November 2025 Minutes

  1. November 2025 Minutes

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Braehead & Broomridge Community Council

27 November 2024:  Mayfield Community Centre

 

      Present:        

Mandy Rae, Lesley Ferguson, Martin Shaw

In attendance: Margaret Sweeney (minute taker),  Police Scotland - PC Woodhouse and PC Spike, Andrew Nelson - Superglass,  members of the public and a resident of Braehead.

             

  1. Welcome

 

Martin welcomed all to the meeting and introductions were made.

 

 

  1. Apologies

 

Hugh McClung, Philomena McClung, Barbara Anderson, Jamie Adcock, Councillor Flannagan

 

 

  1. Minutes of previous meeting and matters arising

 

No declarations of interest.

 

October Minutes were proposed by Mandy Rae and seconded by Lesley Ferguson.                                  

 

 

  1. Office Bearer Reports

 

Chair – Thanked Police Scotland PC’s for making time to attend the meeting.  Understand all the issues and grateful that the report can be reviewed and possibly changed. Actions: None  

 

 

Secretary – No report.

 

Confirmed that the March and May meetings have been cancelled at the Mayfield Centre as the Chair has proposed these take place at the Crawford Hall.   

Actions: 

Martin will look into loop induction system to be used in Crawford Hall

 

 

Treasurer – current balance is: £3248.61

 

Still issues with bank.  Need to review the situation again in January

Mandy suggested removing the current bank account and looking at setting up a new account.  Needs to be a Treasurer Account – RBS have these available however to set this up someone needs to be a current RBS customer.

Actions:

Martin will look into setting up an RBS Treasurer account as he is a current RBS customer.

 

Planning – only item of interest is extension to Almond Court front of property.  No objections.

 

 

  1. Additional Reports

 

Councillor Report 

 

Nothing available.

 

 

Police 

 

Attendance from Police Scotland officers.  Discussed the issues surrounding community policing – difficulty with resources, posts are available and are looking for more officers.

 

Lots of road traffic incidents – recording is now different reflecting the increase in cases (e.g. speeding, no insurances).

 

Recent talk at Braehead Primary on internet safety.

 

Crime report for Braehead and Broomridge Area from 30 October – 27 November: 22 detected cases and 25 undetected cases.  

 

 

Superglass

 

One complaint raised in October to Sepa re: odour – couldn’t find location of this.

Noise issue raised – turned out to be valve system issue and has been dealt with by Scottish Gas.  Engineering work taking place this week and return to normal work from next week.  Still to arrange meeting for community councillors to visit.

 

 

  1. General Business

 

Banking Update

 

See treasurer update.

 

 

Defib Status/New Location

 

Still waiting to hear from Area Manager at the Co-op about what they wish from us.  

Action:

Martin – maintain contact with Manager at Co-op.

 

 

Afton Court Park

 

The order for the equipment has been accepted and installation will be January.  The current equipment will be made safe before the new one will be installed.

Action: 

Lesley – will keep everyone updated.

 

 

Flyers/Leaflet Drops

 

No updates.

Action: 

Jamie – ongoing

 

 

Noticeboard update

 

Still waiting for prices.

Action: 

Lesley – update all when prices received.

 

 

Meetings

 

Discussed whether there should be any amendments to the monthly meetings.  Agreed current monthly meetings should continue – no changes.

Action: No action

 

 

Toy Library 

 

Afton Court Toy Library extremely popular.  The box is damaged, but the toys are intact.  Some toys have been damaged but have been replaced.  Consider getting a wooden box to stop children from transporting it elsewhere.

 

Wallace Park – toy box not set up here yet, concerned about box not withstanding current weather.  

Action:  

Mandy – go ahead and purchase box.  

 

Local resident asked whether community service could build boxes?  

Action:

Martin – will look into this.

 

 

      AOCB

 

      Resident raised concerns about the state of the area.  Concerned about debris, machinery        etc.  Advised to raise issues via Stirling Council Portal along with images.  

 

 

      Mandy asked about the “Report It” section on the Stirling Council website – can the           Community council get reports on issues that were reported on the site and confirm how        they were resolved.

      Action: 

      Martin – to contact Stephen Bly and ask whether this is possible.

 

 

      Martin suggested looking at getting Stirling Council staff from various departments to come       to a Community Council Meeting – proposed this be the March meeting with a possible start        date at 6pm

      Action:

      Discuss at next meeting 

 

 

      Meeting closed at 20:25 hrs

 

     Next meeting will be held on Wednesday 29 January 2025 @19:00hrs at Mayfield Centre