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.

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 meaningful 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 heating 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 but still await a response from senior Council officials. Meantime, our elected local Fife Councillors will meet with Fife Council senior officers on 4th December. We know that Fife Council had a commercial surveyor out - we think to value the building for possible sale. We have informed our MP, Melanie Ward, and our MSPs. In the meantime, Fife Council have offered to provide portable LPG heaters. We do not think they are appropriate and will not take responsibility for them. Fife Council have told us that we will be excluded from the building after our November meeting. We intend to hold the CC public meeting and Scots Verse Awards on 18th November in the Burgh Chambers as usual. DRESS WARMLY If ATTENDING THE BURGH CHAMBERS AS THE BUILDING MAY FEEL COLD! We are also looking for possible alternative meeting and reception venues - it's not easy. Complaints have been sent to Fife Council on the matter.

The Banking Hub is now open in the old office, ground floor, Burgh Chambers: Your CC facilitated the Cash Access UK Banking Hub to come to Burntisland by giving it all the reasons that 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 then is your CC being treated with so little regard by Fife Council in their removal of heating from the rest of the Burgh Chambers in their works to heat the new Hub?

Remembrance Sunday 9th November: Many thanks to everyone involved in the commemorations: to Burntisland & District Pipe Band, Parade Commander Ian Wallace, the clergy from all four of our churches, the bugler and piper, all who laid wreaths, and especially to all the children and young people of our uniformed organisations who braved very wet weather to play their part so well, and to their group leaders.

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