Author: Bruce Ryan

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More detail on carriageway resurfacing works – Summer 2019/20

Following on from this post, Edinburgh Council has just sent the following detail about the road resurfacing planned for this summer.

Location Planned Start Date Estimated Duration Work Detail
Broughton Street 28-May + 22 Aug 4 weeks + 2 weeks Pedestrian crossing upgrade + carriageway resurfacing
Albany Street 03-Jun 1 week Carriageway resurfacing
Hopetoun Street 07-Jun 2 days Carriageway resurfacing
Academy Street 11-Jun 1 week Overlay setts
Dalmeny Street 17-Jun 10 days Carriageway resurfacing, overlay setts and minor footway works
East Hermitage Place 26-Jun 3 days Carriageway resurfacing
Portland Place 28-Jun 1 week Carriageway resurfacing
McDonald Road 01-Jul 10 days Footway widening and carriageway patching
Easter Road/Duke Street 01-Jul 8 weeks Junction redesign
East London Street 02-Jul 7 weeks Pedestrian crossing upgrade and carriageway resurfacing
Duncan Place 10-Jul 2 weeks Carriageway resurfacing and minor footway works
Great Junction Street 10-Jul 1 week Carriageway resurfacing
Gordon Street 02-Aug 1 week Carriageway resurfacing
Bonnington Road 08-Aug 3 weeks Carriageway resurfacing
Ocean Drive 08-Aug 3 days Carriageway resurfacing
North Leith Sands 13-Aug 1 week Carriageway resurfacing and minor footway works
Newhaven Road 26-Aug 2 weeks Carriageway resurfacing
Annandale Street 29-Aug 7 weeks New pedestrian crossings and carriageway resurfacing
Broughton Road 05-Sep 2 weeks Carriageway resurfacing
Easter Road 11-Sep 3 weeks Carriageway resurfacing and minor footway works
Links Place 23-Sep 4 weeks Carriageway resurfacing, new traffic island and footway works
Pilrig Street 29-Sep 4 weeks Carriageway resurfacing, new traffic island and footway works
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Community Assembly to discuss what you care about in Leith

(adapted from a communication from Save Leith Walk)

Save Leith Walk would like to invite you to a Community Assembly to discuss how you would like Leith run. This event will be a great opportunity to meet fellow Leithers and share what you value in your community and what you would like to improve. Together we can build momentum to take action in shaping our neighbourhood and take ownership.

Please book your place via Eventbrite.

The Electoral Reform Society will facilitate the event and help with bringing aspirations together. The information gathered on the day will be used to create an Action Plan for the local community, enabling the people of Leith to take a pro-active role in the development of their community. There will be plenty of time for discussion, networking and sharing of ideas.

They will also be joined by speakers from Living Rent and Planning Democracy.

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LHNCC agenda: May 2019

LHNCC Meeting, Shore Room, Leith Community Education Centre, Newkirkgate
Tuesday 28 May 2019 at 6.30pm

1. Introductions, apologies

2. Minutes of Previous Meeting

3. Matters arising

4. Police Report

5. Reports: Secretary and Treasurer

6. Councillors/MSP/MP Report/s

7. Planning update

(also available on LHNCC planning page)

7.a Cala: Waterfront Plaza (affordable block F) 16/03684/FUL

Affordable Block

7.b Save Leith Walk

      • Developer Drum have submitted Appeal to Scottish Govt. DPEA
      • Response plan for Leith CCs

8. CCTT (Community Councils Together on Trams)

Next meeting 29 May, Contractor to be in attendance

9. Local events & feedback

Updates available on LHNCC ‘other work’ page

9.a Heart of Newhaven (formerly Newhaven Project)

Introducing Newhaven Walks: stand at Volunteering Event at Leith Community Centre and at other events to raise profile

9.b EBUG Public meeting

Feedback

10. CEC and Scottish Government information and consultations

Detail available on LHNCC events page

10.a Edinburgh Partnership Review Outcomes

Starting to establish Neighbourhood Networks, Thursday 30 May, 6.00pm-8.00pm. Venue tbc.

10.b CEC Edinburgh Community Council Scheme Review Final Phase

· Closes 3 June 2019

10.c Scottish Government: Consultation Energy Efficient Scotland:

https://consult.gov.scot/better-homes-division/energy-efficient/

Closes 17 June 2019

10.d Scot. Govt. Short-term lets

https://consult.gov.scot/housing-services-policy-unit/short-term-lets

Closes 19 July 2019

11. AOCB

11.a Request from PLACE Edinburgh group regarding short term lets

11.b. Query from business owner regarding garages on Coatfield Lane

12. Date of next meeting:

Tuesday 25 June 2019

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Free guided Newhaven walks

(adapted from a communication from Heart of Newhaven)
Join a walk, mainly flat terrain but with some cobbles, through the area with experienced, professional tourist guide Mary Kemp Clarke.

