Freuchie Flood Action Group

AGM 7.30 Wednesday 14 April 2010

Lumsden Memorial Hall

1. Attendance and apologies

2. Membership

3. Chairman’s Annual report

4. Annual accounts

5. Programme for 2009/10

14 April Litter Pick Saturday 24 April 12 May 9 June

11 August 8 September 13 October 10 November (Christmas tree Saturday 4 December to Thursday 6 January?)

8 December 12 January 9 February 9 March (Youth consultation) 13 April AGM + regular meeting

Next AGM Wednesday 13 April 2011

Followed by Regular Meeting approx. 7.40 pm Wednesday 14 April 2010

AGENDA

1. Welcome and Apologies

Minutes of the meeting of 10 March 2010

Minutes of the Freuchie in Flower Sub-Committee Meeting 24 March 2010

2. Matters arising from the 10 March minutes

3. Fife Council Matters – Councillors/Locality Manager

4. Treasurer’s Report

5. Planning (to be updated at meeting)

1. New Applications W/E 12/03/10 10/00210/FULL Conversion of existing agricultural workshop into a single dwelling at Freuchie Mill House KY15 7JA; W/E 19/03/10 10/00519/FULL Rear extension to dwelling house at Birchfalls, The Feus KY15 7HR; W/E 26/03/10 10/00587/FULL Erection of 10 dwelling houses at land east of 8 Millburn Place KY15 7HG;
2. Applications dealt with None to date

6. Correspondence (to be advised at meeting)

Matters for decision/action

Matters for noting

7. Other Business

—  Litter Pick Saturday 24 April 10 am — 12 noon

— Impact of recent A912 Roadworks. Impact on watercourses (J

Mullen)

— Multi-use games area update

— Flooding in Freuchie update — Fife Flood Alleviation Report 2009

— Footpath from Green Tree Brae to Dykeside update

8. Date of next meeting will be at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 12 May 2010.

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The Royal Society of Edinburgh is currently undertaking an inquiry into how they can best respond to climate change in Scotland. They are holding a number of public meeting over the coming months, with the first one in Dundee on the evening of the 14th January 2010. This event will take place at the Steps Theatre, Dundee Central Library, The Wellgate and will commence at 6.00pm with an exhibition and tea and coffee available from 5.30pm.

Further information, an event flyer and other venues and dates can be found here.

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During the Community Emergency Planning meeting this week,  the community was joined by representatives from Fife Fire & Rescue Service. We cannot stress enough how much value there was in having Tom Fox (Glenrothes Station Manager) and Neil McFarlane (Deputy Chief Fire Officer) come along to the meeting.

Tom delivered an enlightening and informative presentation, during which he covered everything from emergency planning and procedures, operation capacity, health and safety, equipment available to fight back flood waters and many other areas. It is amazing how much information he supplied in only 15 minutes. 

During the Q&A segment, Neil commented:

We (Fire Service personnel) will put our lives on the line to save your life! It is what we sign up to do.

This was certainly a wow moment! The general public know the emergency services routinely go into dangerous situations, but it doesn’t fully strike home the dedication and sense of duty these brave men and women have in the delivery of public service until you’ve heard it from their lips.

It was incredibly sad to see the death of PC Bill Barker in Cumbria while he was serving the local community. His wife’s words reported on the BBC website illustrate his dedication to serve the public. Freuchie Flood Action Group would like to express our immense admiration for PC Barker’s bravery and heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and work colleagues.

Now back to Neil McFarlane for more insightful words:

In times of flood, we must comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act. We have to work safely and minimise the risk to ourselves and the general public. Property owners do not have the same constraints and may well perform actions that we would not be able to do.

Residents must recognise the emergency services are working within the confines of the law of the land. They have the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the training and have over many years devised safe procedures and systems of work for all the emergency situations they experience. When emergency service personnel instruct residents to perform a certain action it is being done by professionals who assess and deal with life threatening risk every day. Do not ignore these instructions and recommendations or you may end up making the ultimate sacrifice!

FFAG would like to thank both Neil McFarlane and Tom Fox for accepting our invitation to last week’s meeting and Freuchie Community Council for providing the timeslot during the meeting. The information they shared with the community was very enlightening and useful. The whole community looks forward to working more with the outstanding professionals from Fife Fire & Rescue Service in the future, although we do hope it is proactive rather than reactive fire fighting… or maybe that should be flood fighting!

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At last week’s Community Council meeting, it was agreed to organise a community led emergency planning meeting with a view to looking at how flooding can be responded to by the citizens of Freuchie. This is an extension of an idea put forward recently by Freuchie Flood Action Group.

Freuchie Community Council will be hosting a public meeting this week to start to identify and plan for an improved community response to the current flood risk and future flooding events.

The details of the meeting are:

Venue: Lumsden Memorial Hall

Date & Time: 7pm on Thu 19th Nov

All flood affected and at risk residents are especially welcome, along with Freuchie citizens who would be willing to offer assistance in times of flood emergency. This is very much a meeting of what we can and will be doing in the future and how YOU can help to prevent future flood devastation.

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Freuchie Flood Action Group has organised for Flood Stoppers, a UK flood protection product company, to demonstrate their door flood guard products at 10am on Sunday 15th November 2009 down at Freuchie Mill.

Every one with an interest is welcome to come along.

Please let us know you’re coming so we can gauge numbers.

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The Scottish Flood Forum is holding free Business Continuity Seminars down in the Borders.

More information and the booking form.

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Just a little reminder that the Flood Barrier Awareness Day event is being held in Cupar today.

More information here.

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The Scottish Flood Forum is aware there is a good deal of concern regarding protecting properties from flooding.

Paul Hendy of SFF commented,

My continued stance is each home owner has responsibility to protect their property and this is not necessarily the responsibility of the respective Council. In order to promote flood protection products and to let residents see them for themselves I have arranged a number of Flood Barrier Awareness Days to be held in various communities across Scotland.

Details of the Cupar event organised by Paul are below. The Scottish Flood Forum website also has details of other dates in Broxburn and Milnathort if you find you cannot make this one.

Date
Wed 30th Sept 2009

Time
3 – 7pm

Venue
The Cafe – County Buildings, St Catherine Street, Cupar, KY15 4TB

Event Description
The display and demonstration will be done by Rob Turner – who is an independent specialist in flood products. He does not work for any FD company but offers independent impartial advice on what is most suitable and affordable in respective properties.

Following the demonstration he will then arrange a no obligation and free of charge site survey / visit to any one who would like him to look at their properties.

The estimate will then be sent, but no follow up calls, or visits will be done. – Rob has many years in the building trade, and has extensive knowledge and understanding of the problems associated with protecting property.

It is anticipated once we know how many products are required the keenest prices will be negotiated to ensure that savings will be passed on to clients.

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Freuchie Community Council has issued a leaflet to everyone in Freuchie with information on the “Community Development Body” proposed for the village. Hopefully no one got missed in Freuchie.

They are looking for people to take this proposal forward, to build the business structure and to be involved in the delivery of sustainable community projects. A free workshop session, run by the Development Trust Association, has been organised for 6:30pm on Wednesday 29th July at Freuchie Cricket Club. Please fill in the tear off slip on the leaflet if you wish to find out more about the training and how you can participate in bring this body to life.

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Just a little reminder of this evening Public Consultation meeting at Freuchie Cricket Club at 7pm. We are very lucky to have secured two top speakers.

More information in our original announcement post.

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