Request to join Scottish Health Research Register and Biobank

Leith Harbour & Newhaven CC has received the following from an arm of the Scottish NHS. Although it is not specific to the LHNCC area, it may be of interest to LHNCC residents, so LHNCC is forwarding it for your information.


Health research is important so that we can prevent people from getting unwell and try to improve treatments if they do become ill. We need to involve more people in research, and we can do this with your support! We need you, your families, your colleagues and your visitors to sign up the SHARE Register.

SHARE – The Scottish Health Research Register and Biobank – is a Register of people who are happy to be sent information about health projects. 

We need healthy people and people with health conditions to join SHARE. Health research is necessary so new treatments can be discovered for conditions and disease such as cancer, diabetes, dementia, stroke and asthma. 

When you join, we may occasionally send you information about research projects that might be of interest to you. This might involve taking part in online surveys, sharing your views on your healthcare or taking part in a study researching a new medication for an illness you may have. You can decide if you would like to take part when you find out more about the study.

Would you be willing to display posters in your buildings and offices, to help promote SHARE to your staff and members of the public? If you can help, please get in touch at enquiries@registerforshare.org.

People can register in a number of ways:


Thank you very much for considering this request.

With thanks and kind regards,

Sarah Ritchie
SHARE Deputy Program Manager
The Scottish Health Research Register & Biobank
Level 6-242, Corridor R
Ninewells Hospital & University of Dundee Medical School DD1 9SY
enquiries@registerforshare.org
The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096

LHNCC June 2024 minutes

Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council ordinary meeting, held at Heart of Newhaven, on Tuesday 25 June 2024 at 6:30pm

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

NB LHNCC held its annual general meeting before this ordinary meeting. Because the AGM minutes will not be formally approved until the 2025 AGM, they are provided in PDF format elsewhere. Continue reading

LHNCC agenda: 27 August 2024

Date and time: 18:30 to 20:30, Tuesday 27 August 2024

Please note that this meeting with be online only, via Teams. We have had a series of in-person meetings for some time now and to be fair to our members and local residents who may not have been able to attend our meetings we have on this occasion chosen to have this type of meeting.

Click here to join the meeting.

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LHNCC May 2024 minutes

Please note these are draft minutes – the minutes secretary has not yet received confirmation of their acceptance.

Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council ordinary meeting, held at Custom House, on Tuesday 28 May 2024 at 6:30pm Continue reading

LHNCC agendas (ordinary and annual general meetings): 25 June 2024

Date and time: 18:30 to 20:30, Tuesday 25 June 2024
Venue: in-person only at Heart of Newhaven Community Hub Continue reading

LHNCC April 2024 minutes

Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council ordinary meeting, held at Custom House, on Tuesday 23 April 2024 at 6:30pm

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

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LHNCC **final** agenda: 28 May 2024

  1. Introductions, apologies for absence
  2. Declarations of interest
  3. Minutes of 23 April meeting
  4. Matters arising
  5. Residents’s issues advised prior to the meeting
    • Traffic on Henderson Street
  6. Police report, including responses to items raised
  7. Standing items and updates
    • Planning and licensing
      • Harbour 31
      • Albert Dock railings
      • Seafield update
      • Council-led training session (30 May, 2pm)
    • Transport
      • Trams
      • Buses
    • Environment and green space
      • Water of Leith Basins Stakeholder Group
      • Discovery Gardens
      • Reopening of Coalie Park on 22 May
    • Heritage
      • Murals on walls of South Leith Parish Church
    • Community
      • Update on Leith Community Centre
      • Leith Gala Day (Saturday 8 June)
  8. Edinburgh’s proposed local development plan – City Plan 20230 – report of examination
  9. Councillors’, MSP’s and MP’s reports and updates
  10. Key diary dates ahead of next meeting
  11. AOCB
  12. Date of next meeting: Tuesday 25 June 2024 AGM (venue TBC)

Report bad smells and noise from Seafield

Courtesy of Leith Links CC, there is a tool to report bad smells and noise from the Seafield works: http://www.leithlinkscc.org.uk/seafieldnuisancereportform/

The form will automatically be forwarded to Ben Macpherson MSP; councillors Katrina Faccenda, Adam Nols-McVey and Chas Booth; Leith Links CC; Scottish Water, Veolia, waterindustry@gov.scot, and Mairi McAllan MSP (Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy).

We will add a link to the form to this website’s sidebar, so it will remain accessible here.

LHNCC March 2024 minutes

Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council ordinary meeting, held at Heart of Newhaven, on Tuesday 26 March 2024 at 6:30pm

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

The meeting was preceded by a presentation by Cllr Cammy Day, Leader of Edinburgh Council, on the ‘Regeneration of North Edinburgh’.

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Deputation on ‘Edinburgh Tram York Place to Newhaven Project Delivery’ by Community Councils Together on Trams

Edinburgh Council’s Transport and Environment Committee will consider this report on the Trams to Newhaven project on Thursday 25 April.

To repeat a mantra, NTBCC and the other community councils in Community Councils Together on Trams believe that the project is not yet finished. The report itself notes that 69 ‘defects’ (i.e. items that are not to plan or specification) of 872 remain open.

Simply put, the report does not properly address the many concerns that NTBCC and CCTT have raised regarding the completion of the outstanding public realm work associated with the Trams Project nor provide any meaningful information about the resolution of the identified defects.

Hence CCTT is submitting the following written deputation, while New Town & Broughton Community Council will submit a verbal deputation, to TEC on Thursday.

Here is the PDF of CCTT’s deputation. (The text and images are also below the ‘read-more’ cut.)

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