Founded in the 15th century, the village has grown organically around its harbour and encompasses a wealth of fascinating historical and archaeological detail and social history.

Walks: June 6th & 28th and August 7th & 9th.

Time: 2.00pm – 3.30pm (approx.)

Start: Meet Mary at The Harbour at 2.00 p.m. (She is a fully trained and qualified Blue Badge Tourist Guide accredited by the Scottish Tourist Guides Association since 1999, and has the confidence, experience and energy to show visitors from diverse backgrounds around the whole of Scotland, not just Newhaven! She’s also fluent in Spanish).

To book in advance: email admin@heartofnewhaven.co.uk(with Newhaven Walk in the title line)

Learn about links with the Canadian Goldrush and the Spanish Armada; the early days of photography; shipbuilding and fishing, as you pass the old fish market and the lighthouse; the oldest working publicVictorian school in Edinburgh; the last of the tenements and fishermen’s cottages.

Find out how the The Heart of Newhavencommunity initiative is working hard to save the old Victorian Primary School building when its pupils move on to a brand new school by purchasing the old school building and giving it a new lease of life as a community hub containing a Newhaven and Victorian Education museum as well asversatile spaces for inter-generational community use.

Visit our website: heartofnewhaven.co.uk

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NOTES of Meeting Community Council Together on Trams (CCTT) & Tram Team (TT) 25 April 2019

1. Welcome, introductions, minutes

  • Present: Darren Wraight (DW), Jennifer Marlborough, Rob Levick, Angus Hardie, Charlotte Encombe, Andrew Mckenzie, Harald Tobermann (HT), Rob Leech (RL)
  • Agreed: to ask Bruce Ryan to do future minutes (costs covered by Anturas)

2. Update TT team

a. Progress on CEC work on multi-year environmental cost/benefits post-tram

  • Noted: this is being progressed by Hannah Ross (HR) who will advise

b. Confirmation of official ECI period (given the delayed mobilisation)

Noted: ECI is underway, but not all senior contractor staff are in Edinburgh. ECI will end 9 October 2019. Lane closures with heras and barrier will commence from 10 October 2019. To confirm the track slab design the contractor will carry out ground and site investigation along the route[note i]. This will be carried out via trail holes and bores. These works will be carried out under minor traffic management lasting on average 5 days per location.

  • Noted: DW as ‘in-house’ stakeholder rep, and contractors are co-locating to 200 Bonnington Rd (200BR) for the period (perhaps beyond); other members of TT: HR (ca 1 day at 200BR) and RL (as required at 200BR) based at their respective main offices. New TT communication person is being recruited. Client team includes CEC tram team, Anturas, Turner Townsend, Atkins.
  • Agreed: DW to provide diagram of all entities and key personnel involved and glossary of acronyms
  • Noted: detailed trader logistics survey in progress; more info at next meeting

3. Update CCTT

  • Noted: HT had meetings with Paul Lawrence, Hannah Ross and George Lowder to prepare the ground for CCTT/TT meetings during ECI period
  • Noted: the role of the Traffic Management Review Panel (TMRP): includes representation of some but not all relevant groups (e.g. pedestrians and bus passengers – as opposed to bus operator – don’t have a dedicated voice)[note ii]
  • Agree ‘shopping list’ (see below) priority, scope, input required, date decision required
  • Agreed: see bolditems in table below

4. Agree future meeting dates during ECI period

  • Agreed: monthly meetings at 200BR on last THU, apart May (date tbc) and July (holiday[note iii]): 29 (tbc) May, 27 June, 29 August, 26 September; meetings beyond September TBA
  • Agreed: due to pace of mobilisation, to meet contractors’ senior staff at June meeting
  • Agreed: to keep an eye on Constitution Street fixing points and pre-works

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Proposed Carriageway Resurfacing Works – Summer 2019/20

(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)

The carriageway on a number of streets in your Ward are due to be resurfaced during the Summer of 2019. The roads affected have been prioritised because of their current condition and because the upcoming tram works will prevent any planned resurfacing work from taking place in and around the proposed tram line during the construction period.

The resurfacing works are planned to start on 27 May and will be carried out during weekdays in separate phases in order to minimise disruption to the public. On some traffic sensitive routes, work may be carried out under nightshift to minimise the impact on traffic. Most roads affected will be fully or significantly resurfaced with a select few being only partially resurfaced or patched as required. There will also be some improvements to pedestrian facilities, traffic signal upgrades and renewal of some street furniture.

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Edinburgh Bus Users’ Group inaugural meeting, 2 May 2019

(This post is the minutes of the EBUG inaugural meeting on 2 May 2019, except names of EBUG members and attendees have been omitted because LHNCC does not have permission to share such personal details.

The minutes are followed by EBUG’s ‘Outline statement’.

EBUG can be contacted via edinburghbususersgroup@btinternet.com)

Edinburgh Bus Users’ Group, inaugural meeting, 2 May 2019
Friends Meeting House, Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh

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