DCC Meeting Agenda

Wednesday 1st April 2026, 7 pm - Dunblane Library and Zoom

1. Apologies
2. Conflicts of interest
3. Adoption of minutes of previous meeting & matters arising
4. Co-option of new DCC Members
5. Reports:

1. Police Report
2. Operational Report (TOB)
3. Planning
4. Elected Members

6. Community:

• Residents Forum – Crossings in Dunblane
• Sports – Cycle storage and repair station
• Schools – update
• Community support – Feedback from meeting with Citizens Advice Bureau 
• DDT

7. Environment/ Sustainability:

• Community Gardens (AB) & Orchards – Grant + Orchard Blossom Day 10/5/2026
• Forestry – Plans
• Greenspaces – Holmehill plans 

8. Internal:
   1. Correspondence and Communication 
   2. Treasurer’s Report (SC)
9. AOB
10. Date, time, place of next meeting

2025 - Local Place Plan

Key proposals are laid out below and the full plan is attached.  Confusingly, the term Local Development Plan is used at Local Authority level (Stirling), and Local Place Plan is used at community level (Dunblane). 

Have your say about Dunblane!

Dunblane is a great place to live, work and visit. With its, local economy, river,
parks and woodland walks, local/national transport links, rich history, Cathedral,
Leighton Library and museum it’s just an amazing place for people to come
together.  We want to work together with you to build on all of that, making
Dunblane an even better place for the future.

The Scottish Government has introduced a new Planning Policy Framework
called NPF4. This new policy allows for Local Place Plans to be put together by
local communities. These Plans are supposed to be taken account of by Councils
as they prepare the next Local Development Plan which will run until 2036. Plans
must be submitted to Stirling Council by early 2025 at the latest, we would like to
submit our Plan before Christmas this year if possible.

We are running a survey during the month of June. The survey is a simple 8
questions and should only take a few minutes to complete. Paper copies of the
survey can be picked up and dropped off at Dunblane Library.
This survey is our initial attempt to gather your views. We will look at the results
and then decide if further short surveys are required to get more detail, we may
do workshops also on specific topics.

Currently we do not have any funding to help us with this project, the Scottish
Government did not allocate funding, Stirling Council does not have funding. We
are hoping to get some funding via the FVL CLLD fund, we will let you know if we
are successful.

We are using SurveyMonkey to collect responses, all data is confidential with no
personal information being requested. We ask for Post Code in the survey, but
this is optional.

It is really important that we get a good response rate, there are 10,000 of
us living here in Dunblane, we really need to get at least 1500 responses,
more would be much better. Please spread the word to your friends and
family in Dunblane. Stirling Council will take more notice of surveys with
good response rates. Over to you!

All information gathered will be confidential and responses recorded on Survey Monkey. 

Take the Survey!

Paper copies of the survey can be picked up and dropped off at Dunblane Library. Thank you for your help. 

Below are some links to NPF4 and Local Place Plans:

national-planning-framework-4.pdf (www.gov.scot)
National Planning Framework 4 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
Information on Local place plans | Stirling Council

Here's our poster on the issue of Travel for example...

Our Area  Dunblane CC has a reach across the wider Dunblane community and extends north and south of the town to nearby villages including Ashfield and Kinbuck. The Community Council boundary map can be seen on Stirling Council's website.

Consultation Policy: the Community Council's approach to consultation can be read here

The Community Councillors

Our Approach

Dunblane Community Council starts by finding out the views of the community.  This is done by surveys, a presence at events such as the fling, ongoing receipt of emails and facebook posts.

We establish and maintain partnerships with organisations throughout Dunblane and beyond.  These include Dunblane Development Trust, the schools and Stirling Council.  As well as hearing their views we acertain their capability to help us deliver our plan.

We develop, maintain and deliver (in conjunction with our partners) a plan for the local community

	Transport	Promoting active travel, enhancing road safety and improving rail and bus services
£	Town Centre & Economy	Improving parking, supporting streetscaping schemes and improving the visual appearance of properties
	Heritage	Exploring Dunblane's untapped potential as a tourist centre
	Community	Nurturing Dunblane's five community centres and its public services such as schools; supporting events such as the Fling
	Housing	Protectiing the greenbelt, supporting affordable housing and ensuring services are not overwhelmed by reviewing and opposing planning applications where appropriate
	Green Spaces	Supporting biodiversity and cleaning up and enhancing Dunblane's Green Space

Role of Community Councils
Community Councils were set up as part of Local Government reorganisation in 1973

“to ascertain, co-ordinate and express to the local authorities for its area and to public authorities the views of the community which it represents in relation to matters for which those authorities are responsible” and “to take such action in the interests of that community as appears to it to be expedient and practicable”. 

This gives a great deal of scope for community councils to get involved in a variety of local issues: to develop local projects and activities (on their own or with others), and to represent community opinion to local authorities and public bodies. If there is a local issue which concerns you, you are welcome to come to our meetings or contact us to tell us your thoughts.

Background legislation
The general purpose of Community Councils is defined in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and in the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994.

Constitutional issues
The model constitution and model code of conduct for Community Councils can be found on the community councils’ page on the Stirling Council website.