Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council ordinary meeting, held via MS Teams, on Tuesday 22 November 2022 at 6:30pm Continue reading
LHNCC agenda: January 2023 (with Teams link)
Time: 18:30 to 20:30, Tuesday 24 January
This meeting will be hybrid: in person (at the Conference room in the Ocean Terminal Management Suite) and online via Teams.
To join online, use this link: click here to join the meeting
- Introductions, apologies
- Declaration of interests
- Minutes of November 2022 meeting
- Matters arising
- Police report
- Councillors’/MSPs’/MP’s reports
- Chair, Secretary and Treasurer reports
- Residents’ queries and issues
- Planning (including 30-minute presentation by Turley on proposed Water St development)
- Licensing
- Transport
- Environment
- Community
- AOB
Diary Dates
Leith Chooses: Voting opens 16 January 2023 at www.leithchooses.net
Leith Local History Society: Events – Venue: Leith Community Centre, Kirkgate. Time: 7.00pm
Scheduled LHNCC meetings (to June 2023)
- 28 February 2023
- 28 March 2023
- 25 April 2023
- 23 May 2023
- 27 June 2023 (AGM)
LHNCC agenda: January 2023
Time: 18:30 to 20:30, Tuesday 24 January
The arrangements for this month’s meeting are to be confirmed (by Monday 23 January) but it’s likely to be hybrid: in person at the Conference room in the Ocean Terminal Management Suite) and online via Teams. (We’ll post and circulate details as soon as they are confirmed.)
- Introductions, apologies
- Declaration of interests
- Minutes of November 2022 meeting
- Matters arising
- Police report
- Councillors’/MSPs’/MP’s reports
- Chair, Secretary and Treasurer reports
- Residents’ queries and issues
- Planning (including 30-minute presentation by Turley on proposed Water St development)
- Licensing
- Transport
- Environment
- Community
- AOB
Diary Dates
Leith Chooses: Voting opens 16 January 2023 at www.leithchooses.net
Leith Local History Society: Events – Venue: Leith Community Centre, Kirkgate. Time: 7.00pm
Scheduled LHNCC meetings (to June 2023)
- 28 February 2023
- 28 March 2023
- 25 April 2023
- 23 May 2023
- 27 June 2023 (AGM)
Water Street Aparthotel
LHNCC obtained the images of in the PDF below at a recent presentation. Unfortunately, LHNCC’s web weaver can’t find details of this presentation or any online consultation. However, the architects, O’DonnellBrown, are contactable via
84 St Andrews Drive, Glasgow, G41 4EQ
0141 4272325
Ocean Point 2: flyer and consultation website
This flyer was sent to LHNCC by Orbit Communications. Unfortunately, the first drop-in event (13 December) has now passed, but the website will remain open for comment until 13 January 2023.
Website: https://oceanpoint2.com
Christmas greetings from LHNCC!
LHNCC secretary shortlisted for ‘Community Champion’ award
LHNCC’s secretary, Jennifer Marlborough, was recently shortlisted for the Edinburgh Evening News Local Hero ‘Community Champion’ Award. As others wrote, ‘Jenny is well known for her tireless voluntary work, first and foremost on Leith Harbour & Newhaven Community Council, where she is both secretary and planning lead, but also on a range of other worthy causes including bus and tram users’ groups, Leith Civic Trust, the Heart of Newhaven Group and SOSLeith, who nominated her.’
Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting, 10 November 2022
Minutes of the Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting on Thursday 10 November 2022 at 5:15pm, at Trams project compound (165 Leith Walk) Continue reading
Petition: new bus route to connect The Shore to Portobello
LHNCC residents may be interested in this petition. It calls for a new bus route to connect The Shore and Portobello ‘to better connect our vibrant neighboring communities’.
According to the petition organisers, ‘Traveling between The Shore in Leith to Portobello High Street is a quick trip of only a few miles along Seafield, but there is no direct bus route which connects the two. Traveling by car is bad for the environment and not possible for all residents – we believe that beach trips and Shore drinks should be easier for everyone!’
Petition: Western harbour
LHNCC residents may be interested in this petition. It’s about preservation of ‘four abandoned building plots aside the shore of the Forth and Western Harbour’.
According to the petition organisers:
‘In 14 years since, the land has been lying untouched and has become a wonderful example of urban rewilding – a haven for insects, bats and waterfowl including breeding swans and moorhens, goldeneye, herons and kingfisher. It’s also become a very special place for local residents, who come to watch the waterbirds and enjoy the tranquillity of the spot in an otherwise densely developed part of the city.’
However, the plots have now been ‘put up for sale for development’. The petition organisers are calling
- ‘on Edinburgh City Council and the Scottish Government to recognise the value of this self-willed wetland habitat for nature and for people, and to help save it from development.’
- ‘on the landowner, too, to consider and recognise the value of this rewilded land beyond simply being ‘plots for development’, and to enter into dialogue with the community about its future.’
