Catterline, Kinneff & Dunnottar Community Council

Tonight's meeting (Tuesday, 30 November 2010) has been postponed as a result of the inclement weather we are currently experiencing. It will now be held on Tuesday 7th December at 7.30 in Catterline School.

Several people in the Stonehaven area have received phone calls recently purporting to be from "Microsoft Windows" about "virus problems reported by your internet service provider". These calls are scams. Microsoft does not make unsolicted phone calls to help you fix your computer. If you recieve an unsolicted call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft, just hang up.

For further information, see;

• Microsoft Fraud Prevention Information
• Virus phone scam being run from call centres in India (guardian.co.uk, Sunday 18 July 2010)

There will be a meeting to discuss the Local Development Plan and the current 'state of play' at Catterline School on Thursday 23rd September 2010 at 7.30pm. Piers Blaxter from Aberdeenshire Council will be present to answer questions.

The draft Local Development Plan for Aberdeenshire is now online. Stonehaven/Dunnottar/Touks and Kinneff are covered in the Kincardine Settlements Statement Part 2, and Catterline is mentioned in the Housing and business development in the Countryside document. Full details can be found here.

The proposals are being presented to the Kincardine and Mearns Area Committee and Infrastructure Services Committee on March 9th and 10th. According to the Aberdeenshire web site, "these draft LDP settlement and site proposals are based on internal and external stakeholder consultation and submissions from the public consultation on the Main Issues Report. These are likely to change as they progress through the Area Committees and Infrastructure Services Committee".

Our web hosts will be moving ckdcc.org.uk to a new server some time between  between 18:00 on 26 November 2009 and 06:00 on 27 November 2009 and we will be offline for about an hour at some point during that period. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Aberdeenshire Council are interested in hearing feedback from coastal Community Councils about any problems encountered during and after the recent exceptional weather. If you would like to contribute your views, please get in touch with us or come along to our next meeting (24th November 2009).

The pages showing planning applications in the CKDCC area has been given a bit of a makeover, and now has colour coded markers on the map to show the status of current planning applications. It also has different tabbed pages for each year to keep things nicely organised. The biggest change, however, is not obvious at first glance. Instead of being entered by hand, planning application details  are now extracted directly from Aberdeenshire Council's planning database by some fiendishly clever software written by Stephen Hall, so the list of applications will remain up to date without any human intervention.

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The wrong date for this meeting was published on the web site. Unfortunately, the mistake only became apparent at the meeting this evening, by which time it was too late to rectify it. CKDCC apologises for the inconvenience. If you wish to make any observations about the Local Development Plan to the Community Council, please either email the secretary or come along to our next meeting on Tuesday 30th June at 7.30pm in Catterline School.

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CKDCC will be holding a PUBLIC  CONSULTATION  MEETING at Kinneff Village Hall, Tuesday 26 16 June, at 7.15 pm for all residents of the community council area, including Braehead, Toucks, Catterline, Kinneff & Dunnottar residents.

Don't miss this special bonus offer of a Consultation Workshop with Aberdeenshire planners on the Main Issues Report regarding the New Local Development Plan. IT AFFECTS ALL OF US. Venue: St Bridget's Hall, Stonehaven AB39 3XL Time: Tuesday 26 May, at 7.00 o'clock

The draft 'Main Issues Report' for the new Local Development Plan is now available online on Aberdeenshire council's web site. It can be downloaded from here.