Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Agenda for MSCC meeting on We 26 Nov 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
Monday, 17 November 2014
new set of natural neighbourhoods for Edinburgh
The City of Edinburgh Council thank everyone who took part in their natural neighbourhoods consultation. They received thousands of responses using online surveys, a telephone survey and face-to-face methods.
In a competition run jointly with Our Town Stories and Capital Collections five lucky entrants won fabulous framed prints of their chosen “patch”.
The Council approved a new set of natural neighbourhoods for the city in September which you can view on an interactive map. These boundaries will be used by the Council and its partners to plan services, consultations and inform policy and strategy development.
If you’d like to know more, please contact the Business Intelligence Service at the City of Edinburgh Council.
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Neighbourhood Partnerships – Making it happen
The South Central Neighbourhood Partnership’s local community plans 2014-17 are now available.
Thank you to everyone who gave their views to the Neighbourhood Partnerships, attended an event and completed a survey. All the feedback gathered has been used to identify priorities to inform the new local community plans. The priorities in the plans cover a range of themes including health, transport, environment, community safety, children and older people.
Neighbourhood Partnerships bring together the community, Police, Health, Fire, voluntary sector and elected members, supported by officers from the Council. Working together, Neighbourhood Partnerships aim to tackle the issues that matter locally and make neighbourhoods a better place to live.
The South Central Neighbourhood Partnership local community plan 2014-17 is now available to view online at Hard copies are also available from local libraries or neighbourhood offices.
To get involved in your local Neighbourhood Partnership visit one of our events, attend a Neighbourhood Partnership meeting or talk to us face to face in a local neighbourhood office. You can also contact us online - tweet us your thoughts @Edin_NPs or send an email.
Convener
South Central Neighbourhood Partnership
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Can you balance Edinburgh Council's budget? Have a go!
Edinburgh’s budget challenge
The Council is facing a budget challenge which affects how much money they have to invest in our services in the coming years. The amount of money they get from the Government and through Council Tax has remained about the same, yet it’s costing more money to run services and there are more people in the city needing help.
They need to save £67 million from their budget over the next three years and still make sure they can provide the services that are important to the people of Edinburgh.
Play your part
Tell them where you would invest and where you would save money to balance the Council’s budget. Please let them know your views by 19 December 2014.
Watch a short animated film to find out more about the Council, the services they provide for the city and how you can have your say.
Take the budget challenge with the online budget planner and tell them what services you would spend or save money on in 2015 to 2018.
Your feedback will help the Council to make its final budget decisions on 12 February 2015.
Find out morewww.edinburgh.gov.uk/budget |
Saturday, 11 October 2014
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
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Volunteering For Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland – You have the power to change lives.
Every week over 1,200 volunteers across Scotland help Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) to deliver its services and / or help us to raise the funds needed to pay for them.
Delivering over 125,000 hours of volunteering, this equates to an economic benefit of over £1,200,000 to CHSS.
Volunteering is therefore vital to our charity and a highly valued way for people to interact with our charity and those that use our services.
If you would like to assist (volunteers in the Marchmont shop particularly welcomed) please contact Laura Croft who manages the Shop.
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Agenda for MSCC meeting on We 24 Sep 2014 at 7:30pm (including presentation on How the (City) Council works & Influencing the Council
Marchmont & Sciennes Community Council will hold its September meeting on 24 September 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 first 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 Minutes of last
meeting, 25 Jun 2014 and matters arising (not otherwise on Agenda)
3 Police
Report
4 Presentation:
How the (City) Council works & Influencing the
Council
-
Stuart McLean
Items for discussion
5 New
planning applications (?)
6 Sciennes
Playground
7 Raising
awareness of the Community Council
8 Christmas
tree lighting
9 20mph
consultation
10 local
development plan
Items mainly for information
11 Treasurer’s
report
12 Reports
of meetings (neighbourhood partnership and civic forum)
13 NP
action groups: call for representation
14 Community
engagement survey
15 Jawbone
arch appeal
16 Pedestrian
Crossing: Marchmont Road (at W Pk Rd)
17 Links
to school councils
18 Christmas
refuse collections
19 Noticeboard
20 AAH
redevelopment
21 AOCB
22 Date
of next meeting: 22 October 2014
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Speak up Speak out about children affected by drugs and alcohol
It’s the fifth in a series of campaigns by the City of Edinburgh Council, Police Scotland and NHS Lothian highlighting public protection issues.
