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next meeting of Cambusbarron Community Council

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 18 August 2008

next meeting of Cambusbarron Community Council is on Tuesday 16th September

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Cambusbarron Local Issues

By Ian Kerr, a community member, on 18 August 2008

Can Cambusbarron Community Council please arrange to contact Stirling Council Planning/Streetscape ASAP to seek info about the Persimmons site regarding lack of Street Sweeping of the dust and mud from work vehicles outside the site and adjoining road, or seek extra sweeping by Stirling Council Streetscape? Also can you seek advice from Countryside Services regarding the removal of one of the large metal seat/benches from our Quarry Footpath just up from the Quarry road Gate, I assume the young ones have ripped it out and carried it further up the hill into the Quarry, how do we set about relocating it back to its original position?

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£35,000 ANNUALLY FOR THREE CENTRAL SCOTLAND COMMUNITIES

By The Scottish Community Foundation, a community member, on 23 June 2008

£35,000 ANNUALLY FOR THREE CENTRAL SCOTLAND COMMUNITIES Provided by the Earlsburn Windfarm Community Benefit Fund, local communities Cambusbarron, Carron Valley and Denny and District are set to receive an annual award of £35,000 towards community improvements. The fund is provided by windfarm developers Falck, through their subsidiary Earlsburn Wind Energy Limited. An advisory panel – made up of representatives from Cambusbarron, Carron Valley and Denny and District - has been established to identify where the money will be best spent, ensuring the funding has the most significant impact. Following a recent meeting of the advisory panel, five projects have been identified to receive a grant from the fund. Among the successful applicants was the Carronvale Tenants’ and Residents’ Association in Denny and District. It was awarded £2,403 towards the launch of the Green Dog Walkers’ Project. The project encourages responsible dog ownership, including cleaning up after pets during walks. Another recipient was Cambusbarron Sports Day Group. The group were awarded £1,700 to purchase a portable stage system to be used for the Gala Day and other community events. Mike Graham, current chair of the advisory panel and representative for the Cambusbarron area said: ‘The panel were very impressed with the number and quality of applications. A lot of deliberation went into selecting the successful projects, and we look forward to being able to support many projects over the coming years.' Falck Renewables project manager, Euan Fraser, said: ‘One of our main aims in the communities where we build wind farms is always to be good neighbours and to ensure that the wind farm plays a part in community life. 'We're delighted that the community benefit fund is up and running and already helping some very worthwhile local causes.' The Earlsburn wind farm has 15 turbines and produces enough green electricity to power 25,000 homes. The Earlsburn Community Benefit Fund is administered by the Scottish Community Foundation. Application forms and guidelines can be downloaded from www.scottishcf.org. For more information, telephone 0141 225 6670 or email grants@scottishcf.org Notes to editors 1. Full list of grants awarded so far: Cambusbarron Sports Day - £1,700 To purchase a portable stage system to be used for the Gala Day and other events. Save Gillies Hill - £380 To produce a newsletter for the wider community to inform them of the progress and achievements of the group. Carronvale Tenants' and Residents' Association - £2,403.33 Costs towards the launch of a Green Dog Walkers Project. Herbertshire Games Organisation - £4,000 To cover the costs of running a junior highland games including the cost of equipment. Wider Access to Schools Project (WASP) - £2500(Denny and District) To cover the cost of producing WASP Publicity for the 2008/2009 session. 2. The next deadline for applications to the Earlsburn Community Benefit Fund is 31 August 2008. Decisions on applications will be made by 31 October 2008. 3. The annual award of £35,000 will rise annually in line with the rate of inflation.

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Japanese knotweed on Gillies Hill

By David ross, a community member, on 28 May 2008

Do we have a problem with knotweed(on quarry path) and rhodendron ponticum(general westward spread)?

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Save Gillies Hill Campaign

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 09 April 2008

Link to Save Gillies Hill Campaign

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Cambusbarron Community Council Easter 2008 Year Book

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 09 April 2008

The Cambusbarron Community Council Easter 2008 Year Book is available; it can be purchased in the Community Centre and at the Library, price £2.00 part of which after printing costs have been recovered, will go to village interests such as the Gala.

