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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.’

Photo-credit: SOSLeith
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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 →

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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!’

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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.’

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LHNCC October 2022 minutes

Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council ordinary meeting, held via MS Teams, on Tuesday 25 October 2022 at 6:30pm

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

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Warm and welcoming Edinburgh

City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) is undertaking ‘warm and welcoming’ work, in the face of cost of living concerns. CEC suggests organisations can contribute in one or both of two ways:

The Warm and Welcoming Spaces Map

The map will provide a visual representation of what’s available and where across the city. This will be static information which will inform people of location, accessibility, times available and further information via a web link or contact details. Please use this Word document to provide your organisation’s details via email to warm.welcoming@edinburgh.gov.uk.

Warm and Welcoming New Activities and Events

The second part is a web page that will provide information about new activities. These will be added as and when organisations forward the information to us. Please use this Word document: email it to warm.welcoming@edinburgh.gov.uk. The information will also link back to your organisation’s website.

Where activities change or a new activity is to be added, a new pro forma will need to be emailed to warm.welcoming@edinburgh.gov.uk, to ensure the information held by CEC and subsequently promoted is accurate.

What happens next?

Please allow up to 48 hrs for the map and any new events/activities to go live.

The map and activities information will be created using a new Warm and Welcoming Spaces tile on CEC’s Cost of Living page. CEC would encourage organisations to link to that page when promoting anything, because the page has a wide range of useful information. Please contact warm.welcoming@edinburgh.gov.uk, not NTBCC, with any queries.

Although this is a CEC initiative, LHNCC’s web-weaver published it here because organisations and residents in LHNCC’s area may wish to know about it.

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Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting, 13 October 2022

Minutes of the Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting on Thursday 13 October 2022 at 5:15pm, at Trams project compound (165 Leith Walk)

Actions and decisions are red italic. ‘TT’ means ‘Trams Team’. Names are mostly abbreviated to initials. Continue reading →

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LHNCC agenda: November 2022

Time: 18:30 to 20:30, Tuesday 25 October

This meeting will be on Microsoft Teams.

  1. Introductions, apologies  
  2. Declaration of interests
  3. Minutes of October 2022 meeting
  4. Matters arising 
  5. Police Report
  6. Councillor/MSP/MP reports
  7. Chair, Secretary and other officer reports
  8. Residents queries and issues
  9. Planning
    Presentation (30 minutes) Ocean Point 2, PAN submission: S. Harrison Developments & Agent: Alex Orr, Orbit Communications.
  10. Consultations 
  11. Licensing
  12. Transport
  13. Environment
  14. ACOB
  15. Date of next meeting
    Tuesday 24 January 2023

Diary Dates

  • Leith Local History Society 15/11/22 – A History of Madeira St. Venue: Leith Community Centre, Kirkgate. Time: 7.00pm
  • EACC: Meeting 27 October 2022 via Zoom
  • Remembrance Sunday 13 November 2022 – Leith Community Treatment Centre, 3.00pm
  • Merchant Navy Memorial wreath laying – Sunday 20 November 2022, The Shore (Malmaison) 1.30pm.

Proposed scheduled CC meetings: January to June 2023

24 January, 28 February 2023, 28 March, 25 April, 23 May, 27 June (AGM)