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Work costing more than £100,000 to restore Dunblane's river side walkway has been completed.

Read the Stirling Observer Article

Dunblane Community Partnership is holding a meeting for all community organisations in Dunblane to tell them more about the draft Community Action Plan, hear their views and how they can be involved.

On Monday 20 February at 7.30pm

In the Braeport Centre 

Get involved : We also want to discuss how community organisations could work together in the future. Let us know what you think! Does the draft Action Plan cover the important issues – have we missed anything? We want to make sure that more people can be involved in making the activity in the Action Plan happen. Please get involved – let us know the skills you have and what interests you.

Working groups : We are planning to set up working groups to take some of the actions forward – watch out here for more information. We will update this site regularly with news on what’s going on. We want to make sure that all households have a copy of the Community Action Plan once it is finalised– so look out for a copy coming through your door – or where you can get one.

Read more about Dunblane Community Partnership and the Charrette process.

Stirling Council is beginning year 4 of Priority Based Budgeting (PBB). The work the Council have done in years 1-3 has meant they are in a strong position financially. This means that unlike years 1-3, they will not be bringing budget options to the public for consultation, but instead finding savings through internal efficiencies.

This pause will enable the council to ask our communities for their feedback on the first three years of PBB and the ways in which the council tried to engage with them. Was everyone included? How easy was it to participate? What can they do better?

To help the council in this process, local residents can complete an online survey, which can be found here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PBByear4. The survey closes on Sunday 12 February 2017.

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Stirling Council has made progress with a draft design for the play area at the Laigh Hills Park

download the plan

They have met with the Landscape Architect on site to discuss current play provision and they have also considered the recent RoSPA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) inspection report.

The community consultation completed as part of the Park Masterplan in 2014 has also been considered as there was a lot of feedback relating to aspirations for the play area. The money for the proposals is coming from housing developments in Dunblane over the past several years.

The Park Steering Group agreed that the draft plan could be posted on the Dunblane Community website for a period of approx. 2 weeks to allow community feedback.  The plan will also be sent to Schools and Nurseries for comment.  

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Once we have completed the community consultation we can revise the plan accordingly and then progress with costing the agreed equipment and works. We will then be in a position to complete a tendering exercise to appoint a contractor to complete this project."

Andy Murray will receive a knighthood after a spectacular season winning Wimbledon and Olympic gold for the 2nd time as well as ending the year as World number 1.

Read more here

The Laigh Hills Park Working Group has been accepted onto the January vote for the Tesco Bags of Help scheme for an orchard project in the Laigh Hills.

Voting will take place from 2nd January to 28th January and we will be notified by the end of February 2017 confirming the amount of funding that we will receive. The project with the highest number of votes across the Stirlingshire region will receive £5,000, the second placed project £2,000 and the third placed project £1,000.So can I urge you to vote whenever you go to Tesco. You should get a voting token whenever you have any transaction in store – it doesn’t matter how small and you do not have to buy a bag. But you will probably have to remind the person on the checkout to give you a token.

There is also plan to spend money gathered from house developers over the years to improve the play park area of the Laigh Hills - you should be able to see the proposals on the Dunblane.info website. We have also just heard from the Scottish Rural Development Programme that we have been awarded significant funding for our bid to further enhance the footpaths through the park under the Improving Public Access option.

We will need to have a strong Friend of the Laigh Hills Group set up in the near future to help determine how the park is managed, be the eyes and ears to report any problems that need to be repaired and undertake some to the management work in the Park. So if you are a dog walker, parent, cyclist, walker or any other user of the park who cares about its well being please do get in touch with Alan Booth 01786 824791 to take things forwards. In the meantime, as well as voting yourself, can you can urge friends and relations to vote early and often for the Laigh Hills Orchard project at Tesco.

Alan Booth

This Christmas, Dunblane Boys Brigade collected over 2 tonnes of food and other items for those in need.  Read the Stirling Observer article below

Tonnes of help for those in need

A fantastic amount of food was amassed at a festive collection drive. The Boys' Brigade in Dunblane organised their traditional Christmas collection for Start-Up Stirling's crisis foodbank and amassed over two tonnes of items to help the neediest family situations across the area.

More than 50 BB boys and leaders were on hand at St Blane's Hall in Dunblane on December 22, and donations were non-stop from beginning to end as local people dropped off food, drink, toiletries and cleaning supplies over a three-hour period to help keep the shelves stocked at Start-Up's warehouse right into the new year.

The enthusiastic youngsters helped by opening donations, labelling items, sorting into storage containers - and even running to local businesses in the High Street to ask for extra boxes and containers when donations were so plentiful, capacity ran out. All the goods were transported to Start-Up Stirling's foodbank and weighed,with news coming through on the following day that over 2,000kg of goods had been donated.

James Forrest, age 14, has been helping at the annual event for the last four years. He said: "At BB, we have been learning about vulnerable groups in our community, and it is nice to do something practical and really useful for people, especially at Christmas, although we collect donations every month at BB, too."

BB captain Paul Christmas said: “It was fantastic to again see such great support from Dunblane and surrounding areas for this. We love the fact that the event has become a true tradition now and we are proud to partner with Start-Up Stirling regularly”.

 

 

Road closures between 9am & 6pm on Sundays 15th, 22nd and 29th January and 5th February 2017

B8033 Dual Carriageway

  • southbound carriageway from Fourways Roundabout to the junction of Sunnyside
  • northbound carriageway from the junction of Sunnyside to the access to the Police Station.
  • When the northbound carriageway is closed the southbound carriageway will be open and when the southbound carriageway is closed the northbound carriageway will be open.

Beech Road and Stirling Road: for their entire length. Emergency vehicle access will be maintained BUT general vehicle access to the station will be from the Springfield Terrace/Tesco car park

Further details and alternative routes here


Stirling Rd "Access for all" Project

The project has been enhanced thanks to the involvement of local school children, some of whom are pictured below - read more.

schools

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Programme & contract details

Further details of the plan here

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Project Background

In Early 2014, Stirling Council obtained funding from the sustainable transport charity SUSTRANS to improve the street layout on Beech and Stirling Roads. Since then they have been working with local residents, your Community Council, Dunblane Development Trust and Discover Dunblane to make the area more pedestrian and cyclist friendly. There has also been a focus on the needs of those with mobility difficulties, and vehicular access for station users, businesses and local residents.

A public consultation on concept plans took place in November/December 2014. Many of the comments received reflected a desire to get an environment that works well for all and been used by the Project Steering Group to finalise the plans. 

Summary report from consultation events

Expanded report from consultation events

Comments summarised in pie chart slide show

Comments made by consultation event attendees


Any further questions?

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Phone: 0845 277 7000 / 0845 277 7000 or 01786 404040 / 01786 404040 and ask for Transport Planning and Access.

Andy Murray has been voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for a record third time! This tops off a fantastic year with Andy winning Olympic gold, his second Wimbledon title and he became tennis' world number one.

Read more here

Dunblane figure skater Megan Carroll has won a silver medal at the British Figure Skating Championships in Sheffield.

Read more here

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