(LHNCC’s web-weaver – among others – subscribes to the Scottish Community Alliance‘s weekly e-newsletter. It’s usually very good reading, not least because SCA’s director is also a member of our neighbouring Leith Links CC, and has his thumb on the pulse of many community and community-council matters.
Here’s the latest edition, featuring the Scottish Government’s Democracy Matters programme.) Continue reading
(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council. NB this is an Edinburgh Council exercise, but LHNCC is happy to disseminate information that will affect its citizens.)
Edinburgh Council is asking for feedback on its initial ideas for meeting the continuing pressures on Council services and budgets.
Since 2012 Edinburgh Council has saved £240 million, but it expects it will need to save at least £106 million more between now and 2022/23.
No decisions have been taken yet and feedback will shape the long-term plans as well as the more detailed proposals for balancing the budget in February for 2019/20.
Please complete the online survey or try your hand at prioritising services and balancing our budgets by 7 December. You can also read Edinburgh Council’s ideas Planning for change and delivering services and fill in a print survey which will be available in libraries and Council offices from 15 October.
Please share this information far and wide.
Thank you.
Ross A Murray | Governance Officer | Strategy & Insight Division | Chief Executive | City of Edinburgh Council | Business Centre 2.1 | 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh | Tel 0131 469 3870 | email Ross.murray@edinburgh.gov.uk
Following on from a previous post, there is a survey on Edinburgh Council’s consultation hub.
This covers the three components of the ‘Connecting our City, Transforming our Places‘ project ‘will help achieve the Edinburgh 2050 vision; a fairer, thriving, connected and inspired city’. These components are:
As with the previous post, this is an Edinburgh Council exercise.
(LHNCC apologises for delayed publication of the following. This was due to personal holidays. In future, CCTT/TT meeting minutes will be published much sooner after the meetings.)
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(LHNCC apologises for delayed publication of the following. This was due to personal holidays. In future, CCTT/TT meeting minutes will be published much sooner after the meetings.)
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(adapted from an email from Edinburgh’s Lord Provost)
As you may be aware, an engagement campaign has been launched with Edinburgh citizens to establish their vision for how they would like the city to be in 2050. To arrive at the best and most compelling vision for Edinburgh in 2050, we need as many citizens to contribute their views and aspirations, via edinburgh2050.com. This will help to identify areas of consensus that the city can unite behind and work towards as a common goal. The greater the number of contributors, the more accurate and representative the City Vision becomes and the greater the strength it then has.
Frank Ross
Lord Provost
(Please note that this is an Edinburgh Council exercise. It may well be worthwhile visiting the tram project timeline (Tram pre/construction programme as published and communicated by Tram Team) and CCTT’s Joint Statement on proposed Tram Extension)
Edinburgh Council are consulting on the latest version of their plans for ‘trams to Newhaven’.
Please see the revised plans below (click the graphic to see the full-sized PDF), then tell Edinburgh Council what you think via the consultation hub.
(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council.)
It may well be worthwhile visiting Andy Wightman’s post on the subject: http://www.andywightman.com/common-good.
In accordance with Part 8 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 which relates to Common Good assets, Edinburgh Council is consulting on its proposed common good asset register.
The register and information on common good can be found on the Council website.
The Scottish Government has produced guidance with additional information.
You are welcome to consider the proposed common good register in conjunction with the criteria shown on the webpage which qualifies a property for common good status. If you have any comments or representations to make you can do this using the link on the webpage to the Council’s Consultation Hub
Please feel free to distribute this email to any persons or groups you feel may be interested in this process. The same information is being sent to Councillors, MP’s and MSP’s, Locality managers and to interest groups such as Edinburgh World Heritage and the Cockburn Association for example.
Thank you for your time in considering this consultation.
Yours faithfully,
Craig Lamont | Senior Estates Surveyor |City of Edinburgh Council |Estates Services |Property & Facilities Management |Resources | Level 1.5 Waverley Court | 4 East Market Street | Edinburgh | EH8 8BG |
t: 0131 529 5983 | f: 0131 529 6214 | m: 07733 015 055
craig.lamont@edinburgh.gov.uk | www.edinburgh.gov.uk/commercialproperty
(Please note that the following is about an Edinburgh Council exercise.)
Please click the graphics to see Edinburgh Council’s flyer and booklet about this. Please tell Edinburgh Council what you think! There is a lot more information in the Council booklet.
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