Minutes of the Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council meeting, held at the Leith Community Education Centre on Tuesday 25 February 2020 at 7pm Continue reading
Planning
LHNCC submissions about the Baltic St/Constitution St development
LHNCC has submitted support of this development: Click here to see the full PDF in a new window.
CityPlan 2030 update
(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:
- Visiting the website at Edinburgh.gov.uk/cityplan2030
- Subscribing to our blog at https://planningedinburgh.com
- Following us on twitter at @planningedin
- Join in the conversation [on Twitter and Facebook] by using the #cityplan2030 hashtag. Here’s the Twitter link: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cityplan2030&src=typed_query
Leith Creative – Making Places
Adapted from an email form Citizen Curator, with apologies for late posting by LHNCC. (The email was received in good time.)
I wanted to initially flag that Leith Creative and the Scottish Community Development Center will be co-hosting three meetings over the coming months.
Building on from the Leith Conference in October 2019, the meetings will focus on the key issues effecting the area, the development of a Local Place Plan and the potential of a new Leith Community Development Trust.
I will circulate booking details early February, but for your diary – meetings will be held in the Leith Community Center between 6.30 and 9pm, on the;
- 20th February
- 19th March
- 23rd April
The meetings are open to all so please do share as soon as bookings open. A light bite and refreshment will be available on the night.
As some of you know over the break I took the decisions to step down from Citizen Curator, the charity that supported this Leith Conference and founded Leith Creative. It will be winding down over the coming months. I hope to finish this project and focus on the foundation of something new for the area to continue this work.
In the mean time, just a quick thank you for your support so far, and I will be responding in person shortly.
Best wishes
Duncan
LHNCC agenda: February 2020
- Introductions, apologies
- Declaration of interests
- Minutes of November 2019 meeting
- Matters arising
- Police report
- Councillor/MSP/MP reports
- Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and Vice Chair reports
- Standing reports:
- Planning
- Planning subgroup report: 1–5 Baltic Street and 7–27 Constitution Street
- Cockburn Association, Edinburgh Civic Forum Meeting, City Chambers 6.00pm-8.00pm, 3 March 2020
- Licensing
- Transport
- Trams/CCTT (Community Councils Together on Trams)
- EBUG (Edinburgh Bus Users’ Group)
- Environment
- The Water of Leith Partnership Agreement
- Heritage
- Community
- £eith Chooses Awards: Leith Community Centre, 6.00pm-7.30pm 18 February 2020
- Leith Community Development Trust – Leith Community Centre, 6.30pm 20 February 2020
- Leith Festival Gala Day – 13 June 2020
- VE Day – 8 May 2020
- Planning
- Edinburgh City Plan 2030 and consultation
- Ocean Terminal – Saturday 29 February 11.00am-3.00pm
- Neighbourhood Networks
- AOCB
- Date of next meeting: Tuesday 24 March 2020 (7pm– 9pm)
National Planning Framework 4 – Programme of Engagement 2020
(adapted from a document from the Scottish Government)
There are many ways for people to contribute. The programme includes
- Call for Ideas: Between January and March 2020, the Scottish Government (SG) will have an open call for ideas. SG will be particularly interested in responses to a series of questions we have developed to help frame discussions.
- NPF4 Scotplan 2050 Roadshow: SG is organising a programme of events across the country to give people the opportunity to consider key questions on the NPF. The events will be informal and participative. The programme will be set out on www.transformingplanning.scot.
- Meetings, seminars and conferences: SG will look to respond positively to requests for attendance at events to inform and involve stakeholders in developing the scope and content of NPF4
- Community Grant Scheme: SG will support communities to engage locally through a small grants scheme to assist them in considering the scope and format of NPF4.
- Resource pack: To help facilitate discussion, SG will provide materials pitched at a range of audiences to help people engage.
You can read the full document (PDF) by clicking here: programme-for-engagement-final-for-web-jan-2020
Consultation on updating the planning performance and fee regimes
adapted from an email from the Scottish Government
Recently, the Scottish Government published a consultation on updating the planning performance and fee regimes which will run until 14th February 2020. This was a key action identified in our work programme which was published in September 2019. The consultation reflects Scottish Ministers’ commitment to the principle that any increases to planning fees must be linked to improved performance.
The consultation seeks to move planning fees towards covering the costs of determining applications for planning permission as well as seeking views on what additional services which planning authorities provide should be subject to a fee, the circumstances whereby an authority may reduce or waive a planning fee and the introduction of charges for appealing planning decisions.
https://consult.gov.scot/planning-architecture/planning-performance-and-fees/
