Kinross-Shire Music Festival Takes Place in ‘What Is a Local Councillor For?’ and to Focus the Question, November
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[email protected] The Newsletter reserves the right to refuse or amend any advertisement or submission and accepts no liability for any omission or inaccuracy. Editor Eileen Thomas Typesetting and Layout Tony Dyson Distribution Lee Scammacca Advertising Ann Harley Treasurer and Subscriptions Ross McConnell Word Processing Julia Fulton 2 Letters Editorial Councillor Giacopazzi versus the People Support your local music festival I’d like to raise a general question with Newsletter readers: The second Kinross-shire Music Festival takes place in ‘What is a local councillor for?’ And to focus the question, November. (See article on page 10). The event has it might be useful to look at a specific event. On something for everyone, is bigger than last year’s and has 26 September 2012, the Development Management famous Scots songstress Barbara Dickson as the star Committee of P&K - popularly known as the ‘planning attraction. Members of KLEO have worked very hard to put committee’ - examined an application made by a Blair on this fantastic array of entertainment but good support is Atholl resident to build two houses at Hatchbank. The needed from the community for the festival to succeed. residents objected, not least because no phosphate January… February… mitigation details were available. Phosphate mitigation is a Humming a Barbara Dickson song gives a timely reminder very serious issue; unchecked it will have grave economic that we do not publish a Newsletter at the start of January. and environmental effects on Loch Leven. Cllr Mike Therefore if your community group is organising an event Barnacle supported the Kinross residents to the hilt. to be held in January that you would like to publicise in the However, his efforts were undermined by Cllr Joe Newsletter, notification would need to be inserted in the Giacopazzi, who moved to approve the application. December issue (deadline 16 November). Please note, Cllr Giacopazzi did not merely go along with other P&K committee members, he actually proposed Note to Contributors approving an application that Kinross folks opposed. And A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by local clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted in good he was not finished there. Another councillor raised a faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually accurate question about the effect of increased traffic on the single- and do not contain material which could cause legal proceedings track road at Hatchbank. Cllr Giacopazzi stated this was not to be taken against the Newsletter. an issue because while the road is narrow it is little used. Letters Policy Nothing could be further from the truth, as anyone familiar Senders must supply their name and address, which will be with the neighbourhood knows. Hatchbank Road is published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not experiencing greatly increased traffic flows, with horse- contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken boxes and numerous motor vehicles; and recently many against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily agree more vans. with any of the views expressed on the Letters pages. In special To substitute ignorance for facts is the antithesis of circumstances addresses may be withheld from publication on planning, and is likely to further erode confidence in the request (but must still be supplied to the editor). P&K planning process. What was said is inexcusable, and Note to Readers: Advertising the community is very aggrieved. However, in a spirit of Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any conciliation we ought to acknowledge that Cllr Giacopazzi particular endorsement or recommendation of services or is somewhat new in the job, so may I suggest that he meets companies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. soon with Hatchbank residents to discuss with them the role Abbreviations : of a local councillor? 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