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Urgent – Purely Scottish Planning Application Deadline for comments Friday 17th April
Purely Scottish have made a planning application for “Extension to building and erection of water tanks”. The OCA committee plan on submitting a comment but would strongly encourage individual responses as these are likely to carry more weight.
A response is required by Friday 17th April 2020
The application can be found here:
Or on the East Lothian Planning site under reference 20/00183/P
You can comment online. How to comment on a planning application can be found here
The email address for comments is environment@eastlothian.gov.uk
Committee meeting, Apr 15th 2020
Committee meeting, Apr 8th 2020
Oldhamstocks Community Hardship Fund
To assist the community during the Covid Pandemic the OCA Committee has set up a hardship fund. This is open to anyone in the Parish of Oldhamstocks (this includes Oldhamstocks, Cocklaw, Dunglass, Bilsdean, Birnieknowes, Stottencleugh, Ferneylea, Woollands etc.)
1. The OCA Hardship Fund (OCAHF) is a discretionary Fund to support unforeseen emergencies and should only be used when all other avenues have been considered.
The Fund cannot replace statutory funding.
2. The OCAHF is designed to provide support to those Oldhamstocks parish residents who are experiencing unexpected financial distress as a direct result of Coronavirus / Covid-19.
3. The OCAHF is there to help with unexpected costs which are unable to be met from either personal or statutory finances and which threaten to impact on well-being, either physically or mentally.
4. OCAHF will prioritise those parish residents experiencing the most severe financial difficulty
5. OCAHF will prioritise items which will have the most benefit to the applicant.
6. OCAHF currently has £5000 available. This will be reviewed every 4 weeks, based on need within the Community.
7. The OCAHF is administered by Oldhamstocks Community Association (OCA) and will be based on applications made directly to us and referrals from the Oldhamstocks Covid Responders (OC19R).
The application form can be accessed as pdf here OCA Coronavirus Hardship Fund – Application Form and Criteria Rev 4 or as a Word document here (once opened click on the download icon at the top right to save a copy)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Lynn Harris, Secretary, Oldhamstocks Community Association info@oldhamstocks.org.uk 07887 950636
OCA Committee Meetings go Online
During the current Covid 19 pandemic the OCA Committe have been meeting more often to try and work out what we can do help the community. With the “stay at home” situation and socially distancing we have switched to online meetings. We have now had four online meetings, obvioulsy it is not quite so easy for non-committee members to join, you can’t just pop into the village hall! However in the interest of transparancy if anyone from the community would like to attend please email info@oldhamstocks.org.uk and we can send you joining details.