Progress on Cupar Digital Improvement District

A ballot on the proposal to create a Digital Improvement District (DID) for the Cupar area could take place in the new year if agreed by councillors at next week’s North East Fife Area Committee.

The proposal, submitted by CuparNow, will be considered by councillors who will decide whether a renewal ballot can be carried out.

Councillors previously considered a report on the proposals from CuparNow in October and agreed to look at this again in December to allow time for further discussion around the issues which had been raised.

Morag Millar, Place Programmes and Polices Service Manager, said: "We are committed to ensuring our town centers are thriving places and to the value that Business Improvement Districts, and in the case of Cupar the Digital Improvement District, could bring in helping deliver this outcome.

“In considering proposals for the renewal of CuparNow’s mandate, Fife Council has a legislative role and a duty to ensure transparency, fairness and accountability to the levy payers.

“We have now completed that work and believe the proposal from CuparNow is close enough to compliance to allow the Renewal Ballot to proceed and allow local businesses as levy payers the right to decide whether they wish to renew the mandate for the Digital Improvement District (DID) for Cupar”