Springfield Community Council reformed on 6th Dec 2023.
We’ve agreed new dates for the forthcoming year.
Wednesday 7 February 2024
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Wednesday 5 June 2024
Wednesday 4 September 2024 for the AGM.
Further dates will likely be added after the AGM
All held in Springfield Church 7:30-9pm. Meetings are public, just turn up and come in.
We’ve agreed new dates for the forthcoming year.
Wednesday 2 November 2022
Wednesday 1 February 2023
Wednesday 5 April 2023
Wednesday 7 June 2023
Wednesday 6 September 2023
All held in Springfield Church 7:30-9pm. Meetings are public, just turn up and come in.
From Springfield Community Council
Springfield Community Council has held two public meetings regarding this planning proposal in the last two weeks.
In general, Springfield Community Council and residents who attended meetings have very little confidence that Fife Council planning will do anything but rubber stamp this Fife Council affordable housing project. Site clearance has already begun even though the application has not even been considered. There are indications that Springfield residents have already been allocated new houses by Fife Council in the unapproved development !!
Fife Council has already failed to protect the Health and Safety of neighbouring residents. It was informed by ourselves that an asbestos agricultural building was being demolished without proper controls. Senior Fife Council officers were provided with photographic evidence showing that the demolition was not being carried out in an acceptable manner, and they have refused to take action to halt the work on site, despite being requested to do so by Fife Councillors.
The site now should be considered as asbestos contaminated, until further independent evaluation.
This now the subject of a Health and Safety Executive investigation.
Much of the development lies outside the agreed village boundary in the Local Plan. Springfield Community Council opposes the deviation that is being proposed.
Springfield Community Council is not against house building in the village. We are objecting to the lack of mixed types of housing in the proposed development. A mix of private and social housing would be acceptable.
Residents of Springfield do not want the village to become a dumping ground again for solely social tenants, just because there is a lack of social housing being built in neighbouring villages. Social tenants are already over-represented in the demographic mix in Springfield.
Fife Council’s Affordable Housing in Fife have previously stated that this is the first of three phases that will eventually result in more than 120 houses. However, there is a lack of transparency in this application regarding future phases and their impact. The layout plan shows two road terminations that could be activated in the future for further development.
We conclude that Fife Council is carrying out the larger project in phases because developments of less than 50 houses do not trigger various planning thresholds. And that would attract greater scrutiny.
Therefore, this application must be considered as the first phase of a much larger development, with much larger impacts.
The sole vehicular access route passes though the road junction adjacent to the main entrance gate of Springfield Primary School. Most traffic will pass the school gate.
Plans for the first phase of the project (the subject of this planning application) show approximately 60 car parking spaces, and therefore we assume that approximately an additional 60 cars will be moving past the school entrance on a regular basis.
The Headteacher has not been consulted by the applicant about the impact of this proposal.
Crawley Court is already congested in terms of access. And there have been long standing problems with access for waste collection vehicles. We do not consider that the access proposal is adequate or realistic. Residents also have concerns that parking restrictions will be imposed on Crawley Court where there is already a lack of resident’s parking.
The future of the existing lock up garages on Crawley Court is not clear. These are valued by residents, and there is a waiting list for them. As part of the proposed development, Springfield Community Council calls on Fife Council to improve this existing garage provision and add further garage provision.
We’ve got a new set of meeting planned for Springfield Community Council
7:30pm-9pm in the Church Hall on
We look forward to seeing you
We asked people what their priorities were for spending the £34k community benefit payment from the Campion Homes development. This is how people responded.
We also asked people if they had any ideas of other things that they wanted to be prioritised. These comments did not have strong common themes (apart from filling potholes which we can’t use the community benefit money for). You can see all the comments in the full report SCC Community Consultation Apr 2018 v1 one slide per page
If you want to be part of this, come to our next meeting on 13th June, 7:30pm at the Church Hall
For full results go to Resources
There have been complaints about landline quality for sometime in the village. We wanted to find out how common these were.
The results show that most people who responded had ‘occasional noise’ or ‘noise some of the time’. Only a minority stated ‘clear as a bell’.
The providers of landlines are shown below. However, these are just retailers. All landlines in Springfield are provided by Openreach via these retailers.
We are intending to ask Openreach to address these problems.
There were 5 postcodes with two or more responses complaining of poor service; they were:
If you are affected, come to our next meeting on 13th June, 7:30pm at the Church Hall
For full results go to Resources
Home broadband speed is good in Springfield for most people that responded.
Reliability is also good or adequate for nearly everyone that responded.
For full results go to Resources
Mobile phone coverage was generally found to be good or adequate though there were some complaints about EE reception since the O2 mast was installed in the village.
For full results go to Resources
What’s in the consultation ?
1 What do you want to do in Springfield that you can’t do now?
There is a Community Benefit payment of £34,000 from housing development by Campion. We think that the residents should have a say on how this is spent. TELL US YOUR PRIORITIES.
2 Landline phone – Some residents experience noise and interference on their landline. How is your landline now?
3 Home Broadband – How’s your broadband speed and reliability at your home now?
4 Mobile phone – How’s your mobile phone reception at your home now?
TELL US HOW IT IS – ONLY THEN WE CAN WORK FOR IMPROVEMENTS !
From 2 April 2018, the hours for Cupar recycling centres has changed.
Ladybank still open every day.
Springfield Community Council 