Kininmonth & New Leeds Community Action Plan ALP Map Community Action Plan 2 Introduction Community Action Plan Kininmonth & New Leeds From New Leeds, the area spreads out eastward, with Located in the North East of Kininmonth growing around the Scotland, six miles from Muckle Causeway of Fraserburgh, 10 miles from Kininmonth which carried Peterhead and four miles from travellers across the boggy acres Mintlaw, New Leeds is a small, of Buchan from Crimond to Old sleepy hamlet of approximately Deer, and was probably the first Planning for Real®. 40 dwellings. piece of major road building in the area, this is now known as The 18th and 19th centuries the Corse or cross of brought major changes to this Kininmonth which meant a area, marshes were drained, road crossing over water. This would dykes, walls and farmsteads were explain the peaty acres of the built, as were new roads and great Mosses of Rora and St. bridges, and shaped the Buchan Fergus. Spread throughout the that we know today. area today, the community is located in one of the most Planned villages were being built attractive areas of lowland throughout Buchan by the Scotland. wealthy landowners to attract tenants, improve their estates Kininmonth School is located on and to increase their wealth. the busy A952 Fraserburgh to Mansions were built, Cairness, Aberdeen road, and is the focal Crimonmogate and Cortes, at point for the Community, and Planning for Real®. Lonmay being fine examples, still whose pupils come from families existing today. spread throughout the area. New Leeds, a planned village by The Kininmonth and New Leeds Captain Fraser of Strichen, was Community Group was brought destined to rival the flax growing together in April 2004 by a and linen weaving industries of concerned Community, School Leeds in Yorkshire (hence the Board and PTA, to look at ways name) and was described in the of making access and parking at 19th century as ‘a city of sin and Kininmonth School safe, for misery’. Another account of the children, staff, parents and village in 1875 said it was ‘a poor members of the Community. In place with only eighteen partnership with Buchan dwelling houses’, and was a Development Partnership a haunt of poachers and smugglers, Planning for Real ® exercise was as well as a joiner who slept in a held in November 2004, which coffin. Thankfully those days are brought the community together over, and the village now has a to look both at the issues thriving community. around the school but also the wider issues that affected the community. 3 Buchan Area Local Plan Community Action Plan Kininmonth/New Leeds: with the local communities, local Buchan Area Plan 2007- community groups, and the 2010 community planning partners - Grampian Fire and Rescue, NHS The Area Plan for the Buchan Grampian, Grampian Police, Area shows the Council’s Scottish Water, Scottish intentions for developments and Enterprise Grampian, View from New Leeds. projects within the Area for the Communities Scotland, BRIDGE forthcoming three years. The (CVS), Buchan Development Plan is laid out under five Partnership and the Buchan headings: Jobs and Economy, Community Councils. Learning, Community Wellbeing, Sustainable Environment and The latest version includes one Developing our Partnership. specific action for Kininmonth but there are many general It is drawn up by the Area intentions in all categories Committee and officers of the within the plan which might Council, based on consultation affect Kininmonth/New Leeds. Specific Actions Heading/Lead service Action/Project Learning Kininmonth School House - to assist the E & R Community Group to gather funds to allow for the creation of a staff and visitor parking area and school-bus drop-off and collection point General Intentions Heading/Lead service Action/Project Community Wellbeing H & SW Local Housing Strategy H & SW/NHSG/LCHP/ Central Buchan - Meeting the needs of Voluntary sector older people. BCSG Community Safety Plan War memorial. H & SW, Joint Health Improvement Plan (JHIP) LCHP/Voluntary sector Sustainable Environment T & I Local Transport Strategy P & E Household Waste and Recycling P & E Rural Buchan Regeneration CE/AM BDP T & I Environmental Improvements Key to Lead Services: E & R - Education and Recreation H & SW - Housing and Social Work NHSG - National Health Service Grampian LCHP - Local Community Health Partnership Street in New Leeds. BCSG - Buchan Community Safety Group T & I - Transport and Infrastructure P & E - Planning and Environmental Service CE/AM - Buchan Area Manager’s Office BDP - Buchan Development Partnership 4 Top Four Priorities Community Action Plan The top four priorities to Car Park at school at emerge from the consultation Kininmonth (Theme: are outlined below Community Facilities) The current parking provisions Footpath between New are woefully inadequate at Leeds and Kininmonth present at the school. There was (Theme: Traffic and Transport) strong support for a new car The speed of traffic along A952, parking facility at Kininmonth