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The Memory Walk has taken place each year since 2023. The 2025 walk was held on 22 June at Barrfields Stadium for Dementia Friendly Largs, and the 2026 walk at Barrfields on 21 June, open to all. An application to the Common Good Fund towards it was successful.

The community garden carried seasonal displays through 2025 and into 2026 — Easter, VE Day, a summer display, VJ Day in August, the Viking Festival, Hallowe'en, Remembrance and Christmas, then a World Cup theme in 2026. CCllr Adair and residents of Sandringham took over the flower beds, and a local resident donated large plants. Thanks were recorded at the 2025 AGM to Fiona Stevenson for the artwork and to the members who work in the garden. The garden costs about £150 to £200 a year and LCC is considering ways to raise it.

Love Largs emoji litter signs were displayed at the school and around the town through 2025, and continued to go up during 2026 — at Bake n Bite in February and Fishworks by June. Separately, in February 2025 the Academy's newsletter highlighted pupils dropping litter, and LCC agreed to supply additional posters for display throughout the school at a cost of about £90. One spare sign remained.

Railfuture was invited in August 2025 to discuss strategies for lobbying for improvements to the North Coast line, including faster and more frequent services and enhanced services in summer and for events such as the Viking Festival. Railfuture attended the February 2026 meeting and set out its aims for rail passengers. The improvements sought for Largs were shorter journeys, more capacity, fewer stops, twice-hourly trains and better punctuality, and it was suggested that the clash between the Viking Festival weekend and the Ayr air show be raised with the MSP for a question to the Minister for Transport. The advice recorded was to form a rail user group, engage with ScotRail's Strategy and Planning Director, and raise the service as a campaigning issue. Two actions followed: to identify the successor to the previous ScotRail director, and to request the cancellation rate for Largs under freedom of information. By March and April 2026 cancellations of services from Largs to Glasgow were reported to be down in number, and the successor had still to be identified. In June a document on ScotRail's performance on the Largs line was circulated, and LCC was to consider writing to the company about it.

Concern was expressed in November 2025 about the closure of Farmfoods and its impact on the town. LCC wrote to the company; the closure being a commercial decision, little could be done, and CCllr Woodburn agreed to continue pursuing it. Following the closure, a licensing application was received in March 2026 for a proposed grocery store in the former premises, to which the Community Council recorded no objection. The loading bay outside is to remain, no order having been received to remove the loading restriction.

Reports were raised of counterfeit notes circulating locally, having been passed to businesses in the town. The notes feel slightly different, and the silver vertical hologram strip can be peeled away. It was agreed the problem should be communicated to residents to increase awareness. The Bank of England publishes guidance on checking notes.

It was agreed in 2025 to invite senior officers to a meeting. The Ayrshire Police Divisional Commander attended in March 2026 and set out local policing priorities, the review of resourcing in North Ayrshire, and the establishment of community investigation hubs. The public were encouraged to report all crimes, with reports able to be made online and the police front desk staffed during office hours.

The Chair told the November 2025 meeting that he wished to step down from early 2026, and an interim Chair was sought to serve until the elections. CCllr Stewart took over as interim Chair in January 2026, and tribute was paid to the outgoing Chair.

One vacancy on the Community Council was recorded in May 2025. Kerry Canning was appointed to the Community Council in November, proposed by the Chair and seconded by CCllr Low Thomson, and Alexander Hughes was appointed an Appointed Adviser for youth, proposed by CCllr Woodburn and seconded by CCllr Canning.

The possible loss of a school crossing patrol was raised at the February 2025 meeting as one of the budget proposals, to be decided at the Council's budget meeting later that month. That budget, on 26 February 2025, approved removing the patrol at the junction of Glenacre Avenue and Alexander Avenue, beside the primary school. A Freedom of Information request by CCllr Woodburn found the assessment had been carried out between 4pm and 4.30pm, well after the school comes out, and referred to markings for a mini roundabout that does not exist there. LCC challenged the assessment as invalid and wrote to the Head of Service and the five elected members. Cllr Murdoch stated that councillors had not been presented with the report on which the decision to reduce the number of patrols was based; it was obtained through the Freedom of Information request. In May the Council acknowledged the flawed assessment and reversed the decision. The minutes record that reversal for other areas which lost their patrols was not supported.

The application for a community minibus was successful and the full amount of the grant was awarded. Largs Thistle is the owner and keeper of the vehicle.

A protest at Largs station was announced for the morning after the January meeting, over cuts to the hours of ticket office staff, and concern was recorded about the impact on the public. ScotRail's Strategy and Planning Director, Scott Prentice, attended the February meeting and answered questions on journey times, carriage numbers and staffing on evening trains. On the ticket office he said the change was to the office's opening hours rather than to staff hours, with the same number of staff and their duties altered to spend more time on the platform.

Access to Food work through the year was supported by funding from the Stakis Foundation, which enabled LCC to support Christmas dinners at Largs Naz Church, the weekly Common Ground meals, and Christmas dinners at Brisbane Evangelical Church for the Team Challenge group. The Foodbank and Largs Food Hub were also supported.

Community cinema showings ran during the year. The charge changed to a flat fee of £100 a showing regardless of screen size. Suggestions for films were invited, and a buffet alongside a showing was raised as something that might be trialled. LCC agreed to apply to the Participatory Budget to host a movie night for families, including those with additional support needs, with food, in January or February. A school cinema event at Barrfields was recorded in November as unlikely to go ahead this year.

The accounts for the year ending 31 August 2025 were audited by North Ayrshire Council and approved at the AGM. At the year end the Admin account stood at £1.05, the Project account at £3,990.17 and the Cinema account at £678.07.

Concern was raised in July 2025 about sight lines when leaving driveways on Waterside Street because of parked cars, and separately about traffic at the bottom of Waterside Street and Main Street and the state of the pavements. Both were referred to the elected councillors as the route to take them forward. In September North Ayrshire Council advised that none of its criteria were met for any work on Waterside Street.

In response to concern about the number of shops selling vapes, it was reported that licensing will not be introduced in Scotland, because vape shops are regulated through a mandatory retailer register.

The Access to Food group met on 9 September and agreed updated terms of reference to reflect changes in Community Council membership.

Concern was raised in May 2025 about £1.3 million allocated for a wind turbine at the i3 site in Irvine without public transparency, with no papers available and no reply from the elected members to an enquiry. A Freedom of Information request was made about the disposal of the site, and the response was received after the original deadline had passed.

Largs Community Council agreed to join the rail campaigning group Railfuture at £25 a year, to press for better services on the Largs line. Proposed by CCllr Woodburn, seconded by CCllr Low Thomson.

North Ayrshire Council responded to a Freedom of Information request about the number of its employees resident in England, stating there are three. No further information was given, and further detail was being sought.

The Love Largs litter sign at Vikingar, reported broken in April, was repaired.

Scaffolding at the site was examined and made safe in February, following concern about the condition of the site, and rubbish at the rear was being cleared by April.

CCllr Macintosh took over as the Community Council's representative on Hunterston matters, nominated by CCllr Woodburn and seconded by the Chair. This resolved the gap in representation recorded in December 2024.

North Ayrshire Council approved the registration of the Largs Local Place Plan. The plan was produced by members of the Community Council and adopted by it in December 2024 after consultation, on a motion proposed by CCllr Adair and seconded by CCllr Low Thomson.

A tea dance was held on 20 February at the Masonic Hall as a joint fundraiser with Dementia Friendly Largs, Largs Food Hub and the Access to Food group.