March Community News Sheet
Stirling Council have issued their March Community News Sheet. As always it’s full of useful information and is well worth a peruse.
Stirling Marathon Update for Residents & Businesses
Stirling is hosting the Stirling Scottish Marathon and the inaugural Stirling Scottish Half Marathon
on Sunday 29 April 2018, and we are writing to let you know about the road closures and
traffic management in place on the day, which will help us make sure the event runs safely
and smoothly.
The marathon and half marathon are being supported by Stirling Council and in conjunction
with Great Run, and are expected to attract around 6,500 runners. The events will start from
0830, on Millennium Way (A84) and finish on King’s Park Rd in the City Centre. The aim of the
marathon and the half marathon is to help people become more active, challenge themselves
and have fun. These events are also fantastic for promoting Stirling, Doune, Dunblane, Bridge of
Allan and Clackmannanshire.
Before and during the events it will be necessary to implement a number of road closures along
the route between 05:00 – 22:00 on Sunday 29 April. The event scheduling also requires a closure
of King’s Park Rd from Drummond Place roundabout to Snowdon Place on Saturday 28 April, this
closure will go in at 05:00 with the road re-opening 22:00 on Sunday 29 April.
The management of the roads have been agreed with Stirling Council and will be phased, with
closures from 05:00 – 09:25; and re-openings from 09:30 – 22:00. Please note that these times
are guidelines and emergency vehicles will have managed access at all times.
The roads used by the events are listed in the table on this leaflet. If you require more
information relating to specific times and roads, please go to greatrun.org/stirling.
The roads will be reopened in a structured manner, following the last runners in the events. Event
infrastructure will be removed and the roads cleaned ahead of them re-opening.
We would ask you to please ensure that cars are not parked on the route (see list of roads
used by the events in the table opposite). If you can tailor your travel plans around the timings
of event day, we will make sure the roads are closed and re-opened in a safe and timely
fashion.
Please take some time to read this information and refer to the website
(greatrun.org/stirling) for more in depth detailed information relating to the route, closed
roads and the timings associated with the closures/re-openings, as well as how to get involved
on the day with regards to supporting and spectating
Basic Food Hygiene Course
Due to the popularity of the Basic Food Hygiene Course last week, Stirling Council have organised another one on-
Thursday 26th April 2018, 9.30am–12.30 pm at the Braeport Centre, Dunblane.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-stronger-communities-201718-tickets-29606216992
Community Grant Funding Opportunity
Stirling Council is delighted to announce the launch of a new Community Grant initiative for 2018 funded through the Glasgow 2018 European Championships cultural programme.
You can apply for up to £2000 by deadline of 3 April 2018. The Festival 2018 Our Place Fund Stirling is about creating artistic and cultural projects which celebrate the people and talent of your area. If you have an idea for an arts activity this could be for you. The activity must take place within the Stirling Council area between 30 June – 12 August 2018.
Full details are within the attached Guidelines and Application Form. If you wish to discuss your project idea please contact Fiona McLean or Carolyn Paterson:
mcleanf@stirling.gov.uk 01786 237528 patersonc3@stirling.gov.uk 01786 274023
If you have any queries about the application process please contact Jean Cowie: cowiej@stirling.gov.uk 01786 233143
(a word version, for electronic completion, of the application form I also attached
To keep up to date with funding opportunities register on our Funding Stirling website: http://stirling.fundingscotland.com/
Our Place Fund Stirling Application Form
Updated Waste Collection Calendar April 2018
See attached the Waste Service Collection Calendar for April onwards, this will be distributed week beginning the 19th of March (Monday) 2018, it will be going to all households.
Also attached is a coloured spreadsheet showing the difference in the waste streams collected, you will notice the current collect system requires us to change streams on Thursday night into Friday morning and change again Sunday night into Monday morning. This requires changes to vehicle set ups, the transfer station material allocation, reduces the ability to collect missed / non presented bins due to different material in the vehicles (2 changes per week), so we are moving to the same two streams for 7 days (1 change per week). The rotation will take place over the 6th 7th & 8th of April, you will notice on the Friday, Saturday & Sunday calendars there is a note highlighting the move. This will result in the properties this weekend receiving a Grey bin collection two weeks in a row and they will also receive an additional glass collection. This is for one weekend only, extra resources have been scheduled for these collections.
In addition there is a note at the bottom of each days calendar explaining the new arrangement for the supply of Biobags for food waste. Due to operational issues we are moving away from the delivery of these on the bin collection day, this was incredibly difficult to control, we had no way of checking who was requesting the bags, whether they were actually receiving them, it was also another operation that the operatives had to deal with that slowed down the collections and so on and so on. These will now be available for collection from local libraries, waste service representatives are meeting with library staff next week to discuss the booking out and stock control etc
