development.

She asked the Group if the Community Payback position has been filled yet within the Council and Councillor Elaine Robertson advised that there was a meeting last week where this situation was highlighted and she confirmed that the post has gone out to advert and is on the Community Council websites.

Margaret updated the Group on the current position with Benderloch Turning Circle and advised that they are currently looking into funding and have had discussions with Transport Scotland.

• Update on Dog Fouling

The Group had a discussion on the various issues raised by Community Councils which were discussed at their Caucus meeting on Wednesday 13^th August.

Decision

1.      The Amenity Services Manager agreed to address all issues raised by the Bute and Cowal Caucus at their meeting on 12^th November; and

2.      The Area Governance Manager agreed to circulate details of community service information which came to a previous Community Planning Group meeting.

Marri Malloy of Oban Community Council raised the issue of the article that appeared in the Oban Times a couple of weeks ago about Costa Coffee coming to Oban. She is extremely disappointed in the way in which the matter was reported by the Oban Times as it did not properly reflect the way in which it was dealt with by the Community Council at their meeting.

• Car Parking
• Dog Fouling
• Public Toilets
• Transport A83

Max Barr outlined the recent discussion held at  the Caucus of Community Councils regarding the feeling that the CPG meetings were not progressing issues raised by Community Councils effectively, and noted that he had written to the Chief Executive to this effect and was awaiting her response.

Car Parking

The caucus raised an issue about car parking which was discussed at the last Community Planning Group meeting.  The Chair advised that De-Criminalisation of Parking came into effect on 12^th May and Mr. Barr asked that a consultation event is held with communities later this year as parking policy for the area is developed in light of the outcome of DPE.

Dog Fouling

It was noted that this item is coming to the September Business Day as the new Warden’s had only taken up their post on 12^th May, update on that iscvusison will be provided to the September CPG meeting.

Public Toilets

The Area Governance Manager agreed to contact the Roads Performance Manager and ask him to circulate an update on the signage of public toilets.

Transport A83

This item was covered at item 5(c) of this minute when Jonny Moran from Transport Scotland was present.

Mr Barr also aksed a question regarding the apparent costs of waste disposal at Dalinlongart, it was agreed that this information would be forwarded by the Amenity Services Manager to Mr Barr.