{"id":12151,"date":"2026-03-26T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/?p=12151"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:53:06","slug":"new-powers-for-scotlands-community-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/new-powers-for-scotlands-community-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"New Powers for Scotland&#8217;s Community Councils?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Under its <a href=\"https:\/\/consult.gov.scot\/local-government-and-communities\/democracy-matters\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/consult.gov.scot\/local-government-and-communities\/democracy-matters\/\">Democracy Matters<\/a> programme, the Scottish Government has been looking at options for devolving powers to communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of Community Councils are considering a petition to the Scottish Parliament to call for more powers and finance to be devolved, along similar lines to the discretionary powers and budgets of England\u2019s parish councils. Before doing so, they are asking their communities what they think of the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is the link to the local survey &#8211; there are a couple of quick questions and then space to add any other comments you may have. The Community Council want to hear from as many local people as possible, so please take a few minutes to share your views.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.alchemer.com\/s3\/8763176\/New-Powers-for-Scotland-s-Community-Councils-ST-MONANS-AND-ABERCROMBIE\">https:\/\/survey.alchemer.com\/s3\/8763176\/New-Powers-for-Scotland-s-Community-Councils-ST-MONANS-AND-ABERCROMBIE<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Monans and Abercrombie Community Council want to hear your views &#8230;<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/new-powers-for-scotlands-community-councils\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"St Monans and Abercrombie Community Council want to hear your views ...","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-council"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpg?fit=1200%2C300&ssl=1","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpg?fit=1200%2C300&ssl=1",1200,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpg?fit=300%2C75&ssl=1",300,75,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpg?fit=768%2C192&ssl=1",768,192,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpg?fit=1024%2C256&ssl=1",1024,256,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpg?fit=1200%2C300&ssl=1",1200,300,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpg?fit=1200%2C300&ssl=1",1200,300,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Dave","author_link":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/author\/dave\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"St Monans and Abercrombie Community Council want to hear your views ...","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rNeI-39Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12152,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151\/revisions\/12152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}