Stonehouse Community Council

Reconstituted 29th February 2000 following changes to existing scheme for Community Councils

Chairman: George Smith
Secretary: Robert Freel

Where: The Public Institute,

When: Meetings are normally scheduled for the third Monday of the Month starting at 7.30pm. (Members meeting at 7.00pm)

Dates for 2006 :
16th January 2006
20th February 2006
20th March 2006
10th April 2006
15th May 2006
19th June 2006
21st August 2006
18th September 2006
10th October 2006
20th November 2006
18th December 2006

Contact Information

All correspondence should be addressed to the secretary
SECRETARY: ROBERT FREEL, 75 LOCKHART STREET, STONEHOUSE, ML9 3LX

Minutes of Last Meeting

MINUTES OF MEETING 20/3/06

1. MEMBERS PRESENT & APOLOGIES
G. Smith (GS), R. Freel (RF), A. Paterson (AP), W Mackie (WM). McBain (MMcB),
B. Craw (BC), M. Casey (MC), G McLaren (G McL) R Craig (RC) Councillors J Burns and I McInnes and members of the public as detailed in the sederant
Paul Fagan: Re-generation Project.
Apologies - W McMurtie (Received by Email)

2. PREVIOUS MINUTES

Distributed to the floor and were accepted

Regeneration Team Larkhall & surrounding Area
Chair intimated that it was customary to start with guest speaker and handed over to Paul Fagan (Project Manager) for Larkhall and surrounding areas regeneration team.
Paul gave an overview of his teams remit and provided an update on the recent Re-Generation area open minds meeting which was held at Stonehouse Primary on the 25th February 2006.
Re-Generation monies were pre-dominantly for areas which had been identified as being in most deprived areas of Scotland using the Post code Data values which was a Scottish Executive measure. Areas within Larkhall namely Canderside, Hareleshill and Ashgillhead fell into this category and were allocated a pot of money from the Scottish Executive. South Lanarkshire Council also added to this pot to include surrounding areas.
The open minds meeting was well attended and raised issues concerning local community hall provision, safety, village pride, youth activities and transport. These were all prioritised by a voting procedure by those present at the meeting.
Young people's attendance at this meeting was low and it is the intention to generate an open minds event for just young people.
The next steps for the regeneration team was to facilitate dialogue between the community and departments of the council to highlight what was of concern and to look for funding.

Chair then asked for question from those present and a series of Questions were put to Paul on the operation and funding of the re-generation team.

Following the questions and answer session Chair thanked Paul for attending the meeting

3. BUSINESS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MINUTES

· Would be covered under the correspondence issues

4. CORRESPONDANCE
Secretary RF intimated that the correspondence list issued with the agenda gave an outline of all the correspondence received and sent during the month. Anyone wishing to examine any of the correspondence to see secretary at the end of the meeting

· Letter of response from SLC on pavement parking. This states that it is an enforcement issue contrary to what police had advised.
· A meeting of South Lanarkshire Public Partnership was being held on 22-03-2006. M McMain would check her diary re-attendance.

· Planning application Notifications received were Telephone mast at Watstone Farm, Planning application approval for 11 new street 6 units.
· Scottish Executive consultation paper on Age and Experience. M Casey will look at.
· SLC Local Transport Strategy. All members had received a copy and were asked to provide comment to Secretary by first week in April.
· Stonehouse Development Trust Meeting invitation.

5. POLICE
· Nobody in attendance, Chair would write regards issues arising.

6. SLC
6.1 Roads
· The traffic calming has STILL not started in the village but was expected to start in 10 days. Work had started at the Pelican Crossing
· There followed a discussion on the programme of traffic calming and village centre work.

6.2 Local Plan

· Secretary had submitted comment on the pressure for change sites

7. HEALTH
· Members will attempt attend meeting at Lanark.

8. UTILITIES
· Electricity - None
· Water - Secretary had written to SW regards attendance and will write again.
· Gas - None

9. TRANSPORT

· SLC local transport strategy requires comment. The Stonehouse bypass land will be retained but any works would be development led. Secretary to compile report.

10. REPORTS
Councillors Burns and McInnes gave an update. The fencing and locking off the lane between Sidehead and Tilework Park would be going ahead after months of debate. Keys to be held by various parties. On going test bores regards community hall location results were expected within 10 days.

11. A.O.C.B

Next meeting is on the 10/04/06 one week earlier than normal and will be held in the Public Institute.

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