Scottish Water: Be Prepared For Winter

Scottish Water launched its winter campaign earlier this week to encourage customers in communities across Scotland to follow their winter code - protect your pipes - be prepared and heat, insulate and protect your home. 

They are also urging holiday home owners, businesses, agents and landlords to take steps to heat, insulate and protect properties and any vacant commercial properties. 

For more details (including winter information, films, and advice) visit their Winter Website.

Coping with emergencies - building community resilience

The Scottish Government have sent us three paper copies of each of two leaflets:

• How you can help make your community more resilient
• Guide to emergency planning for community groups

Let me know if you want one of them.  

More details are available in the full Guide to emergency planning for community groups and at the Ready Scotland website.

South Central Neighbourhood Partnership Meeting - 12 Dec 11 at 6pm

 The South Central Neighbourhood Partnership will meet in public on Monday 12 December 2011 at 6pm (till 8pm) in the Business Centre, City Chambers, High Street, Edinburgh.


For more information please contact: Margaret Campbell (Partnership Development Officer). The MSCC rep on the neighbourhood partnership is Alastair Philp.

The Agenda includes discussion of: 

• Demise of Southside Community Council
• Engagement meetings on the Council Budget Process
• Winter weather working together
• Astley Ainslie/ Royal Edinburgh Hospital redevelopment
• Sub groups progress
• Community grant applications
• Students in the Community event
• It's Good to Talk about Alcohol event

Papers are available:   

1. Go to Council Papers online 
2. Pick "South Central Neighbourhood Partnership" as committee name and "12 December 2011" as dates. 
3. Click "search"

Information on severe weather preparations and decisions

The City of Edinburgh Council have established a severe weather page on their website which they will use to communicate in the event of severe weather this winter.  


It contains information about preparations they are making, what we can do, how they decide which roads to clear and schools to close, and offers an interactive map of gritter routes and grit bins.


update (18 Nov at 20:11): To find out if you could be a Volunteer Snow Warden call 0131 529 3687

A report on the review of the City of Edinburgh Council's arrangements for dealing with severe winter weather was approved at the Policy and Strategy Committee on 6 September. 


The report (Item No 9 - Winter Weather - Working Together (Reports, PDF, 1.37 MB) sets out the results of the public consultation and community engagement exercise which community councils took part in.