Councillor Kirsten Robb Annual Report June 2026

Top 6 highlights:

Successfully got more resources and attention for path maintenance, multi-use games areas, nature, energy saving, renewables and housing estate improvements in the council budget for the next three years.
Secured more action / funding for housing investment, the climate emergency and waste / litter via motions and amendments, including instigating cost avoidance of over £1 million via energy saving initiatives.
Worked with the community to secure external funding to improve road safety and boost active travel around Brancumhall.
Investment and improvements to Calderglen, Lammermoor and Benbecula Parks informed by local community wishes.
Helping approx. 220 people with individual cases and visiting and helping many local community organisations.
£1m avoided costs in South Lanarkshire Council following a 2022 energy efficiency motion

Working hard for you

Another year (year 4 now!) of working with you to improve lives and our place, the place I also call home. I still love this job and having the chance to help you in your personal lives or help you get answers and get the improvements you want for Calderwood, St Leonards and Nerston areas.

This annual report is organised around the issues local people told me that are important to you: Making our Streets Safer and Cleaner, Improving Local Lives and Facilities, Delivering for Our Community. I am also Deputy Convenor of the Climate and Sustainability Committee and sit on the following other committees to make a difference across all of South Lanarkshire: Full council (all councillors), Executive (scrutinises budgets and major plans / policies), Community and Enterprise (waste, roads, grounds, planning), Housing, Employee and Equalities, Performance and Review, Community Wealth Building and the local area committees.

I’m still dealing with 3-5 individual new case issues per week which makes hundreds every year. They usually get sorted pretty quickly or I’m working to sort them – I don’t give up and try and find alternative solutions working together with the community!

To stay connected to what’s important for you, I attend Parent Councils, local community council and a whole lot of other community groups and charities. I keep people in touch with my activities on an almost daily basis via my social accounts (see above), along with a monthly summary, as well as two newsletters to every household in the ward every year. Thank you to all the volunteers who help prepare and get these newsletters out (get in touch if you can help too please!).

Making our paths and streets safer and cleaner

Path improvements completed at Kirkoswald.
Secured more funding for path maintenance over the next three years
Secured external funding for a safer route to school and leisure facilities at St Leonards Primary / Brancumhall Park, now complete. Working on phase 2 to improve more paths at Brancumhall Park.
Improvements to Lammermoor Park now getting implemented off the back of last year’s community survey.
Fed back community input into Benbecula Park, some of which is getting actioned, including a new accessible path to some of the equipment.
Calderglen Country Park: Pushed for the installation of safer pedestrian access in and around the park with progress seen on large stones to block parking on the main avenue (complete), a new footpath and cycle way up the main avenue (nearly complete), speed and one way signage (complete) and a pedestrian bridge across from Colonsay (funding allocated). Made a successful case to secure more investment in path repairs, which are being carried out on an ongoing basis. This includes securing a committee report on sustaining a resilient path infrastructure into the future.
I secured a budget commitment from all parties that working for people and nature are clear objectives for new Grounds investments
Supported community and school clean ups in and around Lammermoor park, Long Calderwood Primary, Phoenix Court and Glen Esk park.
Flooding at Bosworth Road sorted and work to address flooding at Glen Doll and Glen Lyon underpasses to be fixed this summer.

Improving Local Lives and Facilities

Expanded improvements to Brancumhall’s free pitch and putt will now be carried out over autumn / winter.
Secured budget investment to speed up the repair of school Multi-use games areas
Continued to support, visit and promote a wide range of local organisations from parent councils to community councils to small, local charities doing great grass roots work.
Helped to set up Calderglen Community Connections charity and serve as a trustee, to help all those in the high school catchment thrive and hopefully give out micro grants.
Developed and passed a motion for the council to cost up and develop proposals to: Ensure all council homes are free of rising & penetrating damp; Bring all council homes up to energy efficiency standards; Address the outstanding repairs and adaptations backlogs; Increase uptake of improvements in mixed housing blocks and investigate private rent controls and retrofit needs.

Delivering for Our Community

I will continue to focus on helping people, getting more change on the ground and improving policies to create a healthier, happier, more sustainable South Lanarkshire.
In this year’s budget I also secured more investment in estate management and energy saving / renewables.
Joining the Community & Enterprise Committee last year I worked up an amendment to invest more in waste awareness and reuse and address littering and fly tipping. With further additions by other parties, a similar amendment passed and investments are being made.
As a result of work done off the back of my energy saving motion back in 2022, the council have now avoided costs of over £1 million, also saving 1,404 tonnes of carbon, all via low or no cost options.
Secured more action to tackle the climate emergency