In light of the ongoing situation regarding COVID-19, the Local Review Body scheduled to take place on Wednesday 25th March has now been cancelled, and will be rescheduled for a later date as soon as practically possible.
If you have any queries regarding the Local Review Body, please email localreviewbody@edinburgh.gov.uk
We will continue to review our position and keep you up to date as our service adapts. More information on our working practices will follow.
(copied from an email from Edinburgh Council. This CC would not normally be just a mouthpiece for CEC but clearly these are not normal times.)
23 Mar 2020
See this email in your browser here: https://edinburghcoun-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/latest-news-further-measures-to-protect-edinburghs-hardest-hit-residents
(from the Scottish Government website)
An additional £350 million will go to those most affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The funding will be made available to councils, charities, businesses and community groups and designed to be flexible, cutting down on red tape to enable them to respond swiftly and according to local need for people impacted economically or through reduced contact with society, including anyone struggling to access food.
Read more here: https://www.gov.scot/news/helping-communities-affected-by-covid-19/
(with apologies for the delay in posting this)
Following current government guidance on Covid-19, the final Choices for City Plan drop-in event scheduled to take place on Thursday 19 March 2020 at the St Bride’s Community Centre was cancelled.
If you had been planning to attend and/or have any questions about Choices for City Plan 2030, please contact the City Plan team and we will do our best to answer your queries. You can contact us via email cityplan2030@edinburgh.gov.uk or via telephone 0131 529 4692.
The Choices for City Plan online consultation will remain open for you to let us know your comments until 31 March 2030.
A new Development Plan Scheme outlining the proposed schedule to take City Plan 2030 to the Proposed Plan stage will be presented to Committee later in 2020.
You can keep up to date with the project and any changes by:
Thursday 26 March, 8 pm #clapforourcarers!
(copied from tweets from CEC. NTBCC will add this to our sticky post very soon)
If you have Coronavirus symptoms you must put your personal waste (eg tissues and disposable cleaning cloths) in a plastic rubbish bag, tie it when full, then double bag it by putting it in another bag. After 72 hours you can put it outside in your grey or black lidded bin.
From Monday we’re suspending blue box collections for glass because of staff shortages. You can find out what to do with your glass, as well as more updates on changes to bin collections here bit.ly/2UrhpUD. We really appreciate your patience & understanding about this.
Original tweets are here (https://twitter.com/Edinburgh_CC/status/1241079591709618176?s=20 and https://twitter.com/Edinburgh_CC/status/1241338776087072768?s=20
The following information is also on the ‘sticky’ post at the top of our website: https://lhncc.org.uk/2020/03/17/march-lhncc-meeting-cancelled/. We will keep that post updated as appropriate, so why not bookmark it?
You can find relevant information about the Kirkgate and coronavirus at https://leithcommunitycentre.org.uk/coronavirus.
The guidance from the Scottish Government is here: https://www.gov.scot/coronavirus-covid-19.
Here are some other sources of advice about coronavirus:
The LHNCC meeting that would be on Tuesday 24 March is cancelled.
This is in part because our normal venue, the Leith Community Education Centre (the ‘Kirkgate’) is closed due to the coronavirus. The other reason is that LHNCC wishes to act sensibly for its members, residents and other visitors.
We will keep you informed with updates on our website and social media.
As regards future meetings before our AGM in June, we will review holding these based upon the urgency of any matters in our regular business and anything arising that requires our timeous response.
You can find relevant information about the Kirkgate and coronavirus at https://leithcommunitycentre.org.uk/coronavirus.
The guidance from the Scottish Government is here: https://www.gov.scot/coronavirus-covid-19.
Here are some other sources of advice about coronavirus:
Update on Saturday 21 March, copied from tweets from CEC
If you have Coronavirus symptoms you must put your personal waste (eg tissues and disposable cleaning cloths) in a plastic rubbish bag, tie it when full, then double bag it by putting it in another bag. After 72 hours you can put it outside in your grey or black lidded bin.
From Monday we’re suspending blue box collections for glass because of staff shortages. You can find out what to do with your glass, as well as more updates on changes to bin collections here bit.ly/2UrhpUD. We really appreciate your patience & understanding about this.
Original tweets are here (https://twitter.com/Edinburgh_CC/status/1241079591709618176?s=20 and https://twitter.com/Edinburgh_CC/status/1241338776087072768?s=20)
lhncc.org.uk 