Agenda for MSCC meeting on We 25 Feb 2015 at 7:30pm

Marchmont & Sciennes Community Council will hold its February meeting on We 25 Feb 2015, 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 fifth meeting of 14/15.  We will continue our regular practice of meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month until Jun 2015, and then take a break till Sep 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, 28 Jan 2015 and matters arising (not otherwise on Agenda)

          ·      Food recycling bins

          ·      Events/ Marches/ Rentals

          ·      Plans for Royal Hospital for Sick Children site

          ·      Pedestrian footbridge to the Royal Edinburgh hospital site

 3             Police Report

 4            Update on Meadows from Mike Shields 

Items for discussion

 5            New planning applications

 6            Edinburgh Association of Community Councils (workshop)

 7            Digital Engagement Workshop

Items mainly for information

 8            Treasurer’s report

 9            Road safety outside JGPS (letter)

10           Reports of meetings

11           Update on Noticeboard for centre of Marchmont Crescent

12            AOCB

13            Date of next meeting: 25 March 2015

Edinburgh University Wind Band Free Community Concert on Su 8 Feb at 3pm

Agenda for MSCC meeting on We 28 Jan 2015 at 7:30pm

Marchmont & Sciennes Community Council will hold its January meeting on We 28 Jan 2015, 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 fourth meeting of 14/15.  We will continue our regular practice of meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month until Jun 2015, and then take a break till Sep 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, 26 Nov 2014 and matters arising (not otherwise on Agenda)

·      food recycling bins

 3             Police Report

·      Behaviour outside James Gillespie’s Primary School at school start

 4            Update on Meadows from Mike Shields 

Items for discussion

 5            New planning applications (?)

 6            Edinburgh Association of Community Councils (what role do we wish to play)

 7            CCTV on Meadows (no consensus)

 8            Christmas Tree/ refuse collection

 9            Sick Kids re their plans

Items mainly for information

10            Christmas tree lighting ceremony: thanks to organisers

11            Treasurer’s report (in absentia)

12            Reports of meetings

                        Neighbourhood Partnership

                        HMO group

13            Sciennes in pilot of school streets scheme

14            MSCC leaflet

15            Update on Noticeboard for centre of Marchmont Crescent

16            Parking review

17            AOCB

18            Date of next meeting: 25 February 2015

updated: Consultation on street closure outside Sciennes (among other places) and drop-in session

School Streets Project- Proposed Experimental Traffic Regulation Order - Prohibition of Vehicular Traffic (During School Travel Periods)

City of Edinburgh Council is seeking the views of stakeholders and the public on its school streets proposal. This will introduce school streets at 11 primary schools across Edinburgh for a period of 18 months.  These locations have been experiencing on going road safety issues caused by drivers bringing their vehicles too close to the school gates.

More details of the proposals are available at the CEC consultation website.

Plans and information about how the scheme will operate will be shown at a drop-in session at Sciennes Primary School on Thursday 15 January, 2015 at 3:30 PM - 7:00 PM.  Staff from the council’s Road Safety team will be on hand to answer questions and record your comments.

Update: if you couldn't make it along to the drop-in session take a look at the plans for Sciennes (PDF) and comment using this online form.

CANCELLED: James Gillespie’s Primary School Choir are singing carols outside Margiotta on Warrender Park Road

unfortunately the Carol singing by JGPS at 5pm today outside Margiottas has been cancelled due to slippy pavements

Changes to bin days over the festive season

Festive rubbish and recycling collections

As a public service I am reproducing content from the Edinburgh Council website:

Festive rubbish and recycling collections

Christmas and New Year bin collections

Rubbish and recycling collections due on Thursday 25 December will be collected on Saturday the 27 December.

Rubbish and recycling collections due on Thursday 1 January will be collected on Saturday 3 January.

If your bin or boxes are not collected, please leave it out until we collect it. There are no changes to pickups on Friday 26 December and Friday 2 January. Please make sure bins and boxes are out by 6am.

Remember you can recycle a wide range of items over the Christmas season includingwrapping paper, Christmas trees, bottles and food waste.  Check the what goes in what bin page to find out more.

Christmas Tree Recycling

You can recycle real Christmas trees through the garden waste service. Place your tree at the kerbside, next to your brown bin by 6am on your garden waste pick up day. Bases should be removed and trees over 6ft tall should be cut it in half.

You can also take Christmas trees to any of the Community Recycling Centres. The sites will be closed 25, 26 December and 1, 2 January.

If you live in a communal bin area, just leave your tree beside the nearest shared bin on one of the dates below. They will be turned into compost and used in parks and gardens.

South- Thursday 8, 15, 22 January

If you need to check which neighbourhood you live in, please enter your postcode on our online map.

2015 Calendars

There are no changes to the 2015 pickups. Your new bin calendars will be on our bin collection day page at the end of December or you can order a copy by contacting us from the 15 December 2014.

Today: Marchmont & Sciennes CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING EVENT 4pm

Today at 4pm by the tree at corner of Marchmont Crescent and Warrender Park Road. 

Carols and mince pies available!

CANCELLED: Carols from JGPS choir outside Margiotta W Pk Rd 11 Dec at 5pm

unfortunately the Carol singing by JGPS at 5pm today outside Margiottas has been cancelled due to slippy pavements

Join us for our CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING EVENT: Saturday 6th December 4pm

 

Why not join us on Wed 26 Nov at 19:30 to discuss matters of local importance?

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

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.

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

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. You can also comment on the 2015/16 budget proposals. Take a look at the overview, or download the full proposals. Your feedback will help the Council to make its final budget decisions on 12 February 2015. Find out more www.edinburgh.gov.uk/budget

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