Kingswells Community Council

Minutes of Kingswells Community Council Meeting

Date:

Monday 11^th August, 2008

Time:

8 pm

Venue:

Kingswells Community Centre

Chair:

Barrie Buchan (Chair),

Participants

Alan Stott, Ian Cox (Secretary), John Gerrie, Meg Sands, Stan McEwan, Alex Carnie, Tom Straiton

Apologies:

Councillor Len Ironside, David Meiklejohn (Treasurer), Councillor Wendy Stuart, Elaine Sinclair ACC

Representatives
/ Observers:

Reg Geddes from the police

Lord Provost Peter Stephen,

Colleen Manson - member of the public

Sally from Evening Express

Item

Action

1

Introduction by Chair

2

Police Report

Reg provided police reports by email.  Ian is to circulate.

Ian

Reg stressed the importance of reporting incidents to enhance the statistics.

Kingswells

It was noticed that the incidence of under-aged drinking was significantly reduced.

There are several email scams going about at the moment from banks and the lottery. Advice is to delete without opening. Usual way to verify is to check the email address of the sender - they tend not to be from the bank. Your bank will never ask for your security details.

Kingswells

Some cut trees have been dumped on the public area near Broaddykes Crescent. Wardens have the power to issue fixed penalty notices.

Wardens

Reg was thanked for his attendance on his day off.

3

Points from Member of the Public

New Member

Colleen Manson was proposed and seconded as a co-opted member of KCC. Colleen is the chair of Sovereign Heights Residents' Association.

Letter Regarding the CCTV System

A letter has been received from a resident expressing concern about the angle of sight of one of the CCTV cameras. The camera is reported to point directly to the house and garden of the resident. The camera is considered to invade the privacy of the resident and thus contravenes the Data Protection Act in respect to proper use of CCTV systems. The resident requests that the camera be adjusted. The resident stated that they were unwilling to view the images recorded by the camera.

The matter was discussed, it was pointed out that:

1.      The camera in question points towards the location of the Christmas tree and does not invade the privacy of any resident. The main focus of the camera is the car park entrance.

2.      The police have confirmed that the system complies with legal requirements.

KCC concluded that the complaint by the resident was not justified and the camera would not be moved. A response would be agreed and Alan would respond to the letter.

Alan

Kingswells Forum

As KCC had spent much time on the Forum dealing with the above issue, it was concluded that further involvement with this topic would be futile. No other responses would be posted, but if residents had concerns than they could still write to, phone or email KCC.

KCC

3

Attendees and Apologies

As Above

4

Approval of Minutes

The minutes of the previous meetings were approved..

6

Matters Arising (not covered below)

Notice Board

Stan was thanked for arranging and installing the new notice board.

Kingswells Signs

John will get prices for signs and dykes.

The dykes will be built by the people at the Countryside Project and some volunteer labourers. The CP will charge £5,000 for building the dykes. This was considered excessive and other quotes will be obtained.

John will contact Marianne at Stewart Milne, Barratt Homes, ACC and residents' associations re the use of the land for signs.

The wording on the sign should be "Welcome To Kingswells Village".

John

John

7

Councillors

Peter provided the following update:

• Broad dykes ground maintenance was ongoing and Peter hoped for resolution in September
• Beautiful Scotland judges will be in Aberdeen in the coming month.
• Fairley Road traffic calming will be discussed at a meeting in August.
• The height restriction barrier at the P&R will be discussed at the North Area meeting on 19^th August.
• Halting sites will be discussed at the North Area meeting in September.

Peter will contact David Wright.

Peter will contact planning gain officer ASAP to arrange a meeting with KCC.

Stonehaven Car club left rubber marks on the P&R carpark. KCC will write to Peter to re rumoured uses of the P&R.

8

Treasurers Report

Nothing to report on accounts.

9

AOCB

Barrie will write to ACC re funding and the small project grant.

Barrie

KCC are awaiting a response from the article in the Kingswells News to determine the community interest in Beautiful Scotland project.

Stan will contact Cove re how they organise their Gala day.

Stan

John will contact the minister, Dolly, re the carol singing.

John

Barrie will speak to ACC re the core path / cycle route

Barrie

An additional meeting will be arranged to discuss the Structure Plan - Thursday @7pm @ Community Centre

KCC

Barrie to contact the planning gain officer to arrange a meeting with KCC

Barrie

10

Date of Next meeting:

Next meeting will be on 8^th September, 2008 in coffee shop of Kingswells