Making the Most of Milngavie

Making the Most of Milngavie, who recently sent surveys to every household, are holding meetings on 9th & 11th June in Milngavie Town Hall at 7 p.m.  They hope people can come along to one of them.

Time at these meetings will be precious, so they would encourage you to get your thinking caps on beforehand.

Here's an idea of the themes around which they want to encourage debate and ideas:

Improving Community Support
Ideas to help those who are marginalised by age or health issues; befriending the housebound; involvement across the community; workplace experience opportunities; neighbourhood watch; respite for carers.

Improving Green Spaces
Developing local play areas; creation of allotments; improving public paths and walkways for all abilities; enhancing the reservoir area experience; making our sports pitches fit for purpose; a 'masterplan' for Lennox park.

Improving Public Amenities
Better use of CE centre for local activity groups; public toilets; renewable/hydro energy provision; a community social/meeting place; community cinema.

Improving Opportunities for Young People
Preschool toddler services; classes and learning; workplace experiences; facilities for young people; involvement across the community.

Improving the Range of Community Events and Gatherings
Community 'shop' for recycling and lending items; creative/cultural festivals; weekly Lennox Park-run; classes/further learning; Milngavie Week revisited; one stop website for community links and information.

MERA AGM

Our AGM will be held on Wednesday 10th June 2015 at 7.30 p.m. within Clober Primary School and we would extend an invitation to all residents to attend to find out what is going on.

The local police and community support officers will be there together with our local elected members, and there will also be a short presentation by local farmer Mr Andrew Graham of Tambowie farm regarding a renewable energy plant he is proposing.

There will be wine and nibbles.

Please come along if you can.

Local Development Plan

The final draft of the Local Development Plan is now available to view at
http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/ldp

There will be a drop in session on 27 April 2015 from 3 - 8 p.m. at the Fraser Centre, and the Plan is also available to view at Council locations.

Community survey

Making the Most of Milngavie (MMM)is a sub group of Milngavie Community Council who have embarked on a 6 month exercise to produce a Community Action Plan. The first of three steps is to hold a month-long Community Survey. Every household in Milngavie will receive a paper copy before the end of this month.

We hope residents will complete the survey when it arrives.  It can also be completed on-line at www.surveymonkey.com/s/milngavie
Once the results of this survey are collated there will be a serious of meetings for residents to have a say in the shaping of the Action Plan.

We hope that you will be able to take the time to complete this and support this initiative.

Green bin collections

Green bin collection starts from the week commencing Monday 2nd March, which means the first uplift for Mains Estate will be Thursday 5th March.

See the EDC website for more details.