LHNCC May 2024 minutes

Please note these are draft minutes – the minutes secretary has not yet received confirmation of their acceptance.

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LHNCC April 2024 minutes

Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council ordinary meeting, held at Custom House, on Tuesday 23 April 2024 at 6:30pm

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

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LHNCC **final** agenda: 28 May 2024

  1. Introductions, apologies for absence
  2. Declarations of interest
  3. Minutes of 23 April meeting
  4. Matters arising
  5. Residents’s issues advised prior to the meeting
    • Traffic on Henderson Street
  6. Police report, including responses to items raised
  7. Standing items and updates
    • Planning and licensing
      • Harbour 31
      • Albert Dock railings
      • Seafield update
      • Council-led training session (30 May, 2pm)
    • Transport
      • Trams
      • Buses
    • Environment and green space
      • Water of Leith Basins Stakeholder Group
      • Discovery Gardens
      • Reopening of Coalie Park on 22 May
    • Heritage
      • Murals on walls of South Leith Parish Church
    • Community
      • Update on Leith Community Centre
      • Leith Gala Day (Saturday 8 June)
  8. Edinburgh’s proposed local development plan – City Plan 20230 – report of examination
  9. Councillors’, MSP’s and MP’s reports and updates
  10. Key diary dates ahead of next meeting
  11. AOCB
  12. Date of next meeting: Tuesday 25 June 2024 AGM (venue TBC)

LHNCC agenda: 23 April 2024

  1. Introductions, apologies for absence
  2. Declarations of interest
  3. Minutes of  March 26th meeting
  4. Matters arising (not covered below or carried forward)
  5. Residents’s issues advised prior to the meeting
    • Traffic on Henderson Street
  6. Police report, including responses to items raised
  7. Standing reports
    • Planning and licensing
      • Seafield update
      • Harbour 31
      • Western Harbour Ponds, PAN
      • Albert Dock railings
    • Transport
      • Trams
      • Buses
    • Environment and green space
      • Water of Leith Basins Stakeholder Group
      • Discovery Gardens
    • Heritage
      • Leith Culture and Heritage Group update
    • Community
      • North East Locality Community Planning Partnership, LIP development update
      • Review of Edinburgh Community Council scheme and boundaries
  8. Edinburgh’s proposed local development plan – City Plan 20230 – report of examination
  9. Edinburgh City Councillors’ reports
  10. Local MSP’s and MP’s reports
  11. LHNCC treasurer’s report
  12. EACC update
  13. AOCB, including issues raised during this meeting

Dates of future meetings

  • Tuesday 28th May, 2024, Custom House
  • Tuesday 25th June, 2024, TBA

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

LHNCC agenda: September 2022

This meeting may be online (via MS Teams) or in person – please watch for further announcements.

Time: 18:30 to 20:30, Tuesday 27 September

  1. Introductions, apologies
  2. Declaration of interests
  3. Minutes of August 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 
  10. Consultations 
  11. Licensing
  12. Transport
  13. Environment
  14. ACOB  
  15. Date of next meeting  – Tuesday 25 October 2022
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Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting, 9 June 2022

Minutes of the Community Councils Together on Trams/Trams Team meeting on Wednesday 9 June 2022 at 5:30pm, at Trams project compound (165 Leith Walk)

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

These minutes were not approved for publication until September.

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LHNCC June 2022 minutes: Annual General Meeting

Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council annual general meeting, held via MS Teams, on Tuesday 28 June 2022 at 6:30pm

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

Cllr Booth chaired this meeting.

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LHNCC agenda and Eventbrite link: June 2022

This meeting will be online only. Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leith-harbour-newhaven-community-council-june-2022-meeting-tickets-367091770367

AGM (6.30pm)

  1. Welcome, introductions and apologies
  2. Approval of the Minutes of the 2021 Annual General Meeting
  3. Annual Report, Chairman: brief review of year
  4. Treasurer’s report: accounts for 2021/2022 (to be ratified)
  5. Annual Report, Secretary: brief review of year
  6. Demit of current office bearers and election of office bearers
    1. Chair: Nomination/s (Proposer/Seconder), vote if required
    2. Treasurer: Nomination/s (Proposer/Seconder), vote if required
    3. Secretary: Nomination/s (Proposer/Seconder), vote if required
    4. Vice Chair: Nomination/s (Proposer/Seconder), vote if required
    5. Engagement Officer (Proposer/Seconder), vote if required)
  7. Date of next AGM: Tuesday 27 June 2023

Ordinary meeting (straight after AGM)

  1. Introductions, apologies
  2. Declaration of interests
  3. Minutes of May 2022 meeting
  4. Matters arising
  5. Police Report tbc
  6. Councillor/MSP/MP reports
  7. Chair, Secretary and Treasurer reports
  8. Standing reports:
    1. Planning
      1. Hemmingway’s (Commercial St.)
      2. Forth Ports, Harbour 31
      3. Salamander St.
      4. Tram Depot, 139 Leith Walk
    2. Licensing
    3. Transport
      1. Community Councils Together on Trams (CCTT) – Fencing Rennie’s Isle/Ocean Drive
      2. Edinburgh Bus Users Group (EBUG)
      3. Leith Connections – CPZ
    4. Environment
      1. FOWLB
    5. Heritage
      1. Leith Culture & Heritage Group – Custom House – Feasibility study
      2. Cockburn Civic Trust
    6. Community
      1. North East Community Planning Partnership
      2. Lothian Buses – Petition
  9. Resident Issues
  10. Edinburgh Association of Community Councils (EACC)
  11. AOCB
  12. Date of next meeting – Tuesday 23 August 2022