Charity night

Maureen MacKay, a local resident, is organising a charity night in aid of St Margaret's Hospice, Clydebank. It will be held on 1st June 2013 in St Andrews RC Church Hall, Bearsden.

The evening will take the form of a quiz starting at 8 p.m. followed by a well known local band "The Turn" which is made up of some local members of Mains Estate. The Turn will perform from 9.30 till 11.30 p.m. There will be a light supper and a bar selling red and white wine, bottled beer and soft drinks.

Tickets are on sale now and cost £15.00. If you would like some you can obtain them by calling Maureen on 0141 956 3944. This promises to be a most enjoyable evening for a good cause.

Forthcoming events

Milngavie Community Council AGM, 1st May

Milngavie Community Council is having its AGM on 1st May 2013 at 7.30 p.m. at the Fraser Centre, to which all are invited.


Trails and Tails exhibition, 2nd May

This is at 7 p.m. on 2nd May 2013 at Baljaffray Primary School. It is for the proposed Heritage Trail where ideas can be submitted. See also the s1Milngavie website

Tree preservation order for Milngavie town centre

We like Milngavie have requested that the following petition by the Community Council should be publicised:

Trees which contribute to the amenity of an area may be protected by a Tree Preservation Order (TPO). Milngavie Community Council has raised a petition requesting that EDC place such an order on the area of trees south of Woodburn Way which surrounds the railway station, fish ladder and Tesco's Gavin's Mill site. Note that the trees on all sides of this area are already protected.

We Like Milngavie strongly supports this petition, since these trees contribute greatly to the attractiveness of our town and their loss would change the area completely. Full details are on the Community Council's website:

http://www.milngavie.org/petition/about.html

We hope that as many people as possible will sign the petition before it closes at the end of the month. Please help in one or more of the following ways:

1. Sign online - this is quick and easy - see web link above.

2. Email your contacts to do likewise.

3. Sign a paper copy in the village on Saturday, 27th April.

4. Print a paper copy of the petition from the weblink above and collect signatures from friends and neighbours - even a few will help! These may be handed in to the Information Centre in the village (next to the Fraser Centre) by 30 April.

Please do not sign both paper and online versions of the petition.

At present there is nothing to stop these trees being felled at any time - perhaps simply to make way for large advertisements. This has happened already at Kwik Fit!

Note also that Tesco's previous application would have resulted in the felling of about 150 mature trees. Yet despite numerous objections from the community, planning officers gave no consideration in their report to the impact this would have had on the town centre environment.

Waitrose - public hearing to be on 24th April

A public hearing regarding the application by Waitrose to build a new store in Milngavie will take place on Wednesday 24 April 2013 at 5.30pm in Milngavie Town Hall, 71 Station Road, Milngavie.

A pre-hearing meeting will be held so that all those who have submitted representations in respect of the above application and who wish to take an active part in the public hearing can be informed of the procedures for the conduct of the hearing. This pre-hearing meeting will take place on Wednesday 17 April 2013 at 5.30pm in Milngavie Town Hall.

Please see also the Milngavie Waitrose website at http://www.waitrosemilngavie.co.uk/