NOTICE OF MEETING: The 370th meeting of Portobello Community Council will be held on Monday 26 August 2019 at 7:30 pm in Portobello Baptist Church Cafe, 189 Portobello High Street. Any additional items not already included on the agenda should be notified to the Secretary in advance if possible. PCC-368th-agreed-minutes-May-2019.pdf PCC-369th-draft-minutes-Jun-2019.pdf PCC-370th-agenda-Aug-2019.pdf

Dear All   On the first day of the new school term this week, detailed planning consent was granted for the new Castlebrae Community High School building. The cash to build the new school is in the Council Capital Budget. The whole fabulous, sector-leading school community was fully involved in all aspects of the design […]

Dear All   A month away in holiday is all very well, but I’m now back to the usual difficulties with changes to IT and 900 emails, which I am getting through very slowly as more come in on top of the pile. Thanks very much for the great support from our small team of […]

Further to on-going discussions taking place with the Council on the future of the Kings Place car park we are consulting on the BROAD options for the use of this space going forward. There have been no commitments from the Council to fund or deliver these options but in order to guide discussions we are […]

From: Erin MacPherson <Erin.MacPherson@edinburgh.gov.uk&gt;Sent: Friday, 19 July 2019 11:15To: secretary@portobellocc.orgSubject: August Licensing Board List – Portobello Community Council Good morning,   Please find below a list of premises that are due to be heard at the August Board that are in your community council area.   Please get back to us by 7th August if […]

    Dear All   There will be no more Update words from me from 2 July to 29 July.   Normal service will resume in August. Do remember you have three more fantastic Local Portobello/Craigmillar Councillors – Kate Campbell, Mary Campbell and Callum Laidlaw – who are equally ‘open for business’, summer hols and family […]

Dear All   At the lovely St Mark’s Church Portobello, there is a Jumble Sale and with refreshments on Saturday 22 June, 10am to 12 noon. This is a small of the huge effort to help raise money for St Mark’s ambitious refurbishment project. See here for more details: http://stmarksportobello.org/our-refurbishment-project/   There’s a sequel to […]

NOTICE OF MEETING: The 37th AGM of Portobello Community Council will be held on Monday 24th June 2019 at 7:30 pm in Portobello Baptist Church Cafe, 189 Portobello High Street. NOTICE OF MEETING: The 369th meeting of Portobello Community Council will be held on Monday 24th June 2019 at 7:30 pm in Portobello Baptist Church […]

Dear All   ArtWalk Porty have a fun Art Hunt ‘Keeping Shop’ event tomorrow, Saturday 14 June 2-4pm in Rosefield Park, Portobello celebrating some of Portobello’s old shops. There will be lots of stories hidden away in the park. Find them all and you can win a lovely tote bag and have your photograph taken, […]

Dear All   From 14 June, the next phase of Brighton Place reconstruction is due to start. MacKenzies will close off the Southfield access at East Brighton Crescent and there will only be one access for residents from the Portobello High Street end.  It is weather dependent as the grouting between the setts needs to […]