by Amanda Coulthard | Jun 27, 2025 | announcement, Announcement, announcementspage, Current Issues, News
Are you interested in getting more involved in the local community? Do you want to make things better for local residents?
Bridge of Allan Community Council is currently looking to co-opt up to four new members to our membership.
We act as a voice for our local community, ensuring local views feed into planning and decision making for our area. As a Community Councillor you’ll be involved in planning for our area, hosting community events, participating in partnership events with other local community organisations and taking forward actions that local residents have told us are important.
We hold 10 meetings per year, taking place on the third Tuesday of each month (excluding December and July) in the Allan Centre.
if you’re interested in joining, or want to find out more, please get in touch with chair@ccbridgeofallan.org.uk. You can apply to join by completing the nomination co-option form and submitting it to chair@ccbridgeofallan.org.uk by Friday 1 August.
by Amanda Coulthard | Jun 2, 2025 | announcement, Current Issues, News, Planning
We need your input to help us finalise our Local Place Plan for Bridge of Allan. After a successful engagement day on 24 May in the Church Hall, our engagement boards are now in the local library until Friday 13 June. If you get the chance please pop in and leave your thoughts on our feedback sheets, or come say hi to us at Picnic in the Park on 14 June at Memorial Park.
Don’t worry if you cant make it in for any reason – there are other ways to stay involved. Our key themes and question areas are laid out below – just drop a comment or an email with anything you want us to capture.
Biodiversity and Greenspace
- what can we do to enhance, protect and increase biodiversity?
- How could we make better use of our greenspace including parks and woodland?
- Do we need more / different opportunities for community food growing
Getting Around, Transport and Active travel
- Is our current public transport provision usable and accessible?
- Is the cycle and walking network sufficient to support active travel?
Housing
- People have told us Bridge of Allan needs more housing. Are there areas in Bridge of Allan that you’d support or oppose for more housing?
- What type of housing would you like to see or do you think we need? This could be 3 bed plus homes, 1-2 bed homes, sheltered housing, starter/affordable homes, flats, or other options?
- What does affordable housing mean to you?
Our Physical Environment
- Do you think we have sufficient parking in Bridge of Allan? If not, where might we need additional parking options?
- What would you like to see happen with the vacant sites around the centre of Bridge of Allan?
- What kind of things do you think should happen with the vacant Guala (plastics/UCP) site?
Drop us an email contact@ccbridgeofallan.org.uk or comment below with any thoughts
by Communications TEAM | May 7, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage, Current Issues, News
Stirling Council’s Senior Active Travel Project Manager is hosting two public drop in sessions to support online engagement on active travel routes that impact on Bridge of Allan. There will be print-outs of designs available and the team will be gathering feedback and answering questions on the whole route. Paper copies of the online survey will also be available. Sessions are:
Saturday 17th May 10:00 – 12:00 and 13:00 – 15:00 at Recyke-a-Bike, Causewayhead
Friday 23rd May 16:30 – 20:00 at the Allan Centre PE Room, Bridge of Allan
Just turn up or register so they have an idea of attendance level: at: https://engage.stirling.gov.uk/en-GB/events/
Both events will also have information about the Manor Powis to Causewayhead active travel route which is currently being consulted on.
Online survey is here: https://engage.stirling.gov.uk/en-GB/folders/north-stirling-active-travel
by Communications TEAM | Apr 14, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage, Current Issues, News
The Stirling Council Sustainable Transport team is developing proposals for the Dunblane to Causewayhead active travel route.
Flora Chirnside, Senior Active Travel Project Manager will attend the April CC Meeting (7.30pm Allan Centre)
A consultation survey on the concept design for the Bridge of Allan to Causewayhead section is now open, until 31 May 2025.
The survey is on the engage stirling website : https://engage.stirling.gov.uk/en-GB/projects/causewayhead-to-bridge-of-allan
The North Active Travel website page includes ideas for the Bridge of Allan to Dunblane section. The community may submit ideas/thoughts by adding a comment on their map: https://engage.stirling.gov.uk/en-GB/projects/bridge-of-allan-to-dunblane
by Communications TEAM | Mar 17, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage, Current Issues, News
We have received notification from BEAR Scotland about the M9 Knockhill Bridge Refurbishment works , an extract follows here:
“ It remains our intention to commence work below this structure in April 2025. Our provisional start date is currently Monday 14th April, however we will provide further confirmation of this nearer the time. You may notice some minor mobilisation activities taking place to set the site up before this date.
We expect the works to be completed by the end of November 2025. For the majority of this period the road will be limited to a single lane of traffic controlled by temporary traffic lights. The maximum width of road that will be left open to vehicles will be limited to approximately 3.5m.
In the interests of workforce and road user safety, it will remain necessary to undertake certain operations with the road fully closed to traffic. However, these closures can now be limited to occasional overnight periods only, in order to minimise disruption. We will provide residents and other stakeholders advance notice of each of these overnight closures as and when their exact dates are known. ”
The full text of the notification is at this link: Bear_Scotland_Knockhill_Bridge_Stakeholder-Update-March-2025
by Communications TEAM | Mar 13, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage, Current Issues, News
Do you want to get involved in making things great in your local community?
We’re looking for Bridge of Allan residents to join the Community Council to help with:
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protecting local greenspace
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promoting our history and heritage
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progressing community priorities
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prioritising community views.
We are looking for three new members to join the Community Council as co-opted or associate members until full elections are held in 2027.
We have been actively working on many different community projects and initiatives, so it is more important than ever that all sections and voices of Bridge of Allan are represented on the Community Council. We are particularly looking for people with skills in communications, social media and web content creation. The role involves keeping up to date with community issues raised, working together to find solutions and helping communicate resident’s views to local organisation such as Stirling Council, Network Rail, developers and businesses. We have 10 meetings a year usually held at the Allan Centre ( our meeting minutes are here )
Though a lot of the activity involves raising resident’s issues and concerns with the appropriate authorities we also organise the Christmas Lights in Henderson street with a Switch-On event, other events such as the annual Service of Remembrance at the memorial park; we worked with Discover Bridge of Allan to purchase the Sunnylaw meadow and undertake maintenance of it; members have been engaging with the community seeking views to incorporate in the Local Place Plan which will feed into the forthcoming Stirling Council Local Development Plan. See our facebook page:
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Who can become a member ?
You can put yourself forward if you live in the Bridge of Allan area , are over 16, and are on the electoral register.
Although currently there is only 1 space for a Co-opted member on the Council, we can also appoint associate members with particular skills or knowledge seeking to broaden both representation and expertise for specific projects/issues. See more here about different types of membership.
To find out more about community councils in general and how they are run see here .
To find out more about the Bridge of Allan Community Council please email chair Amanda or one of the members ( email addresses are on our webpage ‘Your Community Council’) and ideally come along to a meeting!
Next Meeting: Tue March 18th, 7.30pm at the Allan Centre
