OPEN TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC

Provost Tina Murphy would like to invite you to attend the Kirkin’ of the Council Service at Tillicoultry Parish Church on Sunday 8th October 2017 at 10.30am

Rev. Alison Britchfield will conduct the Kirkin’ of the Council Service.

The following arrangements have been made:

• Elected Members, Council Officials and other invited guests are advised to arrive by 10.15am and should meet at the Church.

• Rev. Alison Britchfield will make an announcement welcoming the guests and members of the Council to this Kirkin’ Service.

• Members of the Council and other invited guests will be led down the aisle to the reserved seats.

At the end of the Service, a steward will lead the main party to the refreshment area. Everyone attending the Service will be invited to the join the clergy for refreshments.

Please note that a parking steward will be available to direct guests to the parking behind the church.

For further information please contact Maggie Herd on 01259 45 2005 or email mherd@clacks.gov.uk

I look forward to seeing you there.

Provost Tina Murphy

The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service will visit
the Cochrane Hall, Alva on Wed 4th October
2.15 – 3.45 PM
and
5.15 – 7.30 PM

The Alva Community Action Plan Group are delighted to announce that an Outdoor Gym will be installed in the town’s Cochrane Park in Spring 2018.

The project has been made possible by a grant of £2000 from EDF Burnfoot Hill Community Fund and over £5,000 from the former Ochil Leisure Centre group.

There are well documented health benefits from the combination of fresh air and exercise as well as increased social interaction, sensory stimulation and fun. The Outdoor Gym is aimed at those over age 14 and will contribute to the promotion of physical activity by providing readily available and enjoyable ways to exercise in the park, overcoming barriers to exercise such as cost and accessibility.

Clackmannanshire Council’s Landscape Design Officer, Mike Nicoll has worked with the group giving advice and guidance on choice of equipment, location, etc, and has secured a good price for equipment using the Councils procurement arrangements.

The six pieces of equipment will be fixed on rubber grass matting and are: Air Skier, Air Walker, Ski Stepper, Rower, Sit Up Bench and The Twister.   They will be located on the grassed area behind the toilet block. The group hope to secure further funding to extend the facility in due course.

Alva’s Community Action Plan was published in Sept 2015 following consultation where everyone in each Alva household was invited to take part in a survey.  The following are quotes;

‘The parks in Alva could be developed further to attract more visitors adding attractions such as…..an outdoor gym…’

‘There is a strong desire for further investment in sports and leisure facilities within the town’.

The Community Action Plan (CAPLan) can be viewed online at www.alvacommunitycouncil.org.uk Notes of CAPLan Steering Group meetings are also available via the Meetings and Minutes option of the website.  The Steering Group is made up of some Alva Community Councillors and members of the Alva community.  Anyone wishing to join the group or find out more please email info@alvacommunitycouncil.org.uk

Time for you all to think about community growing projects in the spring and how you could benefit from Bags of Help

Please share and encourage friends & family to complete one – the more the merrier!

Apply now http://bit.ly/bagsofhelp4

Talk to our community enablers http://bit.ly/scotbagsofhelp

Please click on the weblinks below to access the new Traffic Regulation Orders for Clackmannanshire

5-6-1521 The Clackmannanshire Council, Ochil Street, Tullibody (Temporary Road Closure) Order 2017

5-6-1524  The Clackmannanshire Council, Southcroft, Alva (Temporary Road Closure) Order 2017

5-6-1525  The Clackmannanshire Council, Southcroft, Alva (Temporary No Parking) Order 2017

5-6-1530  The Clackmannanshire Council, Various Streets, Alva (Temporary Road Closure) Order 2017

Consultation on the role of the Scottish Health Council: Strengthening people’s voices in health and social care

The Scottish Health Council is a key part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland and plays a leading role in ensuring that NHS Scotland listens to the views of people and communities, and that it acts on those views.

It is well-recognised that services can only improve when they are informed and shaped by people who use those services, their families and carers, and local communities.  Whilst there has been progress made in engaging people, we believe there is more that can be done to improve people’s experience of engagement, whether at individual, community or national level, and to demonstrate more clearly the difference that their engagement has made.

Download from the website:
http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/shc_consultation.aspx

If you have any queries relating to the consultation, please contact us via hcis.consult@nhs.net – paper copies of the consultation document and the questionnaire can also be requested via this email address.

The closing date for responses to the consultation is Friday 20 October 2017.  We look forward to hearing from you.

The Consultation on the Scheme for the Establishment of Community Councils has reached it’s second
stage.
The public can have it’s say by means of an online questionnaire at..
https://clackmannanshire.citizenspace.com/communications-department/community-council-scheme/

Why We Are Consulting

Clackmannanshire’s community councils work within a framework governing how residents establish  community councils in the first place and certain aspects of how those community councils then operate. The governing framework, called the Scheme for the Establishment of Community Councils,  sets out common parameters within which they should operate to ensure they maintain standards of democracy in keeping with their function.

Although at a local level residents already have scope to determine much of how their community council goes about its business on a day-to-day basis, we feel the current framework could be amended to better suit modern attitudes to community representation and to reinforce the scope for self-determination.

We are asking people to comment on the document containing these broader aspects of how community councils operate which all community councils should have in common.

 

Good news at long last!!
Planning permission to build 11 houses on the site of the former
Alva Glen Hotel has at long last been passed.
Here is PDF document relating to the application which you can
also download.

Download (PDF, 320KB)

Or visit Clackmannanshire Council’s website to access all documents
related to the application
https://eplanning.clacks.gov.uk/eplanning/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=OIA8C8EYMYX00