Ochiltree Community Council News/Info.

23/08/2026

Ochiltree & Skares Community Council will be holding there Election at this months meeting.

20/08/2026

20/08/2026

Chief Executive to retire from Council

East Ayrshire Council’s interim senior management arrangements were approved at a meeting of Full Council today, Thursday 25 June 2026, following formal notification of the former Chief Executive, Eddie Fraser’s intention to retire.

Eddie’s local government career began over 40 years ago, when he joined Strathclyde Regional Council on an employability training programme and took opportunities for development to qualify as a social worker. In 1996 he joined Glasgow City Council before moving to East Ayrshire Council in 1998.

Eddie became Head of Community Care/Chief Social Work Officer in 2008 and then Director of East Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership in 2014. Eddie was appointed Chief Executive of East Ayrshire Council in 2020 - becoming the first social worker to be appointed to the role of local authority Chief Executive in Scotland.

Eddie was also the Portfolio lead for Health and Social Care for SOLACE Scotland, the professional body for Chief Executives and Senior Managers working in local government in Scotland.

Due to family commitments Eddie Fraser is no longer able to fulfil his role as Chief Executive of East Ayrshire Council and as previously intimated, Joe McLachlan, former Director of Finance and Digital, will now officially assume the role of Chief Executive of East Ayrshire Council.

These arrangements will remain in place until October 2027.

20/08/2026

Please Read.

🚙 Pavement parking update: East Ayrshire Council’s Cabinet has agreed that several locations can move forward through the process to become exempt from the pavement parking prohibition.

✋🏻 These exemptions aren’t in place just yet though, and there are still a few steps to complete including the statutory process and, at some locations, the introduction of waiting restrictions.
For now, the existing pavement parking restrictions continue to apply.

✅ Find out more about the proposals: https://orlo.uk/5NZn8

East Ayrshire Council

20/08/2026

📣 Our new LDP3 topic papers are here and we want your views!

As work continues on East Ayrshire’s next Local Development Plan (LDP3), we’ve published a new set of topic papers outlining key issues across the area.
These papers help build the evidence we’ll use to shape future plans, so it’s important we get this right.

The latest topics include:
• Business, Employment and Community Wealth Building
• Brownfield, vacant and derelict land
• Forestry, woodland and trees
• Soils

💬 We’re keen to hear from you as your feedback will help shape the Evidence Report before it goes to the Scottish Government next year.

👉 Take a look and share your thoughts at the link in the comments

🗓️ You can send feedback until 28 August

20/08/2026

This is Brilliant work.

20/08/2026

Ochiltree Community Council is holding there AGM on Mon 21st September. We would love to see new people get invovled.

20/08/2026

Our next Community Council Meeting will be 21st September, At 7pm at the Hub. Please feel free to come along.

04/08/2026

Please help us with this

04/08/2026

Our next community Council meeting Will be held on The 17th August at 7pm.