March 4th, 1:30 – 4pm – Litter clean along Magdalene Glen & Bingham (We’ll set up an event on Facebook for this over the next few days and share that with you) Location: Meet point is half way along Magdalene Glen, at a cycle path junction that leads up to Magdalene Gardens. Area to be […]
Permission Granted for Inflatable Play Area, Refused for Bungee Trampoline, Children’s Roundabout and Refreshment Stance in Straiton Park, Summer 2017. Following our recent correspondence regarding Mr Reid’s application we have been in further discussions with the applicant and local stakeholders. The arrangements offered have been amended and are as follows: The inflatable play […]
Dear All While the Milton Road East SGN works are going on, inevitably leading to disruption to traffic flows on other roads, there is a delay to the reconstruction of Brighton Place. I have been advised these are now due to start sometime between April and June 2017. I am meeting next week with SGN […]
REF: 16/06447/FUL & 16/06449/LBC Portobello Community Council objects to the above applications concerning 14 Bath Street, Portobello. The new owners and the agent for the application attended our meeting on November 28th last year asking for feedback on their new proposals for re-development. To that end we ran a short consultation to gather the views […]
Planning Application: 16/05898/FUL Please find our following comments on the above application. To ascertain local views on the proposals we undertook an extensive survey and the results of that are attached in a separate document. We would wish these comments and views of the community to be considered in detail in relation to the assessment of […]
City of Edinburgh Council are advertising the Powerleague site at Westbank Street, Portobello, for sale, along with the Tumbles car park. The blurb says: “The site is currently part used as a five-a-side facility and part as a car park for the Council owned Tumbles Leisure facility on Westbank Street. The site extends to […]
Dear All Update on the Milton Road East gas replacement works from SGN as follows: “Works on the pipe replacement within this area continue to progress well. Our new main within Brunstane Road South has been laid and will be connected into our network later this week. Works to construct our over ground […]
Shared Vision – Your Decision is an Edinburgh based project, which enables Members of the public aged 8 and above, who live, work, study and volunteer within Edinburgh, to decide how public money is spent in eradicating Islamophobia and associated prejudice behaviour. We understand that Islamophobic behaviour also affects other faith communities. Police Scotland, the […]
City of Edinburgh Council Parks Dept asked for feedback from the community on how to spend £35,000 allocated to one of Portobello’s playparks. Respondents were asked to indicate their preference for one of the following: Replacement equipment for Towerbank Playpark (known as the Fishy Park); Additional equipment including an accessible swing for wheelchair users at […]
Dear All, Nominations for the ‘renewed’ Craigmillar Community Council (CCC) are open until the absolute deadline next Monday 30 January at 4pm and I would encourage you to put your name forward, if you live in that area, if it matters to you, and if you feel you can make a positive contribution. You […]
