Chair steps down: Isla MacDonald continues as a Community Councillor but has stepped down as Chair due to increased work committments. Our Vice Chair, Jim Sheridan, will fill the breach until we appoint a new Chair. We have a few vacancies for Community Councillors. If you are interested in joining us, please read the information on this website, attend a couple of CC meetings, and speak to one of us of your interest. We are all unpaid volunteers and do our best to improve life in our community, working with elected members and other agencies.

Christmas planning: Yes, we are in the midst of our Christmas lights planning - we're buying 8 new festive motifs for the lampposts along Kinghorn Road on the Links side / foot of Cromwell Rd. We will pay Fife Council to put up the new connectors for us. Many community groups are making their autumn and winter plans. If you are planning winter events, remember to let the Burgh Buzz editor have your information by the 23rd October deadline. Remember we will be choosing Community Award winners for 2026 at the end of the year, so give this some consideration now. Nomination forms will be available on this website in November. With so many worthy folk and groups to nominate it might be a hard choice.

Work in progress: Scottish Water are looking at the issue of recurrent surface water flooding at Kirkton Rd and Haugh Rd areas. Fife Council will soon start work on the Links Splash Pad refurbishment. Frustrated at lack of progress, the CC is reforming a rail station subcommittee on step free access and associated issues.

Public Community Council Meetings: These are held every 3rd Tuesday of the month (except July when there is no meeting). We are running hybrid meetings using Zoom. If you are unable to attend our meeting in person and would like to join by Zoom, please contact us for the Zoom link - you can do so by emailing our Secretary. Meetings are usually held in the old Council Chamber of Burntisland Burgh Chambers in the HIgh Street, next to the Library.

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