Remembrance Sunday 9th November: Service times are: 10.45 at Erskine Church and 12 noon at the War Memorial. Parade leaves Fire Station in Harbour Place at 10.15. Wear your poppy with pride and never forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice that others might live freely. May we all live together in peace.

Burntisland Burgh Chambers: What's going on?! Shortly before our October CC meeting we were informed abruptly by Fife Council that our regular bookings for the building had been cancelled. Fife Council have given us little information and no consultation. However, we have discovered that when the building work was done to enable the new Banking Hub, pipework that provided the rest of the building with hot water for the central heating system was removed. As there is now no heatiung in most of the Burgh Chambers, Fife Council wants to clear everything out of the building, including all the community groups that use it. The Council wants to move all the historical artefacts of our old Royal Burgh into storage elsewhere. WE DO NOT AGREE TO THIS! We have written to Fife Council and await a response from senior Council officials. Meantime, our local Fife Councillors await a meeting with Fife Council and tell us they are also in the dark. We know that Fife Council had a surveyor out - we think to value the buidling for possible sale. We have informed our MP, Melanie Ward, and MSPs, Claire Baker and David Torrance. In the meantime, Fife Council have agreed to provide portable LPG heaters to enable the CC, Burntisland Heritage, and other groups to continue to use the Burgh Chambers. This includes the CC public meeting and Scots Verse Awards on 18th November. However, we are not happy about usuing LPG heaters, and have requested electric radiators or convector heaters instead. We are also looking for possible alternative meeting and reception venues - it's not easy. Many thanks to Erskine Church for allowing us to use their halls for our October meeting while Brownies and Rainbows were on their autumn break.

Banking Hub opens this month: Your CC facilitated the Cash Access UK Banking Hub to come to Burntisland by giving it all the reasons we need local banking services. Your CC suggested the alternative temporary site at 60 High Street for the Hub when the Council were slow to prepare the Burgh Chambers rooms. Your CC agreed to the ten-year lease of the Burgh Chambers to Cash Access UK to facilitate the Hub moving in. Why is your CC being treated in this way by Fife Council?

Community Award: Nominations for the Burntisland Community Awards are open in three categories: Individual Citizen; Group or Team; Young person aged under 25 on 1st January. Forms are downloadabale from this website and we will make a few paper forms available at the Toll Hub in the High Street.

Christmas Lights: We have bought eight new motif lights for lampposts along the edge of the Links and one at the foot of Cromwell Rd. We are grateful for an LCP grant towards recurring costs from Fife Council. However, our costs are rising and the grant has reduced. We have enough funds for this year but will once again be grateful for the generosity of local people and businesses who help support our Christmas LIghts Fund. The lights are much appreciated by locals and visitors.

Public Community Council Meetings: These are held every 3rd Tuesday of the month (except July when there is no meeting).

The meeting draft agendas are posted on this website during the week prior to the meeting. (See tab on the right of this page to download an agenda.) If you would like a topic added to the agenda please use the 'contact us' box. You can also raise a topic at the start of the meeting but it will depend on time constraints if it can be included at that meeting. The meeting draft Minutes are posted on this website usually by the Tuesday following the meeting (see Minutes page on this website to access all recent minutes.) 

Fife Council website: The Fife Council website https://www.fife.gov.uk/ has a lot of information and easy to use features for members of the public to report issues that don’t require the intervention of a Councillor or a BCC member.

​Councillors: Our three local elected Fife Councillors for Ward 9 are: Cllr Lesley Backhouse, Cllr Kathleen Leslie, and Cllr Julie MacDougall. Their contact details are at: https://www.fife.gov.uk/kb/docs/articles/about-your-council2/politicians-and-committees/your-local-councillors/councillor/burntisland,-kinghorn-and-western-kirkcaldy Your Community Council works with all our elected members, especially our local Fife Councillors, and we remain a non-party political organisation.

ASB: If a crime may be taking place please inform the police as soon as possible by calling 101 or reporting via the webform: https://www.scotland.police.uk/secureforms/c3/ In emergency call 999 or 112.

There is also a form on the Fife Council website to report antisocial behaviour, vandalism and graffiti: https://www.fife.gov.uk/kb/docs/articles/community-life2/safer-communities/antisocial-behaviour