EDDLESTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY COUNCILMONTHLY MEETINGSMeetings take place in the Village Hall every month during the school year - usually on the 4th Wednesday at 8pm except for July, August and December. These meetings are open to the public and there is an opportunity to 'have your say' on matters which concern you. Have a look at the Events page for more details. You can also download the minutes, agendas and annual accounts from the online library STOP PRESSClick on the link to see SBC's Planning Brief for Burnside
http://www.tinyurl.com/j5yz4  COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEMBERSAbove are EDCC Members elected in June 06. With no new members seeking election, those retiring in June 2007 were re-appointed for another year so the overall composition of the CC remains the same. We are always looking for new blood so if you would like to join, do please get in touch. Elections are coming up 0n 28 June 08 - more info and nomination form is in our online library EDCC covers the area on either side of the A703 from Leadburn to the Mailingsland Crossroads. It is non-political in nature and acts as a conduit to and from Scottish Borders Council on matters relevant to the community. EDCC views are taken into account on all major planning applications and it is given the opportunity to comment on a wide range of SBC reports at the draft stage. Given the attendance of SBC councillors at meetings, as well as allowing opportunity to speak directly to them, it provides a mechanism for identifying the best way to approach SBC on a range of matters. Like all the other clubs and societies in the village EDCC makes a difference to village life. In the past year or so, EDCC has had two notice boards erected in the village; purchased Christmas lights for the village hall; had the bus-shelter in the centre of the village painted; and initiated repairs to pavements in the village.
| Eddleston District Community Council was set up in 1997. Established under the Local Government Scotland Act 1973, its role is to represent to the local authority, the views of the community and to take such action in the interests of the community as appears to it to be expedient and practicable. Scottish Borders Council have a duty to consult us on a range of matters which affect us - e.g. the delivery of local services, and all planning applications  The picture shows one of the two noticeboards bought last summer with the help of a grant from Scottish Borders Council to whom we are most grateful. As you can see, this one is sited at the Old Orchard. The other one is in Bellfield Road close to the church. Notices are primarily for Community Council Business but we are happy to help publicise other village events so if you have a notice you would like to display, please contact Kathy Greenwood on 01721 730654 or email via the web site CONTACT DETAILSThe council is made up of eight elected members together with our three local Scottish Borders Councillors - Neil Calvert, Catriona Bhatia and Willie Archibald. Also actively involved is our Community Police Liaison Officer - PC Alan MacDonald.
| CHAIRMAN'S ANNUAL REPORT 2007Hot Topics in the past year highlighted at the June AGM by Vice Chairman - Colin MacDonald - have been: - Local Planning Matters
- Village website
- Flood Defences
- Village Spring Clean
- Floral Gateway Competition
- Village Christmas Tree and lights
- Senior Citizens' Christmas Party
With particular thanks to Jonathan for all his efforts, knowledge and experience of planning matters, to Ted for co-ordinating our Flood Defence programme and the Senior Citizen's Christmas party, to Stuart and Darnhall for giving us such a lovely Christmas tree, to Margot for all her work as Secretary and Treasurer and for organising our new lights, to David for help with the electrical work and to Kathy for on-going work on the website and for securing a grant from SBC to help keep us up to date. LOCAL PLAN UPDATEThe Local Plan has been many a long month in consultation with the 'final' version just about agreed. What this means for Eddleston is that only one site remains in the plan - the one at the top of Burnside. The main reason for this (in addition to the potentially more serious flooding problems with the other possible sites), is the consensus within the village that we don't want more than one site to be approved and that we don't want more than 20 houses in total, of which around 15% should be designated as affordable housing. This is the smallest of the suggested sites with the others allowing for potentially many more houses. Should a planning application be submitted, a full Flood Risk Assessment will be carried out. This would look at the impact on the watercourse and assess what mitigation measures would be needed.
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