Welcome to Royal Burgh of Burntisland Community Council
Community Councillors are volunteers working to help make Burntisland a better place by reflecting community views to Fife Council and others. See page 2 for more details on our work: 'About us'.
For Fife Council issues, please contact them directly by telephone or via their website.
The popular refurbished Links Splash Pad
Splash pad official opening 2nd July 2026
Royal Burgh of Burntisland Community Council (BCC) News:
Burntisland Highland Games Day: Many thanks to all the volunteers who worked to make this day a great success. We have an IT issue currenly preventing photo uploads to our website and hope to remedy this as soon as possible. Meantime please see our facebook page.
July public meeting: In a break with tradition, we will hold a public meeting on 21st July (the day after Games Day) at 60 High Street (BFAST premises) from 7-9pm.
Splash Pad: The refurbished splash pad was officially opened 2nd July and it is proving very popular! It is open for safe water play for children of all ages and abilities 8am to 8pm - jump on the pads to activate. Photo shows children from Burntisland School with Head Teacher Louiser Gordon and Karen Redpath; Fife Councillors (left to right) Julie MacDougall, Ian Cameron, Lesley Backhouse and Kathleen Leslie; and (centre) Eliza Twaddle and Anne Smith of your community council which pushed for the refurbishment and helped fundraise for it. Many thanks to Fife Council, Fife Environmental Trust, our elected representatives, and the school parent council for their support.
Burgh Chambers: Fife Council have allocated £250,000 for a refurbishment including a replacement heating system and improved accessibility.
Rail station step free access: Network Rail have completed a costed feasibility study for step free access to Platform 2 at Burntisland station. We have received this as a redacted version via a Freedom of Information Request. It can be viewed on ourLocal Place Plan page of this website. There is as yet no funding identified for any station improvements at Burntisland. Your CC will meet shortly with Melanie Ward MP to discuss the way forward.
Burntisland Common Good: The Community Council has forwarded its concerns to Fife Council.
Public Community Council Meetings: These are held every 3rd Tuesday of the month. 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.)
Contact us: Our Secretary will reply to you as soon as possible
Fife Council: Please contact Fife Council directly about any issues you have on their areas of responsibility. 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 Fife Councillor or a Community Council member.
Councillors: Our three local elected Fife Councillors for Ward 9 are: Cllr Lesley Backhouse, Cllr Kathleen Leslie, and Cllr Julie MacDougall.
Your Community Council works with all our elected members, especially our local Fife Councillors, and we remain a non-party political organisation.
Anti-social behaviour: If a crime may be taking place please inform the police as soon as possible by calling 101 or, if less urgent, reporting via the webform: https://www.scotland.police.uk/secureforms/c3/ In emergency call 999 or 112.
