STRENGTH­EN­ING COMMUNITIES

Skills for suc­cess in Badenoch & Strathspey

TEAM CROM­DALE & ADVIE Big Con­ver­sa­tion — 30^th Octo­ber 2013

HIGH PRI­OR­ITY (num­ber of votes)

• Faster broad­band (13)
• Improvement’s to the Crom­dale Vil­lage Hall (small hall roof and kit­chen) (12)
• Bet­ter play parks (5)
• Spey­side Way — com­munity notice board, more sur­fa­cing work, sig­nage at Crom­dale end (4)
• Bet­ter sig­nage in the vil­lage for cycle/​walking routes to Grantown/​Balmenach/​Speyside Way (4)
• Plant a Christ­mas tree (3)
• Info on vis­it­or attrac­tions (eg Battle of Crom­dale, Hill fort, Pipers Stone) (2)
• Signed moun­tain Bike Trails (Anagach) (2)
• Com­munity Web Page (2)
• Café in the vil­lage hall (2)

MEDI­UM PRIORITY

• Vil­lage Shop
• Walk­ing Trails (eg whisky trail from Crom­dale to Balmen­ach with interpretation)
• Vil­lage Shinty Pitch
• Bet­ter main­ten­ance of Tom-an-Uird field & viewpoint
• Bike/​Skate Park
• Revised speed lim­it for Kirk Road
• Houses built oppos­ite the Crudens
• Bus stop sign to pre­vent parking
• More use of the vil­lage hall (Clubs)
• Bet­ter main­ten­ance of Braes
• Bet­ter use of Vil­lage noticeboard
• Vil­lage camp­site — maybe with a vil­lage shop/​café (near the pavilion)
• Upgrade the foot­ball pitch (to include shinty)
• Improve pic­nic area

LOW PRI­OR­ITY

• Allot­ments
• Road sign to indic­ate 3 way traffic lights on cross­ing bridge
• Lunch Club
• Repairs cairns on Haughs
• Pony Trekking for visitors
• Rail­way walk & view­point (behind Cambrae)

See over­leaf for addi­tion­al notes

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ADDI­TION­AL NOTES

1. Issues from the drop in which have already been set in motion:

   • 10 – 15 mph speed lim­it in Balmen­ach – High­land Coun­cil has com­mis­sioned a speed sur­vey to be com­pleted shortly. Res­ults from this will go back to the Com­munity Coun­cil for fur­ther action
   • War Memori­al – Liz Cow­ie (HC Ward Man­ager) is work­ing on this with HC TEC ser­vices and the Com­munity Council
   • Dis­abled access for ped­es­tri­an bridge – Cllr Jaci Douglas is work­ing with BEAR Scot­land to try and improve the ped­es­tri­an foot­path. Will report back to the Com­munity Council
   • Improved bus ser­vice — Hitrans bid for a bus ser­vice to Elgin. The bid was unsuc­cess­ful but they plan to try again

2. Com­munity Coun­cil / new com­munity devel­op­ment trust to sup­port an annu­al 10K road race from the Pavil­ion up the Haughs and back. To take place in February/​March 2014. Pavil­ion for chan­ging and refresh­ments at the Haugh Hotel. Organ­iser: John Diffey.

3. Com­munity Coun­cil to invest­ig­ate require­ments by com­munity and pos­sible loc­a­tion of small indus­tri­al units for letting.

SUM­MARY

The Crom­dale & Advie ​‘Big Con­ver­sa­tion’ was atten­ded by 18 mem­bers of the Crom­dale com­munity who, fol­low­ing extens­ive ​‘whole group’ dis­cus­sion and open vot­ing, pri­or­it­ised the issues into High, Medi­um and Low cat­egor­ies (see table above).

The inten­tion now is for the two com­munit­ies to form a com­munity devel­op­ment com­pany in the leg­al form of a SCIO (Scot­tish Char­it­able Incor­por­ated Organ­isa­tion), which will be dir­ec­ted by a com­mit­tee of com­munity rep­res­ent­at­ives, elec­ted by the com­munity. The SCIO will then be able to take on a wide vari­ety of com­munity pro­jects as well as own com­munity assets on behalf of the com­munity, whilst lim­it­ing the liab­il­ity of the com­mit­tee members.