Minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 19th February 2009 at 7.00 pm in New Meeting Room, Kyle Village Hall
Agenda:
Present: Mr A R McKerlich (Chair), Mr B Easter.,
Mr C Macrae, Mr T.Harvey, Mr A.MacDonald Mr N.Tasker
Mrs A Sinclair, HC
1. Apologies: Mrs R Macrae, Mrs E Hathway, Mr G.Macrae, Mr C.Morrison, Police rep.
2. Approval of minutes of meeting held on 14th Jan. 2009 was proposed by Mr T.Harvey seconded by Mr C.Macrae
3. Matters Arising
6. New web site. Running one or two days behind schedule but should be ready by the end of
the month ( February)
7. Gap site in main street. Letter read out from Tulloch Group sent by Mr Andrew MacMaster
Director, indicating that they will clear the site. Owing to legal / insurance reasons they can not
open the site for car parking so will be erecting some form of barrier or fence until development
starts.
9.d Co-op intruder alarm appears to have been fixed as no further reports of the system going
off.
9.g Painting of railings between the Cedar Clothes shop and the rail bridge. Response from
Sonia Wayman was that owing to the drop on the other side the fencing was never painted
owing to health and safety. Contact to be made with Sonia to see if they can provide paint and
ask the Village officer if he is willing to paint just the footpath side.
9.h Still outstanding.
9.j Block paving outside Chemist shop and potential trip hazard. Response received from
George Speed and matter to be rectified.
9.k Damaged kerbing at turning down to Ferry slip. This has been rectified..
9.m Planters outside Marine Store. Not responsibility of George Speed but he will pass on our
comments to Sonia Wayman. Relocation not really practical but have requested planting out.
9.n Meeting with Kate Ernshore with ref to Broadford Hospital. Attended by Ross and
Christopher. Owing to the current financial market the NHS are looking at ways to cut their
budget by looking at ways to stop the doubling up of services between Broadford and Portree
Hospitals, e.g. long term physiotherapy will only be carried out in Portree. Each Hospital will
specialise in its own field with Broadford concentrating more on A&E and operations. No
plans are afoot to build any extension to Broadford Hospital at this time.
9.p Railings around Kyle Woollen Shop. Have now been removed after a structural survey
deemed the building to be safe.
4. Police Matters.
PM(a) Mobile speed check units have been set up at the Balmacara Road end of the village as you enter the 30mph speed limit and at the bridge road end as you change from 40 to 30 mph speed limit. Observations so far indicate that traffic has been slowing down but the units do not indicate your actual speed but illuminate just to indicate that you are in a 30mph zone. It was also suggested that the units could maybe be placed near to the village centre as traffic once having passed the units and especially upon approaching the traffic lights if they are on green, appears to speed up. Letter to be sent to Transerve requesting the units to be moved near the village centre, if a suitable place is available without effecting pedestrian walk way, and also are the units capable of indicating actual speed of the approaching vehicle.
5. Electric Bill for Christmas lights 2008
Bill has been received from Highland Council for the sum of £230.00 for the light display over the 2008 Christmas period. The C.C. feel that the bill, considering the poor display, is very unreasonable. Also past correspondence requesting what display could we expect for 2008 was never answered. A letter to be sent questioning the bill.
6. New Web Site.
Last update indicated that the web site was running a few days behind schedule, but the 28th February target date is still looking good.
7. Election of Vice Chairperson
Two names were proposed for the position Mr A.MacDonald and Mr T.Harvey. As the number of members present would have resulted in a split it was decided to leave the election until the next meeting providing we have a full complement of members.
8. Relocation of the bottle bank
Two locations proposed:- the lay by on the Bridge Road and opposite the Clan Garage site. A third site near the new surgery was also suggested but may belong to the Scot Rail or the Harbour Board. Contact to be made with Mr Richmond Clements H.C. for possible relocation sites.
9. Aims of Youth Café.
Mrs Fiona Begg from the Youth Café organisation committee came along to highlight the aims and purpose of the Youth Café to the C.C. In particular to concerns raised by the Kyle Primary School Board about the youth of the village using the Kyle Primary School playground out of school hours and the graffiti that is appearing within the bike shed. The present problem is that the Youth, other than the village hall Youth Café on a Thursday night, do not have any other location to go during the remainder of the week
Fiona also outlined the purpose of the newly formed Youth Community Trust and the need to work with the local community council so as to bring forward future projects. A discussion then ensued about requirements and locations for a possible shelter for the youth out with Thursday Nights.
Also the need for the youth and the C.C. to work together for a better understanding. Now that the C.C. are aware of the requirements we will make a note to include the topic in our agenda for our next meeting.
10. Future car parking around Kyle.
This will appear on the agenda of all future meetings as a reminder until the parking issue is resolved. Several areas have been mentioned around the village e.g. area around the Amazon Fish Factory, additional areas within the swimming pool parking location etc. The C.C. were assured that car parking charges would not be introduced within Kyle until the issue of parking spaces had been resolved. Audrey to check with J.Tolmie on progress of parking spaces and also to check on the ownership of the parking area to the rear of the Post Office and Light House Centre. A letter to be sent to Transerve to investigate / possibility of having the parking lay bay in front of the Post Office marked off into car space bays and how many bays would be possible to organise the parking in this location.
An info point for future ref concerning parking and that is the contractors, who will be carrying out the rock clearing the back of Lochalsh Road, will be using the parking bay for the parking of contractors vehicles.
11. Correspondence
Correspondence received since the last meeting was brought to the attention of the members which covered answers to past matters arising , planning applications etc. One planning application applicable to our area and that is for Mr I.R.Finlayson and erection of house in Erbusaig Kyle. Letter from Wester Ross with ref to Development Plan, to be kept for next meeting as may be relevant to Youth Café support project. Info on the development of open spaces with ref to new builds was past to Terry as may be more applicable to the Housing Association as no new builds presently planned for Kyle.
12. A.O.C.B.
12a. Taste to fresh water supply. Letter to be sent to Duncan Martin Area Manager Scottish Water Portree asking for an explanation.
12b. Water laying on Pladaig Road Footpath. Letter to N.T. highlighting problem area above Doctor Adamsons with ref to water not running off footpath and has been a hazard during the freezing conditions.
No further business the meeting closed at 2045hrs
Next meeting to be held Mid April 2009