Summer's end: With the 'shows' (summer fair) away until next summer and pupils (and staff) back at school, it feels like summer's end! As the Burgh Chambers is temporarily closed for renovations, we are holding our public meetings elsewhere. Please note that our meeting on 15th September will be at 60 High Street (the old police station, now BFAST centre.)

High Street development aspirations: We have been contacted by a company called SANSEC Developments looking to possibly develop the current Evolve printers site. An agent wishes to attend our September CC public meeting.

Burntisland Common Good: The Community Council forwarded its concerns to Fife Council at the start of the year. The local Community Manager has told us that grants to community groups from the Fund are temporarily paused. She agreed to attend a CC meeting in September but we await confirmation of this. Meantime, our refreshed Common Good Apllications Police is now on our website (back page - governance.)

Burgh Chambers: Fife Council have allocated £250,000 for a refurbishment including a replacement heating system and improved accessibility. Until work is complete we cannot use the building. We have no timescales for this and work appears suspended for the summer. Unfortunately, recent communication from Fife Council has been poor.

Summer fair: We will seek to engage with Fife Council on what went well and what could be improved for next summer. Public toilet facilities and parking and vehicle movements on the Links are on our agenda.

Beacon Leisrure Centre and Changing Places Toilets: We are seeking more information on reported reductions in services at the Beacon. We are pleased to report that Fife Sports and Lesiure Trust CEO is looking at a proper Changing Places Toilet facility at its next refurbishment. We do not yet have any details on timescales.

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 our Local Place Plan page of this website. There is as yet no funding identified for any station improvements at Burntisland. The CC station subgroup had a useful meeting with Melanie Ward MP on 24th July to discuss the way forward. She provided us with the redacted costs of the various options and will seek potential funding avenues. She will release her community survey on the station access in the autumn after Parliament has resumed.

Scottish Water promised us an autumn update on what they can/will do to prevent recurrent surface water flooding in the Haugh Rd/Kirkton Rd area. To be confirmed!

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.) 

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.