Children's Fun Event at Milngavie Heritage Centre this Saturday

Create a Time Capsule at Milngavie Heritage Centre!

An opportunity to take part in a fun activity for the whole family this
Saturday 4th October, at  Milngavie Heritage Centre, which is in the old
Court room, Milngavie Town Hall building.

Come to visit the exhibition and  see a real time capsule from 1896 which
was discovered recently in Milngavie and then have a go at making your own
time capsule. Materials will be provided.

Learn what makes a successful time capsule, be surprised by the sort of
things you could store for future generations and have fun drawing and
writing about yourself, family and friends in a message to the future!

Time Capsule workshop at the Milngavie Heritage Centre is a drop in event,
run on Saturday 4th October from 10.30am until 3.30pm. All children under
8 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Cost: 50p per capsule.

For further details please call Helena Koumbouzis on 07531438282

Changes to postal collections

You may have noticed that some of the post boxes around the estate have stickers on them advising of changes to collection times.  There is not much information on the boxes themselves, but more can be found on the Royal Mail website at:
http://m.royalmail.com/mt/www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/postboxes-faqs

Craigton Woods – CALA TP/ED/14/0673

Many of you asked to be kept up to date with Craigton Woods.

The Association would now advise that Cala have submitted a formal planning application. It can be viewed at
http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/system_pages/planning_applications/planning_application_search.aspx
and enter TP/ED/14/0673 in the search box.

The proposal comprises the construction of 24 detached houses and 10 affordable homes. The affordable houses take the form of 2 no. cottage flat blocks (8 homes) and 2 semi-detached homes. Associated works include tree felling, new tree and hedge planting, landscaping, roads, paths and drainage (including SUDS proposals).

If you wish to make any representation against this application, you should write or e-mail to the contacts detailed below.  The Association would recommend that you do this, as a matter of urgency, before the end of September as we understand that there is a planning meeting of East Dunbartonshire Council soon, although we have recently discovered that we may have until 9 October 2014.  Please quote TP/ED/14/0673 on all correspondence you send. Otherwise your comments may not be considered.

Contact Details:

Planning
Development and Enterprise
East Dunbartonshire Council
Broomhill Industrial Estate
Kilsyth Road
Kirkintilloch
G66 1QF

Tel: 0141 578 8600
Email: planning@eastdunbarton.gov.uk

Some residents have asked for information on what they should include in their response and we have detailed below some of the main items to include, along with your own points. We would stress that there is not much time and you should get any comments you wish to make sent off. Your comments should include the following :-

Craigton Wood currently has the following designations in the existing Local Development Plan and I/We would request that these are maintained in the new proposed LDP.  The area is also included in the Local Biodiversity Plan for the area.

The designations are:-

Historic Garden and/or Designed Landscape
Important Wildlife Corridor
Local Nature Conservation Site
Existing Greenbelt
Area of Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs)
Ancient Woodland

Overall this area is used and valued by the community and visitors to the area. Any development at all will change this.

Doors Open Day, 13th September

A programme is now available for activities taking place at Kilmardinny House as part of Doors Open Day. It can be found on our website.

Further information about Doors Open Day can be found on the EDLC website and also in our blog post of 28th August.

Stone carving workshops in Kirkintilloch

There will be a stone carving workshop on Saturday 13th September 2014.

Please note that booking is essential.

Further information at
http://www.mera-milngavie.co.uk/docs/DOD%20stone%20carving%20workshop%20130914.docx