Power of Food Festival: 20/21 June

Edible Edinburgh is supporting the Power of Food Festival over the weekend of 20-21 June. Come with family and friends to celebrate community food growing.

This inaugural community festival involves 15 of the city’s community gardens with highlights ranging from an insect safari to storytelling, birds, music, and more. 

The festival has joined up with Sustrans  to offer a guided cycle tour of the Festival as part of National Cycle Network week and Edible Edinburgh will launch the Sustainable Food City Charter.  

For more details see:  poweroffoodfestival.wordpress.com 

Twitter @PoFFest                  Facebook EdinburghPowerofFoodFestival

Bikes & Rail: June 15 Spokes public meeting

On Mo 15 Jun at 19:30 Edinburgh Cycle group SPOKES are holding a public meeting at Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge.

The meeting will consider what impact for bike/rail there will be from Dutch company Abellio running ScotRail.  

The headline speaker is John Dietz, Cycling Strategy Manager for Abellio ScotRail.

Other speakers are:

• Sarah Ryan, Active Travel Officer for Sestran, the South East Scotland Regional Transport Partnership
• Susan Warren, Development Officer at Transform Scotland
• Robert Drysdale, Campaign for Borders Rail and longstanding bike/rail user

A panel discussion and audience QA chaired by Sarah Boyack MSP – will follow

Spokes Spring Public Meeting: the Bicycle in the City Centre on Th 26 Mar at 7:30pm

A Spokes Spring public meeting will be held on Th 26 Mar at 7:30pm in Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge.

The meeting will discuss the future of Edinburgh city centre – particularly Princes Street / George Street – and the role of the bicycle there.  

The headline speaker is Cllr Lesley Hinds, Convener of Edinburgh City’s Transport Committee and other speakers include:

• The business view – Richard Darke, Projects Manager for Essential Edinburgh
• ‘My view’ – Professor Tom Rye, Director of Napier Transport Research Institute

Audience members will then be able to ask questions and there will be a panel discussion

Agenda for MSCC meeting on We 26 Nov 2014 at 7:30pm

Marchmont & Sciennes Community Council will hold its November meeting on 26 October 2014, at 7:30pm.  

The meeting will take place in our usual venue of St Catherine's Argyle Church halls on Beaufort Road/ Grange Road. 

This will be our third meeting of 14/15.  There will be no meeting in December.  We will resume our regular practice of meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month on 28 Jan 2015 (until Jun 2015).

All who live or work in the area are most welcome to attend 

A G E N D A

 1            Sederunt and apologies

 2             Draft Minutes of last meeting, 22 Oct 2014 and matters arising (not otherwise on Agenda)

·      food recycling

·      MSCC leaflet

·      Cycle route consultation submission

·      Cemetery cheque

 3             Police Report

 4            Update on Meadows from Mike Shields 

Items for discussion

 5            New planning applications (?)

 6            Council Budget challenge

 7            Tarmac over setts

 8            Youth and criminal justice consultation

 9            HMO review

10           Christmas tree event preparations

11           Installation of new noticeboard

Items mainly for information

12            Update on Christmas tree lighting ceremony

13            Treasurer’s report

14            Reports of meetings

                        students in the community funding for projects

                        cycle routes/ CC liaison

15            Sciennes in pilot of school streets scheme

16            AOCB

17            Date of next meeting: 28 January 2015

Bike Marking – Middle Meadow Walk. 29 Oct between 3 and 6pm. First few free!

Agenda for MSCC meeting on We 22 Oct 2014 at 7:30pm (including presentation on How the (City) Council works & Influencing the Council

Marchmont & Sciennes Community Council will hold its October meeting on 22 October 2014, at 7:30pm.  

The meeting will take place in our usual venue of St Catherine's Argyle Church halls on Beaufort Road/ Grange Road. 

This will be our second meeting of 14/15.  We will resume our regular practice of meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month until June 2015 (with the exception of Dec 2014).

