Sent on behalf of Councillor Mike Barnacle
Dear Editor
I feel, in the interest of historical accuracy, that I must comment on the report by Councillor Giacopazzi (JG) in your May 2015 edition on the above. My source is the PKC Minute enclosed from which you should note viz:-
It was the meeting of 25/3/15 of the Enterprise and Infrastructure Committee, of which JG is Vice Convener, not Development Management as he stated, which considered this matter of LLA designations.
I had circulated the Committee on 23/3/15 regarding this and enclose same referred to in my letter of 31/3/15 to Planning and Sustainable Development on the Review of our Local Development Plan abridged in your May 2015 edition).
The Minute states there was not cross-party support for the Paper, as stated by JG; in fact an amendment by myself, supported by Councillor Robertson, calling for reconsideration of the Devon Gorge and Cleish Hills as LLA’s was defeated, all 6 members of the Committee from the SNP voted against the community’s wishes on this. Neither the Committee Convener Kellas nor JG attended the Review Panel meetings with the Consultants; if they had done so as I did, they would have been aware of the strong representations made for the inclusion of these areas on merit; I note the subsequent submission from KCT to planning on this matter enclosed.
I thought it necessary to put the record straight and emphasise the request by local members, at their meeting with Planning on 26/3/15m for these areas to be reconsidered for LLA status, as former AGLV’s which the community had fought hard for inclusion in our Local Plan 2004.
Yours sincerely
Councillor Mike Barnacle
Independent Member for Kinross-shire