Portobello Community Council

The 360th meeting of Portobello Community Council will be held on Monday 27th August 2018 at 7:30pm in Portobello Baptist Church Hall, 185 Portobello High Street. Any additional items not already included on the agenda should be notified to the secretary in advance, if possible. 36th-AGM-Minutes.docx 359th-Minutes.docx 360th-Agenda.docx 360th-Agenda (PDF Version)

Dear All   The Health Opportunities Team, aka HOT, is having a summer BBQ tomorrow, Friday 17 August from 1:30-3:30pm. It’s a community event so hopefully they will get people along who maybe were previously unaware of HOT.  Not me, sadly as I have another commitment that I cannot skive!   I don’t know how […]

Dear All   Thank you very much for the kind words about my recently diagnosed ‘frozen shoulder’.  I thought I had edited that bit of indulgent self-pity out of the final text, but it crept back in. I can report that the physiotherapy, acupuncture and the daily exercises are working and I can feel the progress.  […]

Dear All   I hope you’re all having a great Summer!  I’ve been doing a lot of walking about the Ward, besides gardening and time with grandchildren -  and not a lot of writing about it.    Just before the Council recess, the four of us Portobello/Craigmillar Councillors formed a Kiltwalk team and are seeking […]

Scottish Water will be carrying out survey work in the Firth of Forth which will be visible from Portobello waterfront area. This is allow us to identify ways to help improve the water quality at Portobello beaches (West and Central) and Fisherrow. From Monday (August 6) an 18-metre high and 18-wide, floating platform will be […]

The following information is the most up-to-date Portobello Community Council has on the programme to reconstruct Brighton Place with setts. It is based on information shared by Lothian Buses ahead of the 25 June meeting, discussion at the meeting and subsequent follow up from Cllr Laidlaw. City of Edinburgh Council officials were asked for an […]

Apologies for lateness, attached are agenda for the AGM and meeting this Monday 25th June 2018 at 7:30pm in Portobello Baptist Church Hall, 185 Portobello High Street.   pcc-20180625-36th-AGM-Agenda.pdf pcc-20180625-359th-Agenda.pdf 20180528-358th-Minutes.pdf

Dear All   Sorry about last week’s blip in service!  Events and commitments during the week overtook me, and we were away in Dublin for a wedding by Friday morning; so no Update done.  A lovely historic city is Dublin, complete with fabulous trams, lots of people milling around, and hardly any traffic on their […]

The Capital Rail Action Group have submitted a bid to the Local Rail Development Fund for a feasibility study into the reopening of Portobello Railway Station. Alignment with Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance Portobello is a coastal suburb of Edinburgh, lying some three miles from the city centre. It has a central population around its town […]

Dear All   Portobello Timebank’s Members are now over 130 strong and can do lots of things.  They can help in your home or garden, take you shopping or knit you baby clothes, feed your cat or walk your dog, set up your I-pad or teach you sign language. What could you do, if you […]