New faces join Pencaitland’s Community Council

After the recent elections of Community councillors across East Lothian Pencaitland gained two new faces — Alison Glencorse and Robin Sinclair.

Alison Glencorse lives in Pencaitland with her husband Alan and their daughter Charlotte, having moved to the village from the south coast of England in 1994 and having twice moved house since then within Pencaitland.

She works two days a week as a credit manager for the Royal Bank of Scotland plc, and since having her daughter has been involved in local committees and organisations. These include the Mothers and Toddlers group, Playgroup, Junior Scottish Country Dancing group, 1st Brownie Pack, the Parent Council at Pencaitland Primary School, as well as for the National Childbirth Trust, East Lothian branch. She is interested in local issues and looks forward to serving as a Community Councillor.

Meanwhile new community councillor Robin Sinclair and his wife Fiona moved to Pencaitland in 2006 with their twins Malcolm and Evie, who both attend the local Primary school. Robin commutes daily by bus to Edinburgh where he works in IT for an investment firm. He’s a keen golfer and enjoys spending his spare time out on the fairways. He is keen to help the community council continue to serve the village and surrounding area and help represent the wider views of villagers on local matters.

Office Bearers

In addition to the new faces joining your Community Council, the most recent meeting was also an opportunity to elect office bearers. In all there are four elected positions — Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Press Secretary and Treasurer.

Ralph Averbuch remains as Community Council Chairman and also takes on the role of Press Secretary. Phil Summerfield becomes the Vice-Chairman and Jean McCormack was re-elected as Treasurer. Additionally Fiona Tennick has taken on the temporary role of community council secretary until we can find a person willing to take up the post.

A full list of community councillors, ELC councillors and the local community police officer can be found here.

Wider Representation

This now means that Pencaitland Community Council has twelve sitting councillors. According to the constitution it is possible to have a maximum of fifteen, which gives us the opportunity to fill these three remaining unoccupied seats.

The local ward covers more than just the village of Pencaitland, extending to New Winton in the north, Wolfstar Farm to the west, Boggs Holdings, Nisbet and Spilmersford Mains to the east and lastly Peaston, Glenkinchie, Templehall, Huntlaw, Fountainhall and Dodgeridge Farm Cottages to the south.

That’s why the Community Council is keen to hear from people not just from Pencaitland but also these other parts of the ward, or anywhere in-between. We want to have voices from the whole of the ward in order to ensure that, as best we can, all the interests of locals are effectively represented on your local community council.

Could that be you? If you would like to discuss this further why not contact the current chair via email or call Ralph on 01875 340 641.