Community Council minutes 15th June
ST. MONANS AND ABERCROMBIE COMMUNITY COUNCIL
Minute of the ordinary general meeting, held in the Church Hall, Station Road on Monday 15th June 2026 at 7.30 pm
| Present: | Marjory Ashworth (Chair), Suzy Cheong (Vice Chair), David Robertson (Treasurer), Katy Gall, Peter Peddie, Cllr Alycia Hayes, Diane Martin (Minute Secretary) | |
| Apologies: | Eileen Montador (Secretary) | |
| Members of the public: 7 | ||
| Welcome and apologies Marjory Ashworth welcomed everyone to the meeting. Apologies were received and recorded. | ||
| 2. | Declarations of interest There were no declarations of interest. | |
| 3. | Reports from Community Groups Floral Group – Katy Gall Ongoing work by the group including replacing tubs, planting out plug plants etc. SMAKE – Peter Peddie Lottery heritage funding of £115,000 received. Part of this funding has enabled the appointment of three consultants- 1. Community led training and activities consultant 2. Interpretation and delivery consultant 3. Evaluation consultant. ‘All consultants’ meeting will be held on 25th June. The history and heritage of the Kirk is very important and the consultants will do all they can to expand on this and take this to the local community. Pools & Pans – Peter Peddie Collection box – someone tried to break into this but did not succeed. Heritage – Marjory Ashworth Concern that there is no fire extinguisher in the building and Marjory Ashworth will approach the local brigade for advice. | |
| 4. | Last minutes and matters arising No police reports from now on. Marjory Ashworth has emailed the police to invite them to the meetings. The May minute was proposed by Peter Peddie and seconded by Katy Gall. | |
| 5. | Police Matters and Report Contact email address: eastneuklandwardCPT@scotland.police.uk Cllr Hayes has requested a meeting with the local commander to discuss the visibility of the police in the community. Marjory Ashworth commented that the council have spent all the money changing the speed limits, but the police don’t have time to police this. Meanwhile the missing road signage in the area remains outstanding. | |
| 6. | Chairperson’s Report – Marjory Ashworth Contact was made with Fife Council re request for a bench on Queen Margaret St – referred to housing department. Bench likely to be free.Flowers at Pathhead still need a couple of extra weeks. Hanging baskets will be red tones this year.Katy, Eileen and Marjory recently visited the primary school and selected the school captains and vice captains and prefects. | |
| 7. | Treasurer’s Report – David Robertson Heritage – £5321.53 Outstanding issues with gas and electric bills for the Heritage. Continues to be exchanges with the companies but still not resolved. Floral Account – £3379.44 finalising donations list Memorial – £3996.23 balance Cash flow account – £1346.17 NNG fund – Given approval to start issuing this following receipt of successful applications etc. Application forms will be available from CC members. | |
| 8. | Secretary’s Report Email received from Lochgelly CC who are very concerned about the proposed data centre beside them. Alerting others about this building which will support AI. This will be a large site, positioned adjacent to a small community. Comments on planning portal by Sunday 21st June – Planning Reference available. Apparently already 400 objections on the portal therefore likely to be over 2 years before a decision being made on this application.Email received re planning decisions. Cllr Hayes explained that Fife Council are looking to make alterations to the current structure to change from 2 to 1 Fife wide planning committee. Concerns about the possible reduction in quality of decisions made. Objections have resulted in this being withdrawn and shouldn’t be discussed for at least another year. | |
| 9. | Members’ Reports Katy Gall – Planning 38 East Street installation of a replacement door and light | |
| 10. | Councillors’ Reports Cllr Hayes At the full council meeting on Thursday Cllr Hayes will be bringing a motion regarding the security of primary schools in the Fife Council estate. Concerns about pupils leaving schools and no one knowing about this. Proposing a review of the entire FC estate.Questions re new iPads provided to every child. Concerns about pupils seeing inappropriate content and signing up to inappropriate games. Security? Housing issue. Current crisis and shortage of social housing in East Neuk. Costs of building a council house now £250,000 which makes building unaffordable. Cost of buying back in the East Neuk is very expensive too. Seaweed in the harbour – 20/5 response received – apparently the job was started but the machine broke down.New powers for CCs – no change to CC funding. Move to Parish Council model discussed – but there is little support for this. At the moment there is not a full complement of CC members on most of the CCs in the area. Also, little support for local events.FC heading to banning mobile phones in schools | |
| 11. | Public Questions 4 years ago, Queen Margaret Street was supposed to be resurfaced – nothing has happened and it is currently in a poor state. Cllr Hayes to visit and review.Did get double yellow lines outside the Heritage but a local person continues to park here. Cllr Hayes requests a photo and will take this forward.Speeding in both villages – to be highlighted to the police by Cllr Hayes. | |
| 12. | AOCB Nothing to report | |
| 13. | Close/date and time of next meeting There will be no meeting in July. The next meeting will be on Monday 17th August 2026 at 7pm for the AGM with the ordinary meeting starting at 7.30 pm. Marjory Ashworth thanked everyone for their attendance and brought the meeting to a close. | |
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