Kininmonth School and road. which joins the communities of School for use by staff, parents New Leeds and Kininmonth is a and the community and to major problem, with a significant enable safe and secure access to danger to pedestrians. There was the school and the proposed strong support to connect the community areas without using two villages by a foot/cycle/ the existing school playground, bridle way to enable the local thus ensuring a safe and secure community to make use of play area for the children. proposed and existing community facilities at Road access outside school Kininmonth School safely and (Theme: Traffic and Transport) without the need for other To repair and upgrade the means of transport. private access road from the Corse Road to Kininmonth Traffic Speed (Theme: Traffic School, to enable Aberdeenshire and Transport) Council to maintain and adopt it. Area for future car park. This was highlighted as a major To look at ways of making access problem. The school is situated to the private road safer and to on the main road from Aberdeen consider blocking the junction to Fraserburgh on a bend and with the main road off. the speed of traffic is a problem both for pedestrians and for cars turning out of the school road. Road between New Leeds and School. 5 Other Issues Community Action Plan Other Issues • Community Leisure facilities in New Leeds. The Many other suggestions received community would like this support, and these are listed on but recognise that it is pages 6-9. A summarised Action probably not feasible. Greater Plan can be found on page 10. use of school in Kininmonth with footpaths or transport provided from New Leeds Playing field at school. Community Facilities might be a solution. and activities General: This category Changing facilities and storage provoked the third greatest for use by the school and the response in the consultation football team, or any with a total of 196 suggestions community group/event that for improvements, 27% of the may require to use these total. The theme produced one facilities top priority (see page 5) Other responses under this • An Adventure Playground category include: next to the school was high on the list of priorities in this • A post box at the school, section to be built on the • floodlights for football pitch, playing field, for use by pupils • youth club, Centre of New Leeds. at the school during playtimes, • a local shop/pub, and by families in the • evening/day classes for adults community outwith school and children hours. • To provide a Noticeboard at Kininmonth school for use by both the school and the community, to enable information to be displayed and shared. • To produce a regular newsletter for the community and to distribute it through a network of Mormond Hill. community-based people and through the school. 6 Other Issues Community Action Plan Jobs & the Economy • A vegetable and flower garden and wildlife and General: This category gave one picnic area to be developed of the smallest number of within the existing garden comments with only 2% of the area. This will allow the total. There was no one children to explore and comment that stood out experience the challenge of significantly more than another growing their own produce, Recycling in New Leeds. but the responses included: and environmental projects Community use of fax, copier, such as composting, recycling computer; locally-run gardening and organic produce to be service, public transport to take explored. people to work, evening classes. • Dog Walking area – dog dirt seen as a major problem Local Environment particularly in the community field. The community would General: The comments in this like a specifically designated category focussed mainly on dog-walking area to be set small environmental aside for this purpose. Need improvements. There was a to advertise where dog bins focus on the development of are and provide more bins in Longhill Woods which perhaps suitable places. Offenders reflects the debate on the future need to be reported to Dog Playpark in New Leeds. of that area that was being held warden, with more notices in the press and locally at the detailing penalties. time. This land is privately owned at present. It provided • As well as the top priority of the second largest number of a footpath linking the two responses, 210 or 29%. communities, the need for footpaths linking up with • Adequate Recycling each other to provide facilities need to be suitable walking around the provided both for the community was highlighted. community and the school area. • The tip at Kininmonth and the access road need to be cleaned up. Other issues include: hedging Planning for Real®. and planting around the school. 7 Other Issues Community Action Plan Health and Wellbeing Housing General: In common with other The issues that came up in the Planning for Real® exercises housing section did not, for the there was little comment made most part, involve the provision on health issues, with only 2% of of housing itself.