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LHNCC Agenda – 25 August 2026

  1. Introductions, apologies
  2. Declaration of interests
  3. Minutes of 23 June meeting
  4. Matters arising (local resident/business/organisation issues)
  5. Police update
  6. Leith Local Place Plan Update (Jo/Morgane)
  7. Standing items and updates:

    a) Planning and licensing
    – Planning Report (Ian)
    – Rennie’s Isle – proposed hotel development
    – Western Harbour PAN
    – Barge 1502 The Shore
    – Short-term lets

    b) Transport
    – Leith Connections (Geo) – Cycleway along Commerical St
    – Edinburgh Bus Users Group (EBUG)
    – Trams (and CCTT – Community Councils Together on Trams)

    c) Environment
    – Water of Leith Basins (Don, all)
    – Salamander Street AQAP
    – Forth Big Clean up 2026 – 29 August
    – Thriving Green Spaces

    d) Heritage

    e) Community
    – Leith Chooses (Jason)
  8. Councillor (Chas Booth, Katrina Faccenda, Adam McVey) & MSP (Ben Macpherson) updates
  9. Forth ports meetings
  10. Treasurer update
  11. AOB
  12. Date of next meeting – Tuesday 22 September 2026. (Custom House)
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LHNCC agenda: May 2023

  Tuesday 23 May 2023, 18:30pm – 20:30pm via Microsoft Teams 

  1. Introductions, apologies 
  2. Declaration of interests
  3. Minutes April 2023 meeting
  4. Matters arising 
  5. Police Report tbc 
  6. Councillor/MSP/MP reports
  7. Chair, Secretary and Treasurer reports
  8. Standing reports
    1. Planning
      1. Dockside, Ocean Drive
    2.  Licensing
    3. Transport
      1. Community Councils Together on Trams (CCTT)
      2. Edinburgh Bus User’s Group
      3. Leith Connections
      4. Lothian Buses – Network changes – Sunday 28 May 2023
    4. Environment
      1. FOWLB (DG)
      2. SOSLeith – Update on Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs)
      3. Thriving Green Spaces, Parks (6) in Leith, Workshop
    5. Heritage
      1. Victoria Bridge and Rennie’s Isle Bridge
    6. Community
  9. Resident issues
  10. Edinburgh Association of Community Councils (EACC)
  11. AOCB
  12. Date of next meeting – AGM & Ordinary 27 June 2023

Forthcoming events

Quintinshill Memorial Service – 10.30am Saturday 20 May2023. Rosebank Cemetery, Pilrig Street

Newhaven Gala Day – Saturday 27 May2023, Queen arrives Newhaven Harbour 11.00am and parade to Heart of Newhaven for Crowning

Leith Festival Gala Day – Saturday 10 June 2023, Leith Links 

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Scottish Land Commission virtual public meeting: 17 May, 7pm

The Scottish Land Commission writes:

Join the Scottish Land Commission for the next in our series of virtual public meetings, covering Edinburgh on Wednesday 17 May at 7:00 pm.

There will be a short presentation on our work, followed by a Q&A session with our Chair, Andrew Thin, and Land Commissioner David Adams. Find out more about land reform, share your views on it in your area, and learn how it can contribute to a successful Scotland. We will be discussing:

  • Natural capital and land
  • Modernising land ownership
  • Transforming vacant and derelict land
  • Land for housing
  • Our Good Practice programme
  • Putting into practice land rights and responsibilities
  • Work of the Tenant Farming Commissioner

Attached is a poster with further details. Please circulate this to anyone that may be interested.

To book your place please register at this link.

If you would like more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Many thanks and best wishes

Sara Smith

Comms & Events Assistant
Scottish Land Commission | An Lòchran | 10 Inverness Campus | Inverness | IV2 5NA
‘ 01463 423 310/ 07827 937 206| : sara.smith@landcommission.gov.scot | www.landcommission.gov.scot  

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Charity concert, South Leith Parish Church

from the Rotary Club of Leith

The Rotary Club of Leith is holding a charity concert on Thursday evening 17 November at 7pm in South Leith Parish Church near the foot of Leith Walk.  

We are delighted that the concert will showcase the musical talents of the high school pupils for the first time from both Leith and Trinity Academies and that it will be in aid of Kids Operating Room (KidsOR).  The musicians have a tight schedule of exams and school performances and we appreciate their and their teachers’ commitment to the concert.

The small Scottish charity, KidsOR, gives access to attractive paediatric surgeries for life saving operations on children in Africa and South America and ensures there are trained staff to run them. During the concert there will be a short presentation about KidsOR.

Instead of tickets we welcome donations on entry with refreshments being available during the interval.

