(Adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)
Edinburgh Council has launched its budget engagement for 2016-20 and is inviting all partners and citizens to take part. It is asking you to participate in this engagement through completing the feedback channels in the e-flier below and/or attending meetings which you might be invited to.
(abated from an email from the Scottish Government)
An invitation from Keith Brown MSP, Cabinet Secretary Infrastructure, Investment and Cities to attend the Cities Convention on 13 November 2015 at the Royal George Hotel, Perth.
Read the full invitation here: Invitation to Cities Convention 13 November
If you would like to attend this event please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-government-cities-convention-tickets-18608376154
(Adapted from an email from the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland.
This does not affect CC boundaries – these are set by Local Authorites such as Edinburgh Council. However, it might affect the Edinburgh Councillors who are ex-officio CC members.)
The Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland published its proposals for ward boundaries, for each of Scotland’s 32 councils, for public consultation on 30 July 2015.
The closing date for the public consultation is Thursday 22 October 2015.
Comments on the proposals can be submitted through the Commission’s consultation portal website, by email, or in writing to Thistle House, 91 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5HD..
Further information regarding the reviews is available online.
Should you require further information, please telephone 0131 538 7510 for assistance.
(There are some interesting mis-matches between CC areas and Edinburgh Council wards.)
(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)
A consultation is underway on parking in Edinburgh. The draft parking action plan sets out a range of actions and was approved by the Transport and Environment Committee on 25 August. The main actions include:
Edinburgh Council wants to know what you think about the parking proposals to ensure the it makes the right decisions about parking in Edinburgh. Once you’ve read the proposals, please fill in the questionnaire.
Drop in Events
Further information and a full list of local drop in sessions and engagement events is available on the Council’sConsultation Hub at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/parkingconsultation.
Please forward this post to any contacts that you feel would be interested in making their views heard on the proposals. The consultation is open and you can feed back until 31 October. Edinburgh Council looks forward to hearing from you.
Parking Action Plan Team
Parking Operations I Traffic & Engineering I Services For Communities I The City Of Edinburgh Council I 249 High Street I Edinburgh I EH1 1YJ I parkingactionplan@edinburgh.gov.uk
If you wish to comment on this major piece of planning, affecting all of south-east Scotland for the next 20 years, you only have days to do so. SESplan would like to remind everyone to submit their responses on the Main Issues Report no later than 5pm on Wednesday 30 September.
They encourage everyone interested in the future of the region to submit their views on the issues. Comments on the Main Issues Report will be used to inform the next Strategic Development Plan and future planning documents over the next twenty years.
(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)
Edinburgh Council is consulting on its draft parking action plan (PAP). The PAP sets out a range of actions and was approved for consultation by the Transport and Environment Committee on 25 August. The main actions include
(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council’s Parks and Greenspace Service)
The Parks and Greenspace Service (P&GSS) is carrying out a review of the management of a small selection of the events held in Edinburgh’s public parks in 2014-15 and would like to hear your views and comments. P&GSS will use the information you give to identify specific issues and problems, seek solutions and implement any appropriate suggestions in time for next year’s programme. The review will close on Thursday 1st October 2015.
(with thanks to the Scottish Community Alliance for permission to re-use their text in this post)
The idea to crowdsource a Fairer Scotland policy comes from a Government that says it wants to be more open and transparent than ever before. But that’s going to be easier said than done. There’s a whole series of local events being run – as you’d expect – but the hope is that communities will really take it upon themselves to have these conversations. Small grants are available to help with that if needed.
Marco Biagi MSP is hosting a public consultation on September 9th at August United Church on George IV Bridge from 7PM . It will be open to all who wish to attend. The event will require no prior or expert knowledge and is aimed at giving everyone a chance to contribute based on their own experience as Council Tax payers and city residents.
(Adapted from a post on the Cockburn Association’s Facebook page)
Forth Ports have applied for planning permission to demolish the Imperial Grain Warehouse, associated out buildings and external plant | Grain Silo Imperial Dock
The Imperial Dock Grain Elevator is a multi-phase category B listed grain storage building sited adjoining the deep water dock on Leith’s waterfront. The original building dates from 1933-4 and was designed by JD Easton and AH Roberts for the Leith Dock Commission. It was added to and extended in the late 1950’s and late 1960’s. Internally, the building comprises a series of concrete bins used as grain storage silos with an access floor to the top and another to the bottom. To the front, an elevator block still houses the original conveyors and lifts. The building was listed in 1995 when still in use, and was noted as a remarkable survival containing its early machinery.
To find out what Forth Ports want to replace it with, please log onto Edinburgh Council Planning Portal and enter 15/03779/LBC into the search box.
You have until 11 September to comment on this application to demolish a listed building.
lhncc.org.uk 