The campaign will tackle the issues and offer help, support and advice to youngsters whose lives are affected by drink and drugs:
- by targeting pregnant women, advising them to avoid drinking alcohol or taking drugs and educating on the risks of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
- by encouraging parents to act as role models and think about the effect of drinking in front of their children
- offering support to children whose parents have problems with drugs or alcohol supporting parents and carers to get advice on how to talk to their children about drinking and drugs
- signposting support services to children who are being pressured to take substances or are worried about friends
- asking neighbours worried about a local family to speak out on a child’s behalf
- by publishing a toolkit for professionals involved in the support of children affected by drugs and alcohol.
To coincide with FASD Awareness Day, a range of posters will be seen in venues across Edinburgh to spotlight the main issues and directing people to a variety of sources for help:
• edinburgh.gov.uk/speakupspeakout
• Social Care Direct, The City of Edinburgh Council’s social work service (0131 200 2324).
• Edinburgh & Lothian Council on Alcohol (0131 337 8188)
• Crew 2000 (0131 220 3404)
• ChildLine (0800 1111)
A radio advert will be aired on Forth One and Two from Tuesday 9 September and a series of child-friendly posters have been developed for primary and secondary schools.
If you’d like to hear more about the campaign or would like some campaign materials, please
contact ann.duff@edinburgh.gov.uk
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
What do you think about online communications from the planning department?
Details of the survey can be found on the Planning Edinburgh blog.
The survey shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to complete. You can also take the opportunity to sign up to our blog. Please respond by 8 Sep.
Please feel free to share the survey.
Monday, 25 August 2014
Edinburgh Local Development Plan - Second Proposed Plan - what do you think (by 3 Oct)?
The Council has prepared a Second Proposed Edinburgh Local Development Plan. It sets out policies and proposals to guide land use and development.
The Second Proposed Plan is accompanied by a Environmental Report - Second Revision, a Second Proposed Action Programme, a revised Draft Habitats Regulations Appraisal Record and a number of other supporting documents. These include a Schedule of Representations, which explains what regard has been had to representations made in 2013 to the first Proposed Plan.
All of these documents are available for inspection from 22nd August – 3rd October 2014 at:
- Planning and Building Standards Reception, Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh between the hours of 9.00am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday.
- All Council libraries during normal opening hours.
Representations can be made on the Second Proposed Plan. These must be submitted in writing using the form provided by 5.00pm on Friday 3 October 2014. Representations can be submitted electronically to localdevelopmentplan@
Copies of the representations form and guidance note on submitting representations are available on the above website, at Waverley Court and in Council libraries.
If you made a representation to the first Proposed Plan in 2013, please note that you will need to resubmit your representation if you wish it to be formally considered by the Council and dealt with through the examination process.
Written comments can also be submitted on the Environmental Report, Action Programme, Draft Habitats Regulations Appraisal Record and other supporting documents. These should be sent to the above email or postal address by Friday 3rd October 2014.
Drop-in engagement events have been arranged to provide further information on any aspect of the Second Proposed Plan:
- North West Edinburgh, Rosebery Hall, Queensferry, 26 August, 3.30-6.45pm.
- West Edinburgh, Drumbrae Library Hub, 28 August, 4-7pm.
- South East Edinburgh, Kings Manor Hotel, Milton Road, 1 September, 4-7pm.
- South West Edinburgh, Gibson Craig Hall, Currie, 3 September, 4-7pm.
- South East Edinburgh, Faith Mission Hall, Gilmerton, 4 September, 4-7pm.
- General session, Urban Room, Waverley Court, East Market Street, 22 September, 4-7 pm.
For more details see www.edinburgh.gov.uk/
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Proposed 20mph zone consultation
Following a successful pilot in South Edinburgh a 20 mph speed limit is proposed for the City Centre, main shopping streets and residential areas. Please see the map of proposed 20mph speed limits to see which streets will be affected.
Further information on the proposals can be found in a council report and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
Your views on the speed limit proposals are sought: please complete a questionnaire. Proposals will also be displayed in libraries and Council Offices from the end of August until 17 October.
A series of public meetings will be held. The one intended for Marchmont, Sciennes and Grange residents is at the City Chambers on Tu 23 Sep at 7pm.
Thursday, 14 August 2014
Easy Read version of the Policy Memorandum for the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill
An Easy Read version of the Policy Memorandum for the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill has been published on the Scottish Government website.
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Scottish Independence Referendum: Register to vote
1 in 10 residents are still not registered to vote
Don’t be the odd 1 out
The Scottish Independence Referendum takes place on Thursday 18 September 2014. But to vote you must be registered by 2 September 2014.
Not sure if you are registered? Aged 16 or 17? Moved home?
Contact the Electoral Registration Office on 0131 344 2500.
Being on the register gives you the chance to have a say on important issues that affect you. It can also improve your credit rating and help with background checks.
Use, don’t lose your vote
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