Following meetings with Dumfries and Galloway Council’s park development officer, concept sketches for improvements to the Carrutherstown playpark have now been sent over to the Community Council. The next step is a wider public consultation, so that what actually gets built reflects what local residents would like to see. If you use the playpark, or…

Work on a community resilience plan for Dalton and Carrutherstown is well under way. Members of the Community Council met Dumfries and Galloway Council’s resilience officer to work out how to make the plan manageable for a community of our size, and the draft is now around 80 per cent complete. Once it is finished…

The Community Council currently has six vacancies, and at the meeting of 9 June members voted unanimously to hold a casual vacancy election to fill them. To stand you need to live within the Community Council’s area and be on the electoral register. No particular experience or qualification is needed. What is needed is a…

At the meeting of 9 June the Community Council formally adopted its Local Grant Scheme Applications policy, by six votes to none. The policy has been shared with the administrators of both windfarm funds that support our area. It sets out who can apply for funding, what the money can and cannot be spent on,…

Our next public meeting will be held on Tuesday 11 August at 7pm at Carrutherstown Primary School. Community Council meetings are open to everyone who lives in Dalton or Carrutherstown. There is a slot near the start of every meeting for members of the public to raise something, and you do not need to give…