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15th Feb 2008 Minutes of Meeting from Tuesday 16 October 2007

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 15 February 2008

Minutes of Meeting Tuesday 16 October 2007

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15th Feb 2008 Minutes of meeting Tuesday 20th November 2007

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 15 February 2008

Minutes of meetingTuesday 20th November 2007

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19th February 2008 Meeting Briefing Note for Councillors & members of the public

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 15 February 2008

February 2008 Meeting Briefing Note for Councillors & members of the public

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Gala 2008

By maggie strang, a community member, on 31 January 2008

Arrangements for this year, Gala are we ll underway! We lost one team member and gained Janice Paterson We are anxious about the fact that there was no interest in the AGM or new people coming forward The current committee are happy to organise this year's Gala but as the average age of the committee is 56, we are heading for retiremnt!!! wE DO NEED NEW BLOOD Thanks to those who submitted constructive criticism and sound ideas I was disappointed to see suggestions that were quite upsetting. To those who did give your name, the Gala team will get back to you to discuss yur ideas Please feel welcome at our meetings - details from the library To those who did help in an way last year, could you get in touch with Margaret to leave your full contact details or leave them at the Library See you all soon!!!!

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BBC News Item

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 29 January 2008

Click here for the Latest BBC News on Murrayshall Quarry

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Controversy over headstone plans

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 27 January 2008

Stirling Council are assessing plans by a headstone company to build a commercial display area in a cemetery. A planning application by Forget Thee Not Memorials has been lodged for the facility at St Thomas' Cemetery in Cambusbarron in Stirling.

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Save Gillieshill. Latest news from recent Stirling Council meeting on proposed new quarry workings

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 26 January 2008

Re: recent Stirling Council meeting: an update: Many thanks to all the Save the Gillieshill team for all their hard work. ___________ Stirling Council’s deliberation of the Gillies Hill issue was an emphatic vindication of Save Gillies Hill’s stance. Every councillor who spoke, from all three parties, explicitly endorsed our campaign, and our particular aim – for an EIA to be carried out – was accepted. Nobody spoke against. SGH and its supporters were effusively congratulated. We knew before the meeting those councillors who had previously supported us; now they all do. It’s a mark of progress when the Leader of the Council says “It would be a tragedy, utter folly, for this to go ahead.” The officials conceded that an error had been made in 2002 in not ensuring an EIA; they were contrition personified. It’s the best result we could have wished for – we’ve now got Stirling Council on our side; and it would have been unthinkable last February – so well done to everybody: sometimes the good guys win. Of course, we haven’t, in fact, won yet: there’s still a long way to go: the whole business of now getting this EIA done is a complex one, but definitely do-able, and we now need to focus on what we think that Assessment should, in fact, assess: Douglas (Campbell) has agreed to be our Co-ordinator in this; Peggy, our American botanist will also prove useful here. So there’s still a lot of work ahead. But we’re making real progress

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Murrayshall Quarry latest news

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 03 October 2007

Wednesday, 3rd October, 2007 Council to hire QC over Gillieshill Stirling Council has announced today (Wed 3 October) that advice will be sought from Queens Counsel in response to local concerns regarding the recommencing of quarrying at Murrayshall Quarry, Gillieshill, Cambusbarron. This is as a result of a review by Stirling Council of the original planning consent issued in 1982 which has been on-going since summer 2007. The review has raised a number of complex issues that will be difficult to resolve, including the need for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). In view of the importance of this matter, it is considered that Counsel’s opinion is now sought on the issue of whether an EIA is required and what options are available before the matter is reported to Council, expected by December.

