A Space for Living
Over the past two years, in consultation with the community, we have developed an action plan, A Space for Living, designed to tackle a range of transport, road safety and environmental concerns within Balfron. On Saturday 12 May, we held a very successful Street Event in Buchanan Street to display the work done so far. We had wonderful weather and a great turn-out from the community. As well as the main exhibition in Doyle’s Café, we had pop-up stalls around Buchanan Street, promoting the work of Incredible Edibles Balfron, The Pathways Group, and the War Memorial Crowdfunding Appeal. You can find out more about the background to A Space for Living here. And here are the plans for Buchanan Street that were on display: SfL Exhibition Boards
They will be exhibited again in Balfron Library from Monday 28 May, where there will also be Comment Sheets and Pledge Cards where you can tell us your thoughts, and how you might be able to support our work as we take this exciting venture to the next stage.
Balfron Resilience Plan
A resilience plan for Balfron is now available. The plan will be ‘owned’ by the residents of Balfron and will help facilitate village wide communication of a major incident. A major incident is defined as
- an event or situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in Balfron
- an event or situation which threatens serious damage to the environment in Balfron
This plan is does not remove the emergency services as being the first point of contact for incidents and its aim is to provide a communication and response strategy when a major incident occurs.
The detailed resilience plan is available here>>
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Dates
Community Council meetingBalfron High School |
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Community Council meetingBalfron High School |
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Community Council meetingBalfron High School |
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Community Council meetingBalfron High School |
About Us
The Community Council is a body consisting of local residents, who meet on a monthly basis to discuss and progress issues affecting the local community, and represent the views and concerns of the Balfron residents to Stirling Council and other relevant groups.
Members
- Colin Cameron, Chair
- Fraser Allan, Vice Chair
- Bill Noblett, Treasurer
- Christine Wilson, Secretary
- John Nicholson, Planning
- Laura Elder
- Alison Lamont Chalmers
- David McGowan
- Robert Young
- Our Minute-Taker is Carsten Mandt
Recent Posts 
Lovely event at The Library this evening for the Christmas lights switch-on. A big thank you to Carol both for the switch-on and for allowing the invasion! Also to The Bakers & More for the mince pies which disappeared fast. Brilliant turnout - thanks all.
Well done Carol. The village library, the hub of the village. A warm, inviting and vital part of the village. An asset to the community. Look at all the happy little faces. These little faces are the future of the village 😃
Lovely to see the Christmas tree back outside the Library. Great pic of Carol doing the honours
Lovely xxx
The community Christmas trees are now in place awaiting Tuesday's Big Switch-On - a huge thank you to those who worked hard to get them in place, and to the companies who generously donated the trees: Laurent Bienfait Woodland Services (for the Tontine tree); and the Christmas Tree Farm Buchlyvie (for the Library). Also to Beech Tree Inn not just for the planter, but for the Happy Christmas sign, which was a lovely surprise when we went to pick it up! See you on Tuesday - 4:30pm at The Library.
We need a half-barrel planter to secure the Christmas tree at the Library, as the one we used last year isn’t available. Has anyone got one we could use before I do the rounds of the garden centres? We’ll be putting both trees up on Saturday morning.
The good people at Beech Tree Inn are sorting us out. Thanks all.
Try the distillery
Doug Reside
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