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Next Meeting: Wednesday 15th January 2025, 8:00 p.m. This will be a hybrid meeting – in person in the Garden room at Killean Village Hall and online via Zoom. Please contact us at ContactUs@KillearnCC.org.uk by Tuesday 14th January if you wish to join the meeting or for more information.
- Unadopted minutes of November meeting
Local Place Plan
Closing soon! Our second phase survey, seeking more specific information about issues which have shown up from the first survey, will close on 26th December. If you haven't already done so, please add your opinions to the 100+ who already have. See our Local Place Plan page for details of how to take part. Thanks again!
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Big Conversation 2025-2026
Stirling Council's consultation on their budget planning for the next financial year has started. Please see the full details of proposals and complete the survey on their website by 2nd February 2025 – everyone is strongly encouraged to take part.
Please note that this is a totally separate thing from KCC's own Local Place Plan consultation!
The Planning schedule for November-December is available.
Update 139 (November) is available.
The Police report to December is available. As a trial, the reoprt covers the whole of the Forth and Endrick area rather than just the Killearn area. This report includes advice on scams and fraud.
Stirling Council's Community Development News (CDNews) Bulletin for December is available from the Community Development news bulletins page on their website. This issue includes: Community Halls event; Start Up Stirling Christmas Appeal; 16 Days of Action; Loans and Social Investment; Growing Help; Funding, CAB winter news; Social Enterprise and more .
Digital Voice. Awareness still seems low about BT's transition from the original landline telephone system to their replacement service delivered over the Internet. BT call this service Digital Voice. If you are unsure of what this is, or what the implications of the changeover mean for you, we have an updated comprehensive report from Doug Ashworth. In it, Doug runs through the issues involved in detail. There are links to much more information if needed. Doug has also produced a document with details of the area's most commonly used phone/Internet suppliers and their arrangements for phone provision after the changeover.
This information can also be accessed via the Digital Voice section on our KBG – Killearn Specific Information page
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We've been contacted by the network provider SP Energy Networks (who are definitely not the same thing as Scottish Power). Anyone living within southern central Scotland, north west Wales, Merseyside, Cheshire and north Shropshire are their customers.
They're looking to ensure vulnerable customers are added or updating their detail on the Priority Services Register. Once added this will ensure that during a power cut that they can tailor the support needed during this period and pro-actively keep customers up to date where possible. We have a leaflet on who is applicable to be on the register. The register applies to households and not the individual, so they can take details for anyone in the residence all under one name (the person filling out the form).
Secondly, we have a leaflet promoting their additional services, which all come free of charge. They've partnered with various organisations that will help make customers' homes as warm and as energy efficient as possible, to help reduce the rising costs of energy. They can also offer home fire safety checks, offer carers support and also look into income maximisation through benefit checks, this has in some cases led to backdated payments.