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save gillieshill

By mrs mcburney, a community member, on 03 September 2007

I was born in c/barron and raised in gillieshill,im now 34yrs old. a good few years ago i left and got married and now stay in the hillfoots, but have alwaz said i would come back to c/barron tomorrow. i still have family and many friends in the villiage and i return almost everyweek to family and the graveyard. on saturday myself,my dad and my little brother went up the woods for a walk, i havent been up there for years and what a shock i got. to begin with i remember fire engines, army trucks etc all passing my grandmothers house heading up the woods for fires etc. now? they couldnt get through the gate !!! so if u had an emergency with a child etc? theyve no chance of getting help quickly, we walked to the 3 tree's? and boom countryside demolished by hunks of rock below, the quarry is now 3times the size i remember it by. the main paths are getting smaller and some of them just over grown so much there gone. a castle ruin still sitting how it fell on my mothers 18th birthday, but covered in black bags of rubbish from campers, beer bottles n cans , now i understand noone will ever stop that, we did it as teenagers too, but it was never in such a state, that if these woods dont get some help? there wont be walks in 10yrs time, and history up there will be gone... its sad to see a place of history and memories fade, i think many from the villiage would agree,and if the quarry starts blasting they shake gillieshill homes, cus there either same level or not far away i didnt measure it, im no expert, but i do live next to tillicoultry quarry and i do know what it felt like to shake inside your home walls, they blasted that long that they ARE under house level and house's appeared with cracks in exteriar walls, damage to old homes is not easy repaired, that quarry is now closed for work to an extent (no blasting for a few yrs now) (summary) your letting a quarry ruin a beautiful village after all these years, and your letting a historic castle ruin and grounds be berried with the browns family name !!! yours, v mcburney "keep cambusbarron the lovely villiage it alwaz was"

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Local Red Squirrel Watch Info

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 13 May 2007

Please use links below to record local red squirrels
e-mails to Angus.Laing@snh.gov.uk http://www.snh.org.uk/scottish/species/mammals/squirrels.asp

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Cambusbarron Community News

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 02 May 2007

Latest Community News ..... On the link below ..... Catch up on all Cambusbarron Community News and Views, (our website is non photo friendly at the moment, hard copies with local views/pictures will be available soon, probably via Cambusbarron Library)

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Murrayshall Quarry Liaison Group (this group remains totally separate from Cambusbarron Community Council)

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 30 March 2007

Anyone wishing to add comments or seek further information please contact : Murrayshall Quarry Liaison Group C/O Cambusbarron Library StNinians Road Cambusbarron STIRLING FK7 9NU Also regular updates shall be available on the MQLG Save Gillieshill Website

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Stirling and Clackmannanshire Structure Plan being extended to 2025

By Ian Kerr, Cambusbarron Community Council, on 06 March 2007

Michael Graham said on 6 Mar at 13:33: The Third draft plan has now been published. This plan proposes significant housing development which could affect Cambusbarron and it addresses many other matters including minerals extraction - quarrying. The Murrayshall Quarry Liaison Group will be making a response on minerals policy in the current round of on 30th April 2007. Various reports have recently (Feb 2007) been published on the stirling council website - there will be Public exhibitions / drop in sessions to see the plans and discuss comments: Wed 14th March - Blairdrummond Hall, Blairdrummond 6pm - 9pm Sat 17th March - Old viewforth, Stirling, 10am -2pm Tuesday 20th March - Old viewforth, Stirling 6pm - 9pm Sat 31st March Kilearn Village Hall, Kilearn 10am - 2pm If you wish to see the proposals call in to the Cambusbarron library or give stirling planners a call on Stirling 442500

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Murrayshall Quarry

By Michael Graham, a community member, on 06 March 2007

Reopening quarry operations at Murrayshall would affect the local environment and residents of Kings Park, Torbrex, Borestone, Broomridge and Carron Valley Community Council areas as well as people in Cambusbarron and others who enjoy our local amenities. The Murrayshall Quarry Liaison Group [MQLG] has been established by Cambusbarron Community Council with the support of other community councils. This group includes local residents and community councillors. Michael Graham has agreed to serve as Convenor of the Murrayshall Quarry Liaison Group. MQLG will act as an independent objective point of contact and a body to aid with communication. We intend to see that community concerns are genuinely addressed and that all those involved in the statutory processes really understand the value of the environmental assets at risk. MQLG needs to hear from you. Anyone who has any information concerning biodiversity and environmental assets of Gillies Hill or who has any information concerning the impact of previous quarry operations should write to MQLG c/o Cambusbarron Library, St Ninians Road, Cambusbarron, FK7 9NU or put a note into the suggestion box at the library. An update on the Quarry proposals will be given at the regular public meeting of Cambusbarron Community Council in Cambusbarron Community Centre on the evening of 20th March.

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