Dear All   The next Figgate Park Clean Up is on Sunday 29 April , 9.30am-11.30am. The meeting point is the notice board near the pond, where the Figgate Friends team will be handing out litter pickers, bags and gloves. There’s tea, coffee and biscuits afterwards at the Air Training Corps (ATC) Hut beside the […]

We have received an update from City of Edinburgh Council on the planned reconstruction of Brighton Place with setts: Sett reconstruction work will be carried out from the railway bridge to Portobello High Street. The contract to carry out the work has yet to be awarded, therefore, there is no official start date. However, it […]

Tribe Porty is a community coworking and creative events hub. View this email in your browser   The Edinburgh Tool Library    The Edinburgh Tool Library is delighted to be opening a new base, this time as tenants of Tribe Porty, starting on 1st May.  Building on the success of engagements based out of Portobello Library, […]

Dear All   The Eden Project’s Big Walk is coming to Portobello on Saturday 26 May 11am-2pm.  Four walkers are setting off from Morecombe on 15 May on four routes across each of the four nations of the UK, each covering at least 250 miles over 21 days.  They will be visiting and walking with […]

From the Edinburgh Council consultation hub: "Our school crossing guides continue to deliver an excellent and highly valued service to communities across Edinburgh and we want to make sure this continues. We have already studied our existing patrol sites; how many people use them, traffic levels and where they are located. We are now getting […]

Licence application for beach volleyball tournaments on Portobello Beach – 12 May, 2-3 June, 11-12 August, 25-16 August. Any comments to parks@edinburgh.gov.uk by 28 April 2018.   PERMISSION-request-form.pdf

Dear All   This is a second edition – and late! The Council’s server was down in Friday, so the email advance notices I had carefully lined up for the weekend are no use to you now.  So, Friday’s Update was first published on Facebook page, not sent by email. But it didn’t necessarily reach […]

Dear All   Coffee mornings are like buses in a traffic-congested city;  nothing doing, then they all come along at the same time. Two coffee mornings this Saturday! The Portobello Timebank one in the Baptist Church Hall I told you about last week. The Guild at Portobello and Joppa Parish Church, Brunstane Road North are […]

18/01368/FUL | Application for 13 residential units and associated development. | Site 30 Metres North Of 18 Pipe Lane Edinburgh   View plans and make representations on the City of Edinburgh Council Planning Portal: ·         https://citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=P6CGCIEWGX300 ·         Application ref: 18/01368/FUL Design-Statement-compressed.pdf

Dear All   Spring is on its way which means a community work day in the Community Orchard opposite Brunstane Station tomorrow, Saturday 31 March, 10.00 am till 2.00pm. Come along and enjoy the space, and bring your gardening gloves if you want to help. The orchard group will be checking and tidying around the […]