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Flood prevention

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has recently published its Forth Estuary Local Plan District. It states that ‘3,300 residential properties and 480 non-residential properties [in the Water of Leith catchment area] are at a medium likelihood of flooding from one or more sources’.

There is a consultation on the plans for the Water of Leith catchment area at https://frm-scotland.org.uk/frmp/ph2_forth-estuary-lpd-10-draft-flood-risk-mana/

Click to obtain relevant documents:

 

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Meet the funders!

(adapted from a flyer and email from Edinburgh Council)

Do you have a community project? Does it need funds? If so, this event is for you!

When: Thursday 23 April 2015, 1.00 – 4.00pm
Where: The Central Library,George IV Bridge Edinburgh
What: ‘Meet the Funders is a free public marketplace event providing access to funding information for community projects.’

See below the cut for more details.

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2 Ocean Drive: LHNCC’s submission

LHNCC has submitted its response to this planning proposal. In summary, LHNCC is not opposed in principle to housing development in this location, However, it is concerned with design points, such as massing the structure along pavement edges and the height of the buildings.

Click to download the full submission: 150219 LHNCC ltr to CEC comments 14_05127_FUL v2

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February Minutes – Final

Click to download the approved minutes of LHNCC’s February 2015 meeting: 2015_02_04 final

Matters discussed included

  • celebrating International Women’s Day in Leith
  • Walter of Leith silt
  • Custom House/Leith Museum
  • Police report
    • speeding/boy-racers in Ocean Terminal
    • roadblocks and drink-driving
    • 101 calls
    • intermittant police attendance at CC meetings
    • stop and search
  • proposed POLHA development adjacent to 2 Ocean Drive

 

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Next LHNCC meeting

The next LHNCC meeting will be on Tuesday 27 April 2021, at 7pm, via Zoom.

LHNCC is aware that online meetings exclude those who cannot access them, whatever the reason. However, this is the best it can offer under the current circumstances.

Further meeting dates, coronavirus permitting, are 7pm to 9pm on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

LHNCC quarterly newsletter: Summer 2020

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