All who live or work in the area are most welcome to attend 

A G E N D A

 1                  Sederunt and apologies

 2                     Draft Minutes of last meeting, 24 Sep 2014 and matters arising (not otherwise on Agenda)

·       20mph response submitted

·       LDP response submitted

·       Letter about Christmas refuse /tree collections

 3                   Police Report

 4                  Presentation: How the (City) Council works & Influencing the Council

                  - Stuart McLean

Items for discussion

 5                  New planning applications (?)

 6                  Raising awareness of the Community Council (approval of leaflet)

 7                  Installation of new noticeboard

 8                  Cycle routes/ street improvements (Meadows to canal & Marchmont to Kings Buildings)

Items mainly for information

 9                  Update on Christmas tree lighting ceremony

10                  Treasurer’s report

11                  Reports of meetings

12                  Links to school councils

13                  AOCB

14                  Date of next meeting: 26 November 2014

Spokes Spring Public Meeting on Mo 24 Mar at 7:30 at Augustine Church on George IV Bridge

Agenda for MSCC meeting on We 23 Jan at 7:30pm

Marchmont & Sciennes Community Council will meet on: 

January 23rd 2013 at 7.30 PM 

at St Catherine's Argyle Church Halls, Beaufort Road

A G E N D A

1 Sederunt and apologies

2 Minutes of the meeting on 28th November

3 Matters arising from the minutes

         Temporary classrooms at Gillespie's Primary School (A Philp)

         Recycling facilities

         Planning notifications (A Service)

         Capital Roads Programme

         Christmas tree lighting report (A Service)

4 Police report

5 Treasurer’s report

6  Update on Recycling  (Justine Taylor)

7  Review of Community Council Scheme

8  Nomination for My Place Award (Sarah Sandow)

9   Sundry informations

Improvements to South Meadow Walk                  Environmental workshops

Changes to public entertainment licences              Public participation forum 30th January

RBS Bank closure.                                              Rock and Roll Half Marathon 14th April

Recycling calendars for 2013                                Police priority setting

Scotmid waste on Warrender Park Road               Cycle path to Pollock Halls 

Local Development Plan booklet                          MP's newsletter

Floodline

Next meeting on February 27^th

Joint with James Gillespie’s Primary School Parent Council:  

Discussion of City of Edinburgh Council plans for additional school places in South Edinburgh, and consequences for James Gillespie’s Primary School. 

Quality bike corridor

A consultation on a quality bike corridor proposal from the city centre to Newington to Kings Buildings and the Royal Infirmary is about to start.  Leaflets about the scheme will be distributed along the corridor in the first 2 weeks of November. There will be a public exhibition of the plans at Newington library from 15-29 November and they will also be available on the Council website (link from www.edinburgh.gov.uk/consultations). 

Council officers involved with the design of the scheme will be at public drop-in sessions at St.Catherine's Argyle Church Hall on the 1st and 2nd of December (5-8pm) to discuss the scheme in detail. The leaflets will include a small feedback form - additional comments can be sent to a Freepost address or emailed to qualitybikecorridor@edinburgh.gov.uk.

Survey on residential bike storage

(c) Flickruser cirrus29.rm 2008

Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign, is currently running a project on tackling residential bike storage. They have been awarded a grant from the Climate Challenge Fund to develop information and guidance materials for use by individuals, stairs, developers, councils and others who are looking for the best way to accommodate bikes for every-day use. They hope this will be a starting point to stimulating actual practical storage improvements, to reduce stair problems and to help people to use bikes for their routine local journeys. 


Last month, Spokes ran a short online survey which generated some very useful responses on this subject, but most of the respondents were existing cyclists. They are now very keen to hear from NON-cyclists / very infrequent cyclists, particularly if you are annoyed by parked bikes and/or if you would consider cycling, or cycling a bit more, if it was easier to do so.


Please complete their short online questionnaire (just 9 questions, and the chance to win a set of Spokes maps to help get you cycling more). For any problems, queries or follow-up comments, please email spokesbikestorage@tusks.org.uk.