In February Portobello Community Council ran a short consultation to ascertain feelings toward two proposals for bringing Portobello Town Hall back into use. The consultation attracted a reasonably limited number of responses – 143. A brief summary follows, along with full anonymised results attached. Peter Schaufuss People who commented in favour of this proposal are […]

Dear All    Councillors been through an IT migration this week, which is always a traumatic experience but it went OK, so I am up and running again and no contacts or key files lost.  I think.  But I now can’t get Pages.  And Word doesn’t seem to let me harvest and the copy links to […]

“Please see the attached New Civic Licence Notice for a Street Trader’s Licence for a mobile, wood fired sauna.” Any representations should be sent to licensing@edinburgh.gov.uk by 12 April.   Civic-New-Licence-Notice.pdf 2-Map-and-Image-of-Location.pdf Overview-Point-568-Portobello-Beach-Sauna-Cont2.pdf Dimensions-architect-drawings.pdf

Dear All   A day late this week to pick up this news…Community enterprise Portobello Central Ltd delivered their improved ‘best and final’ proposal to the City of Edinburgh Council by the noon Friday deadline.  Entitled ‘Delivering New Life’ the bid explains how Portobello can implement the ideas the community came up with for ‘New […]

Please see the attached re an update on the works at Baileyfield, including the fact that piling work will recommence next week (WC 15/3/21) Baileyfield-South-development-letter-11th-Mar-21.pdf

Dear All   Magdalene Guerilla Gardeners and Portobello Timebank have organised a litter picking event in on Saturday 13 March from 1.30pm to 3.30pm. Do feel free to join in!  Greig McGlinchey wants to inspire the whole community to take pride in their surroundings.  He says that looking out of windows to see rubbish and […]

We have been asked to share the attached document regarding safety signage on Portobello beach which is being put in place by Police Scotland. Any enquires please direct to EdinburghCPTNorthEast@scotland.pnn.police.uk  using the title: Portobello Beach Safety Signage Portobello-Beach-Safety-Signage-Document.pdf

Dear All   This month’s Portobello Market is on this Saturday, 6 March in Brighton Park from 9.30am to 1.30pm.  More details here: https://www.pedal-porty.org.uk/food/portobello-market/   It was good to have a virtual management committee meeting this week with the fabulous Jack Kane Community Centre team.  It’s always a pleasure to hear about their work and […]

Dear All   Duddingston cycle path is closed between North Cairntow and the Bingham Tunnel until the 3 March to allow necessary forestry works to happen before the start of the nesting season.  The long-established gypsy traveller people’s site here is being redesigned and rebuilt by the Council’s housing service, working closely on the design […]

City of Edinburgh Council are currently running a consultation on the retention of ‘Spaces for People’ measures, which have been put in place during the covid pandemic. The measures were put in place to: help parents/carers and children to physically distance near schools help people to physically distance while using high streets, some city centre […]