Events, Entertainment & What’s on

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Heart of Newhaven December update

Heart of Newhaven is now a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. You can apply to be a member if you live in the area shown below, and send the following, using Heart of Newhaven’s form on their December update, to admin@heartofnewhaven.co.uk. (NB, not to LHNCC!)

NB there is other interesting reading in the December update!

  • Name(s)
  • Address
  • Email
  • Other contact details, telephone etc
  • Are you involved in any local Newhaven groups? e.g. choir, playgroups, history?
    (Heart of Newhaven will not disclose involvement to anyone else).
  • Sign
  • Date

Heart of Newhaven say

Thank you for providing details and signing up as a member. We use the data given to keep you informed about the ongoing project for as long as you remain signed up. Your data will not be given to third parties.If yo wish to not long hear about this project, please unsubscribe by contact us on admin@heartofnewhaven.co.uk

 

 

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LHNCC October minutes

Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council meeting, held at the Leith Community Education Centre on Tuesday 22 October 2019 at 7pm

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

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General Election hustings for Edinburgh North & Leith

Thursday, 28 November 2019 – 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church, Bellevue Crescent

Organised by The Spurtle, this is a unique opportunity to check out the candidates for our constituency and ask them questions important to you.

  • Iain McGill CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST PARTY
  • Gordon Munro LABOUR AND CO-OPERATIVE PARTY
  • Bruce Wilson LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
  • Heather Astbury RENEW
  • Steve Burgess SCOTTISH GREEN PARTY
  • Deidre Brock SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY
  • Robert Speirs THE BREXIT PARTY

 

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Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop SHOWDOWN AT SUNDOWN

(adapted from a communication from Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop)

This event is free, and there is no need to book. Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is at 21 Hawthornvale, Edinburgh, EH6 4JT.

Join us on the 30 November 3.00 to 5.30pm to celebrate the year’s end. Following on from the success of last year, on the 30th of November we will be running Showdown at Sundown, the 2nd ESW annual winter event.

There will be a chance to see the work of our artists as they open the doors of their studios, performances, a screening of Juliana Capes’ film Sunset Reports, artist-made games, a workshop and a smoke firing in the courtyard and the opening of the new exhibition, Display Copy, in the Hawthornvale Space. There will be winter themed refreshments provided by MILK and the event will be finished off with drinks and music from Karate Priest.

In Showdown at Sundown, we are extending a warm welcome to everyone to learn more about what happens at ESW and get to know each other. If you are a regular participant, have never visited, are a curious neighbour, Studio Holder, Member, Artist-in-Residence or along term friend of ESW — let’s get together. Continue reading →

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LHNCC agenda: November 2019

LHNCC Meeting, Shore Room, Leith Community Education Centre, Newkirkgate
Tuesday 26 November 2019 at 7pm

  1. Introductions, apologies
  2. Minutes of previous meeting
  3. Matters arising
    1. Neil Tulloch – co-opted member nomination
  4. Police report
  5. Reports: Chair, Secretary and Treasurer
  6. Councillors’/MSPs’/MP’s Reports
  7. Planning Update (see also LHNCC planning page)
    1. 16/01771/FUL (Appeal ref: 16/00126/REF & 16/00127/REF) Aldi Store, Commercial Street. Update
    2. 19/04966/PAN: 1 – 5 Baltic Street And 7-27 Constitution Street. Public Consultation: Thursday 29 November, Custom House, 3.00pm — 7.00pm. Feedback and planned action from Planning Team to be circulated in Planning Update in early December as no meeting that month.
  8. CCTT (Community Councils Together on Trams) – update in Autumn Newsletter
  9. Events feedback
    1. Leith Conference 26 & 27 October 11-4pm, Norton Park, Norton Park Conference Centre, Leith, Edinburgh EH7 — Full report in Autumn newsletter. Feedback email from Leith Creative available at http://www.leithcreative.org/leith-conference-2
    2. SOSLeith Public Meeting,Wednesday, 30 October, 6.30pm–9.00pm. Update presentation
  10. Future events (see also LHNCC ‘other work’ page)
    1. Public Meeting: ‘Bothered about buses?’ Drylaw Parish Church, Wednesday 27 November, 7.00pm-8.00pm. lan Bieniowski
      Lothian Buses Performance Manager. May have relevance for Transport to WGH
    2. SEStran, Bus Quarterly Meeting, Thursday 28 November, 10.00am-1.00pm, Victoria Quay
    3. EBUG meeting with Lothian Buses, 19 December 2019, venue and time to be tbc
  11. CEC and Scottish Government Information and consultations (see also LHNCC events and consultations page)
    1. CEC: Bus lane operation hours — Workshop, City Chamber, Thursday 21 November 2019
    2. CEC: 2020/21 Budget Consultation Closes 30 Nov 2019
    3. CEC: City Plan 2030: Choices for City Plan consultation runs 9 December 2019 to 28 February 2020. Public promotion: Saturday 18 January 2020 Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre, 11am to 3pm
  12. CEC Edinburgh Partnership
    1. CEC training session for new Community Councillors – feedback
    2. EACC: AGM, Thursday 21 November 2019, City Chambers
    3. Neighbourhood Networks meeting: Wednesday 27 November 2019, McDonald Road Library
  13. AOCB
  14. Date of next meeting:
    Tuesday 27 January 2020, 7.00pm – 9.00pm
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A survey on the future use of Custom House in Leith

The Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) is carrying out a survey of people and organisations in Leith to help define a long term plan for the development of Custom House.  The survey is designed to build on consultations carried out since Custom House was bought by the City of Edinburgh Council and leased to SHBT in order to save and regenerate this important historic building.

It is important for SHBT to understand the communities’ views on the development of Custom House. The consultations are being carried out in line with SHBT’s remit from the Council to ensure that the building is used sustainably for the benefit of the community of Leith – this reflects the purchase of the building using the Common Good Fund.

A fairly consistent picture has emerged through consultations of the kind of uses that might be developed for Custom House.  This seems to be a multi-purpose building, largely accessible to the community and part of which would celebrate and display aspects of Leith’s rich and fascinating heritage. It could include and be partly financed by rentable spaces for events, artist studios, cafes and compatible small local businesses. It could also be of sufficient interest to be a draw for visitors to Leith.

We now need as many people as possible to give us feedback on the potential uses by completing the survey. The results will be used to define the future of Custom House and guide the final proposals for the building.

Please help SHBT by completing this questionnaire as soon as possible – by Friday 6th December at the latest. Please click on the link below or copy and paste it into your browser.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LeithCustomHouseSurvey

If you have any queries about the survey or Custom House please contact SHBT by email on admin@shbt.org.

 

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Parks consultations: please have your say – thrice!

(adapted from a rather confusing email from Edinburgh Council) 

Survey of events in parks

This year’s survey about events held in parks across the city in 2018-19 has been published today: https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/copy-of-copy-of-parks-events-review-2018-19.

This surveyfocuses on views and comments on a range of events which took place between October 2018 to September 2019. Events include the Beltane and Samhuinn Fire Festivals on Calton Hill, the Summer Sessions and the Virgin Festival Fireworks in West Princes Street Gardens, the Circus and Colour Bomb Carnival in Sighthill Park and many more.

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