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Next LHNCC meeting

The next LHNCC meeting will be on Tuesday 27 April 2021, at 7pm, via Zoom.

This will be a public meeting.
- Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leith-harbour-newhaven-community-council-april-2021-meeting-tickets-149313788561
- LHNCC welcomes public input in advance via the website contact-form at https://lhncc.org.uk/contact-us, or by email to secretary@lhncc.org.uk.
- Public input is equally welcome at any time after the meeting.
An agenda will be circulated in due course, both by email and via a post on this website.

LHNCC is aware that online meetings exclude those who cannot access them, whatever the reason. However, this is the best it can offer under the current circumstances.

Further meeting dates, coronavirus permitting, are 7pm to 9pm on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

LHNCC quarterly newsletter: Summer 2020

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May 15, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting, 25 March 2021

Minutes of the Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting
(Construction Phase) via Google Meet on Thursday 25 March 2021 at 5:30pm Continue reading →

May 13, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

LHNCC agenda and Eventbrite link: May 2021

Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/153535178853

Introductions, apologies
Declaration of interests
Minutes of April 2021 meeting
Matters arising
Police Report tbc
Councillor/MSP/MP reports
Chair, Secretary and Treasurer reports
Standing reports:
1. Planning
  1. Rennie’s Isle Development
  2. Albert Dock update
  3. Hemmingway’s (Commercial St)
  4. Sandpiper Drive, Western Harbour (Opposite ASDA to the West)
  5. Seafield Project update
  6. Sub-planning Group – letter to David Givan, CEC Chief Planning Officer.
2. Licensing
3. Transport
  1. Trams/Community Councils Together on Trams
  2. Edinburgh Bus User’s Group
4. Environment
5. Heritage
  1. Heart of Newhaven Community Project – AGM
6. Community
  1. Meeting with Paul Lawrence (Tram/CPZ/Leith Connections/Spaces for People/Low Traffic Neighbourhood
  2. North East Community Planning Partnership
Resident issues
1. Abandoned vehicles – update
AOCB
Date of next meeting (AGM + ordinary meeting) – Tuesday 22 June 2021

Links for further information on Agenda item (8) Standing Reports

April 30, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

LHNCC April 2021 minutes

MInutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council ordinary meeting, held via Zoom, on Tuesday 23 March 2021at 7:00pm

Actions and decisions are red italic. Nem con means that no-one spoke or voted against an item. Continue reading →

April 17, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

LHNCC agenda and Eventbrite link: April 2021

Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leith-harbour-newhaven-community-council-march-2021-meeting-tickets-144885525507

Introductions, apologies
Declaration of interests
Minutes of February 2021 meeting
Matters arising
Police Report tbc
Councillor/MSP/MP reports
Chair, Secretary and Treasurer reports
Standing reports:
1. Planning
  1. Rennie’s Isle Development (presentation and discussion on the planning application from Robert Evans, Director, Ryden Planning for VRS Ltd c/o Union Property Services, and team members
  2. Albert Dock update (JM)
  3. Salamander St/Bath Rd (JM)
  4. Seafield Project update (NT)
2. Licensing
3. Transport
  1. Trams/Community Councils Together on Trams (JM)
  2. Edinburgh Bus User’s Group (JM)
4. Environment
  1. Coalie Park Conversations consultation (DG/ED)
  2. PAS & Zero Waste Scotland, Circular Economy and Planning System event (JM)
5. Heritage
  1. Heart of Newhaven Community Project (JM)
6. Community
  1. Edinburgh Civic Forum – Update (JM)
  2. North East Community Planning Partnership (DT)
  3. Edinburgh Partnerships Reforms – EACC (JM)
  4. Community Council Planning Training Workshop (JM)
Resident issues
1. Parking restrictions in Tower Street
2. Overflowing bins The Shore and Commercial Wharf
3. Abandoned vehicles
Leith Connections consultation and next steps (JM)
AOCB
Date of next meeting – Tuesday 27 April 2021

Links for further information on Agenda item (8) Standing Reports

April 10, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

Trams TROs consultation: starts 13 April

Please note this is from the Trams to Newhaven team. LHNCC will respond in due course – watch this space.

From Tuesday 13 April the project will commence the Traffic Regulation Order public consultation process (TRO). A TRO details the nature and extent of how our roads are used and managed such as road closures, restrictions on turning movements and the position of parking and loading spaces.

The purpose of the TRO process is to invite comment and objections on the parking and loading arrangements being proposed and any changes to moving traffic requirements and entry/exit from streets. Only measures presented within the traffic order may be objected to.

You will be able to view and comment on the TRO from Tuesday 13 April for a period of 28 days.

April 5, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

Scottish Parliament elections 2021 – Edinburgh Northern and Leith hustings (12 April 2021)

While community councils must be politically neutral in all their activities, the following event is open to all and does not promote any individual political stance over others.

Leith Links CC is holding a hustings for the Scottish parliamentary constituency of Edinburgh Northern and Leith, LHNCC’s constituency. This is on Monday 12 April 2021 from 7pm, on Zoom.

The candidates taking part in the hustings are

Rebecca Bell (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
Katrina Faccenda (Scottish Labour)
Callum Laidlaw (Scottish Conservatives)
Ben Macpherson (Scottish National Party)
Jon Pullman (Freedom Alliance)
Lorna Slater (Scottish Greens)

Read more about this event on Leith Links CC’s website: http://www.leithlinkscc.org.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-2021-edinburgh-northern-and-leith-hustings.

Register to take part via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-northern-and-leith-hustings-scottish-parliament-elections-2021-tickets-148498618365

March 30, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting, 25 February 2021

Minutes of the Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting
(Construction Phase) via Google Meet on Thursday 25 February 2021 at 5:30pm Continue reading →

March 28, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

LHNCC February 2021 minutes

MInutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council ordinary meeting, held via Zoom, on Tuesday 23 February 2021at 7:00pm

Continue reading →

March 20, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

Survey on Coallie Park

Water of Leith Conservation Trust says:

We would appreciate your help to complete and promote this survey about Coallie Park, in Leith: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/J89MVVL

Click the graphic to see a summary of the Landscape proposals for the area for your consideration and interest. This forms the basis for the ‘Coalie Conversations’ which the Water of Leith Conservation Trust would like to initiate. On social media you can use #coalieconversations @WOLCT @greenspacetrust

We have also made a web page: http://www.waterofleith.org.uk/coaliepark.

March 15, 2021 by Bruce Ryan

Leith Connection Consultation – LHNCC’s response

The following is the text of a response submitted by LHNCC on 5 March

Leith Connections Project
Survey Response
5 March 2021

Mike Wilkinson
Community Engagement
Leith Connections

Dear Mike

Ref: Leith Connection Consultation Response

I am submitting above following consultation and feedback from committee members and members of the public on behalf of Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council.

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