A busy Kincardine and Mearns Area Committee today. Here are issues of local note:
– We agreed the local public holidays in the Portlethen area for 2018 will be 16 April, 9 July, and 24 September. Is this relevant to anyone any more?
– Among a tranch of grant applications we agreed to give £5000 to Newtonhill Pipe Band towards the cost of jackets and waistcoats. The pipe band will be taking 30 members to Amiens in France next year for the 100th anniversary commemoration services of World War One. Some 500 pipers will be involved. Pipe major Domhnull McLennan gave an excellent presentation.
Others receiving grants are North Kincardine Rural Community Council (£240 towards the cost of a noticeboard at Lairhillock School); Hillside Parents’ Group (£1000 towards the cost of non-fiction books and books for early readers and nursery). More applications are in the pipeline from – among others – Portlethen Community Ambulance and the Skateraw Fair.
– Repair works on a burial aisle structure in the Maryculter Old Parish Church churchyard are out to tender. Blocks have either already fallen off or are in danger of doing so. The churchyard – which is owned by the council – is near to the Maryculter House Hotel.
– Councillors agreed to hold a site visit (on 16 January) regarding a planning application for an industrial development north of West Monduff near the Newtonhill flyover. This application is for the erection of a 12 metre high workshop and storage facilities.