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May 2021 Issue No 79 BURGH BUZZ Burntisland’s Free Community Magazine Previous issues at www.burghbuzz.org.uk May 2021 Issue No 79 Burntisland Harbour—Access Prohibited? Burntisland Harbour has seen many changes over the years, but one thing that has remained constant is the freedom for generations of townspeople to wander around it. That freedom is now under serious threat. In February 2020 the harbour’s owner, Forth Ports (FP) met with Anne Smith of Burntisland Community Council to inform her that they intended to install fencing which would render the entire east harbour area and all but the extreme east end of the breakwater out of bounds to all but FP The scenic breakwater will be out of bounds to the general public permitted entrants. The reason given for prohibiting public access was Health and physical and mental health; He also pointed #SaveBurntislandHarbour Facebook group Safety (H&S). out that FP’s parent company/owners - PSP where people can post photos and artworks A full account of this meeting was Investments (in Canada!) - clearly state in to visually celebrate the harbour (over 470 published in the March 2020 minutes of the their literature that, “Environmental, social items posted at the last count), and an Community Council but that was right at and governance (ESG) issues are some of Instagram account to match. the start of Covid and seems to have the most significant drivers of change in As the fencing proposal is so controversial, slipped beneath the public radar. Only the world….” recently did the community become aware we’re lobbying our elected Fife Councillors A pretty convincing appeal. But a month to have FP apply for planning permission, of the proposal, and what a terrible shock it later came FP’s response—NO! I then rather than getting it signed off as was! Were it not for Covid it’s likely the fencing would have been installed by last suggested we set up an online petition, “permitted development”. If we’re thinking that if we could muster a couple of successful, the public will then be entitled summer. hundred signatures it might persuade FP to to comment and lodge objections to the Back in mid January 2021 I was chatting to think again. It went live on 24th February planning application. We expect a response local artist and naturalist Leo du Feu about and within 24 hours, 1,175 had signed. The by 6 May. If unsuccessful you, the reader, what a great place the harbour is to go local press picked it up, MSPs Mark can expect a further petition and a call to wildlife watching and just for a general Ruskell and David Torrance and Councillor “Fight the Fence”. wander. Leo expressed what a loss it would Lesley Backhouse all weighed in on our Alan Hobbett has joined the team, bringing be when it became fenced off to us, the behalf, and within a week, Forth Ports were public. This was news to me! We decided professional experience of town planning, suggesting a meeting for “further and we’re continuing to explore every we had to try to do something so Leo dialogue”. avenue to try to ensure that the harbour can drafted a letter to FP’s Senior Port Manager. By now our campaign team had grown to continue to inspire and enhance the lives of include an East Dock neighbour Andy Burntislanders for generations to come. Leo pointed out why the harbour is an Wight-Boycott and High Street shop owner extremely important space for the people of Any significant developments will be and ex-lawyer Louise Humpington. Along published on the Burntisland and Burntisland and listed the wide range of with Anne Smith from the Community #SaveBurntislandHarbour Facebook pages. activities enjoyed by so many; he Council we met with FP’s Senior Port acknowledged the problems caused by the Meanwhile please support us by signing Officer and his deputy on 12th March. But the petition if you haven’t already done so few who mistreat the area and offered to despite making a very strong case against at: chng.it/wqKGDWQLHD or search form a new ‘Friends of Burntisland Docks’, the proposal and demonstrating the strength offering to set up litter-picking patrols, to “Burntisland docks” on www.change.org. of public opposition (2,000+ signatures by You can also sign a physical copy of the enhance the habitat for wildlife and people, now, and lots of heartfelt public comments petition in Grain & Sustain on the High perhaps to design and produce read out at the meeting), they remained interpretative panels celebrating the area’s Street, Covid precautions apply, DO NOT completely uninterested in budging. sign both online and physical copies. history and wildlife, etc; Since then we have spent very many hours Leo suggested that whilst we accept there We would like to thank those individuals researching the history of the harbour, the (too many to name) who have assisted with may be some H&S factors, to simply fence legal complexities and land designations specific issues and the people of off the entire area is far outside the modern and trying, in vain, to obtain the H&S Burntisland for their support. -day spirit and understanding of report which apparently led to FP’s community and outdoor space and of decision. We created the Andy Pay 2 Burgh Buzz ▪ May 2021 BURNTISLAND’S COMMUNITY MAGAZINE Featuring — Local issues :: organisations :: events :: people and more Contents From the Editor Community Council. ....................................................... 3 It is really comforting to again be able to distribute a printed Police Report ................................................................... 4 version of the Buzz throughout the town. Not so comforting however, are the contents of the front-page article concerning CBTRA ........................................................................... 4 Forth Port’s intention to prohibit public access to the docks area, Toll Park and Cot Burn .................................................. 5 including the Breakwater, supposedly on Health and Safety grounds. The article reflects a groundswell of opposition within Local Business Updates………...…. .............................. 5 the community which is supported by further historical, Toll Community Centre .................................................. 5 environmental and public health considerations as outlined in Burntisland Primary School ..................................... 6 & 7 articles on pages 11 and 20. Burntisland & Kinghorn Rotary Club ............................. 7 As a youngster of Primary School age, I can recall fishing for “podlies” from the steps of the East Dock, watching and then Burntisland Playgroup ..................................................... 8 unsuccessfully, copying the mackerel fishermen from the Civic Week ...................................................................... 9 Breakwater - at a time when the dock area was much busier with Burntisland Shipyard FC ................................................. 9 bauxite ships unloading onto railway wagons from the east dock and ferry passengers travelling to and from Granton. At that time, Burntisland Heritage Trust ............................................ 10 the Sailing Club was not located in the dock area but the public Burntisland Bowling Club ............................................. 10 was afforded unrestricted access with no tragic consequences. Burntisland Golf House Club ........................................ 10 Who can remember in the late eighties, joining the throngs of locals watching from the Breakwater, participants in the Tall Burntisland’s Maritime History .................................... 11 Ships Race sailing up the Forth? - also with no H & S problems. A Pandemic of Period Poverty ...................................... 12 Unsurprisingly, the “Save Burntisland Harbour Group” have ReKonnect ..................................................................... 13 been unable to access the H & S report on which Forth Ports’ Burntisland Scouts ........................................................ 14 decision presumably, has been made - I wonder why! Please afford support to the Group in any way you can. Burntisland & District Pipe Band .................................. 15 Another disappointment to me has been the lack of response to Black Rocks Rowing Club ............................................ 16 my article on Community Policing in the winter issue of the The Churches ....................................................... 18 & 19 Buzz. The Scottish Police Authority, Police Scotland and Fife Craigencalt Rural Community Trust ............................. 19 Divisional Headquarters have not even had the courtesy to acknowledge receipt of the printed copies of the Buzz which I Burntisland Bird Watch ................................................. 20 personally posted to them. Earthship Fife ................................................................ 21 Furthermore, the police report on page 3 graphically reflects the The Ecology Centre ....................................................... 21 lack of resources in community policing. Having been alerted to the illegal and dangerous parking which occurs daily outside the Prize Crossword ............................................................ 22 Primary School, what has been the police reaction? - to merely appeal to drivers to park legally and with consideration to others! Editor — Bill Kirkhope Will it require a serious or even fatal accident to spur our community police into taking some positive enforcement action? 39 The Wynd, Dalgety Bay. KY11 9SJ e: [email protected]
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