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Census – March 2022: help get support to groups you support!

reproduced from an email from the Scottish Government

Scotland’s next census will be held in March 2022. This census will be a digital first census and we want to encourage as many households in Scotland as possible to complete it online.  We would like to invite you to one or more of the online events listed below, to give you information on how the census will be delivered and how you can help get messages and support to those groups you already support in other ways, to ensure they can take part in the census and be counted.

Each online event will last no longer than 30 minutes and we invite you to register for the relevant event by clicking on the link below.

Wednesday, 27 October 202114:00 – 14:30Parents of young childrenClick here to register for event
Wednesday, 3 November 202111:00 – 11:30Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME)Click here to register for event
Wednesday, 10 November 202114:00 – 14:30VeteransClick here to register for event
Wednesday, 17 November 202111:00 – 11:30Older peopleClick here to register for event
Wednesday, 24 November 202111:00 – 11:30Digitally excluded/High deprivationClick here to register for event
Wednesday, 1 December 202111:00 – 11:30Gaelic SpeakersClick here to register for event
Wednesday, 8 December 202111:00 – 11:30People with disabilitiesClick here to register for event
Wednesday, 15 December 202111:00 – 11:30Rural areas and islandsClick here to register for event
Wednesday, 12 January 202211:00 – 11:30LGBTIClick here to register for event
Wednesday, 19 January 202211:00 – 11:30Young people not living at homeClick here to register for event

Please forward this invitation onto organisations you feel would benefit from attending these events. Please also include information in newsletters/ e-bulletins and websites if applicable. 

If you require any additional information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with National Records of Scotland directly –Scotlandscensus@nrscotland.gov.uk.

Best wishes,

Simon Ashpool I Senior Policy Officer Community Learning and Development I Directorate for Advance Learning and Science I 5 Atlantic Quay I 150 Broomielaw I G2 8LU

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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods Proposals for Communities – consultation extended

The consultation on the low-traffic neighbourhood proposals has been extended to 11 July.

This consultation is available online at https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/low-traffic-neighbourhoods.

That link also gives access to ‘all project information including proposed concept designs, an online survey and an engagement report for the last stage’, according to Anna McRobbie of AECOM.

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Ground investigation works at Western Harbour

Forth Ports advises

There will be some minor ground investigation works at Western Harbour in the park commencing this week. The works should not cause any disruption or adverse noise and they will be undertaken within the fence line of the park and during normal working hours of 8am to 5pm.

A small number of workers plan to be on site on 25th and 26th May 2021 and then again for a couple of days during week commencing 31 May 2021.  Please pass this information on to any of the factors at Western Harbour.

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Heart of Newhaven – latest update

Where have the past two years gone?  On 4th October 2018 in Victory Primary School there were lots of ideas on what the community could do here once the children moved to their new school, then still in the planning stages.

We were warned that our dreams would take time and effort and there were delays. The new school building, first scheduled to be opened last August, will be completed one day despite, like so much else, being affected by Covid 19. We are working steadily on ways to promote a better normal as soon as we can. More on that next time.

Meanwhile the Heart of Newhaven Community with our iconic logo is steadily growing with people like you keen to support our programme of ideas.

This update comes hard on the heels of one you may have just received about Membership of our SCIO – Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.   It’s a bit technical, so I’ll try to explain.

We registered the Heart of Newhaven Community SCIO SC049919, as the first step to qualify for the Community Asset Transfer of Victoria Primary School. Our SCIO constitution allows different categories of membership and the letter sent recently showed which one we think fits you as you register, as I hope you will.

Depending on which category you fall into, membership will give you a vote at meetings and so enable you to have your say in deciding what happens.

The ‘Asset’ (the whole of the current school site) to be ‘tansferred’ will belong to the Charity on behalf of the whole community: so the name Heart of Newhaven Community is apt.
But it’s not just a place. The beating pulse of the whole community already exists in people – YOU! –  living human beings. A really good way to help create what the name shows is to register on the form you’ve hopefully been sent.

If you have any questions about membership, haven’t had a letter, or think you received the wrong one, then you can find out more HERE on the website. If you’re still in doubt, please feel free to contact me directly at chair@heartofnewhaven.co.uk and I’ll try to help. 

I hope the next one will be more exciting but we are definitely not just dreaming the time away and the next two years should be very impressive.

Rodney Matthews
Chair and Vision Facilitator
The Heart of Newhaven Community

Copyright © 2020 Heart of Newhaven Community, All rights reserved.

Our mailing address is:

Heart of Newhaven Community
c/o Victoria Primary School
Newhaven Main Street
Edinburgh
EH6 4HY

(adapted from an email from admin@heartofnewhaven.co.uk)