www.crabpublishing.co.uk CRAIL MATTERS W/C 20 March No 7 incorporating About Crail Free Denburn Dispatches The Charity Trustees’ Heavy rain on Toolkit and the role of the the first Satur - day of March Charity Chair bumped dig - Crail Matters has been informed of a seminar to be ging in Den - held in Perth on Tuesday 25 April at 6,30pm on The burn Wood to Charity Trustee Toolkit, and The role of the Charity the following Chair. The Seminar will be held in The Soutar The - weekend, but atre at the AK Bell Library, York Place, Perth, and the merry is organised by JH Mitchell, Solicitors. band of volun - If you would like to attend, please contact colin.lid - teers made up [email protected] to request a Booking Form. for the delay Places are £10 per person for either or both ses - by raking the sions and all proceeds will be donated to this year’s paths, by nominated charity PKVAS, Scottish Charity Num - making a start with planting a new flowerbed, and ber SC005561. Given the number of Charities op - by tackling all sorts of spring-time miscellanea. We erating from Crail, and some of the difficulties they also wrestled a couple of boulders away from the face, this may be considerable relevance. lawn: the conveniently bum-compatible stones found a new occupation as seats under the corkscrew willow. Clearing the burn continues bit by Planning Notices bit, and a few spadefuls at a time we are finding - Two storey rear and side extension to dwelling - uses for the soil dug out from the channel. The first house (Non-material variation to 16/03749/FULL bloom of spring flowers has already faded but helle - for two storey rear extension) - 30 Bow Butts Crail bore, lesser celandine, lungwort and daffodils are Anstruther Fife KY10 3UR all looking cheerful, and on sunny days the blue - Erection of a domestic garage and formation of anemones are impossible to miss, so carry on vis - gate and fence - 22 Pinkerton Road Crail iting! The litter-picking round in March was unusu - Anstruther Fife KY10 3UB ally quick; thank you for taking your rubbish with - Two storey extension to rear and external alter - you! Your friendly neighbourhood Denburn Diggers ations - 17 Castle Street Crail Anstruther Fife will continue gardening (and picking up rubbish after KY10 3SJ those few incapable of common decency) on the - Alterations and single storey extension to first Saturday of April at 10 a.m. dwellinghouse - 5 Balcomie Road Crail Anstruther Fife KY10 3TN - Erection of poultry unit comprising of 3 poultry houses, service building and 3 feed silos with as - Monday Club sociated infrastructure including 4 gas tanks, ac - cess, parking, drainage and boundary fencing - 20 March at 2.15pm in the Community Hall Airdrie Farm Lochton Crail Fife -Listed building consent for internal and external alterations including replacement door formation AGM, and “Stories” of new path and opening in existing boundary wall Judith Hutton Doocot Park Nethergate Crail Fife KY10 3TY 1 NOTICE OF PROPOSED ORDER TO EXEMPT LAND FROM ACCESS RIGHTS LAND REFORM (SCOTLAND) ACT 2003 THE FIFE COUNCIL (THE RICOH BRITISH WOMENS OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP, KINGSBARNS) (EXEMPTION) ORDER 2017 Notice is hereby given under section 11(2)(b) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Act”) that The Fife Council proposes to make The Fife Council (The Ricoh British Womens Open Championship, Kings - barns) (Exemption) Order 2017 (“the Order”) under section 11(1) of the Act. The effect of the Order will be to exempt (i) between 0600 hours on 31 July 2017 and 1900 hours on 7 Au - gust 2017 the Kingsbarns golf links, the adjacent car park a section of the coastal path, and fields to the south west of the golf links, all as shown outlined in red on the plan attached to the Order, from the access rights which would otherwise be exercisable in respect of that land by virtue of Part 1 of the Act. A local alternative route for the coastal path will be available during the currency of the Order, the details of which will be posted at both ends of the path. The purposes for which the Order is made are to allow a charge to be made for admission to The Ricoh British Womens Open Cham - pionship and to provide for public safety and security prior to, during and after the event. It is proposed that the Order will take effect from 06:00 hours on 31 Red - area included in Exemption Order. Yellow - alternative route for Fife Coastal Path July 2017 and will ex - pire at 19:00 hours on 7 August 2017, unless revoked earlier. Full details of the pro - Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. posed Order together © Crown copyright and database right 2017. All rights reserved. airvine Ordnance Survey Licence number 100023385. ± Prepared By: Parks & Countryside Aerial Photography © copyright Getmapping. Service: Scale: with a Plan showing 1:15,486 Printing Date: 07 March 2017 the land affected may be examined during normal working hours at Reception, Rothesay House, North Street, Glenrothes and on www.fifedirect.org.uk. Objections or representations in respect of the Order may be made to the Head of Legal Services, Fife House, North Street, Glenrothes, KY7 5LT for consideration, no later than 21 days after publication of this Notice. These should be made in writing by post to the above address or email to [email protected] and in the case of objections, the grounds on which they are made should be stated. Morag Ferguson Head of Legal Services Editorial comment This order does not relate to the intention of Fife Council to close the access road to the beach and It would seem that objections to this will not be covered in the formal process outlined above; objectors to this should therefore presumably contact the local Fife Councillors. 2 Book bonanza! Sale of pre-loved books – adult fiction, non-fic - Crail Matters tion and children’s old and new favourite authors Funding Crail Town Hall Saturday and Sunday 1st and 2nd April 2017 As readers will know, Crail Matters depends on 10am-5pm all day both days voluntary donations to survive. We are very grate - Admission free All welcome! ful to the group of anonymous donors whose reg - ular donations makes publication possible. 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Our current distribution is of the order of 750 copies per week, and our digital distribution num - bers are consistently growing. If you currently take the print issue, but have access to a computer, we would urge you to subscribe to the digital edition - the quality of photographs is so much better. Thank you for your support Letters to the Editor Corn bunting area proposal can make out my dad Jimmy Calder is in the back Crail Matters has received a number of letters in row far left under the picture. support of the proposal for the Corn Bunting area It's a bit fuzzy but there at Bow Butts. are few others who look familiar but would Closure of Kingsbarns Beach need to see original to Crail Matters has received a number of letters ob - be sure. jecting to the proposed closure of the coastal path Kind regards and the beach. Shona Irvine Crail Scouts Re the photo of Crail scouts. The venue will be the Addendum after seeing a higher quality picture: scout hall which was in Rose Wynd. From what I It's not my dad, I think it's Robert Peebles. 3 WILD CRAIL Will Cresswell, with Photographs by John Anderson I took the day off last Thursday to work on the path ones that are easy to notice. There are many more across the pond in my back garden. I was hoping that just keep their heads down and just keep that all day just outside in Crail would pay off with feeding, eager to be on their way. I hope this early something of interest flying over. Things are start - bird is a sign of an early spring – I may have seen ing to move now and there was a steady passage a wheatear on my way to Anstruther that morning of meadow pipits all day. After an hour or two I as well. It flew over the car so I couldn’t clinch its thought I heard a chiff-chaff calling but it was only white rump, and it was silhouetted. It just looked one call – luckily a few minutes later I heard it like a wheatear – something in the way it flew - and I bet it was.