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Who we are

NTBCC office-bearers

Office-bearers were elected at NTBCC’s AGM on 10 June 2025.
Any voting member (i.e. elected member, co-opted member or nominated group representative) can be an office-bearer.
Chair
Peter Williamson
chair
<at> NTBCC.org.uk		 Vice-chair
Richard Price
vicechair
<at> NTBCC.org.uk
 Secretary
Susan MacInnes:
secretary
<at> NTBCC.org.uk
Treasurer
Nicholas Reid:
treasurer
<at> NTBCC.org.uk
 Engagement Officers
F Banatvala and S Hodge:
engagement
<at> NTBCC.org.uk

Other elected and co-opted NTBCC members

All members were elected in the city-wide CC elections in March 2025.
NTBCC can have 16 elected and co-opted members. We currently have one vacancy.
Pierre Forissier Annick Gaillard Stephen Hajducki
 Simon Holledge
 Boyan Karabaliev
(picture coming soon)		 Stuart McAllister
Masudun Nessa Mitu
(picture coming soon)		 David Renton
 Emma Swift
(picture coming soon)
Gerald Wells
 Alan Welsh

Representatives of local interest groups

NTBCC can have eight such members. We currently have one vacancy.

Drummond Civic
Association

Ken Lochrie

Great King
Street Association

Vanessa Roëves

India Street
Association

Nicholas Reid

Moray Feu Neighbourhood
Association

Fiona Banatvala
Northumberland Street, Nelson Street and Abercromby Place Association

Joe McAdam

Regent, Royal and Carlton Terraces and Mews Association

Mike Birch

Non-voting (associate and ex-officio) NTBCC members

Ex-officio members (apart from Bruce Ryan) were confirmed at the local government elections on 4 May 2017 or at the most recent Scottish and UK parliamentary elections. Click representatives’s names to access their pages on the Scottish Parliament, UK Parliament or Edinburgh Council websites.
Photos of representatives are from relevant parliament or council websites. (Photo of B Ryan by Hazel Hall.)
Minutes secretary
Bruce Ryan
 Member of UK Parliament
Tracy Gilbert
Member of Scottish Parliament
Angus Robertson
 Member of Scottish Parliament
Ben Macpherson MSP

City Centre ward councillors
Margaret Graham
 Finlay McFarlane
 Claire Miller
 Joanna Mowat

Inverleith ward councillors
Jule Bandel
 Max Mitchell
 Vicky Nicolson
 Hal Osler

Leith Walk ward councillors
Jack Caldwell
 James Dalgleish
 Amy McNeese-Mechan
 Susan Rae

NTBCC committees

This information has been moved to NTBCC’s Committee pages.

NTBCC’s constitution

The text and a link to a scan of the original hard copy are here: http://www.ntbcc.org.uk/about/ntbcc-constitution.

The New Town and Broughton Community Council Constitution refers in many instances to a document called the Edinburgh Scheme for Community Councils (PDF) or ’the Scheme’, which explains the general operation of community councils in Edinburgh.

Where NTBCC works and what it does

New Town and Broughton Community Council is one of Edinburgh’s 44 Community Councils, established under statute, to represent the views of the community within its area, the boundaries of which are set by the Edinburgh Scheme for Community Councils. See CEC’s map of the new NTBCC area. (For a searchable map, go to CEC’s Edinburgh Atlas, then use the layers tool in the top right corner () to show ‘Admin Boundaries’ then ‘Community Council Boundaries (from 28 March 2025)’. Here’s a screenshot showing this.)

The Community Council is charged with representing the views of the local community on a wide range of issues. With our area being right at the heart of Edinburgh, there are always a large number of issues to discuss, ranging from major retail, office or residential redevelopments to the environmental effects of waste management in the city centre. In the last year we made representations on behalf of the community on a number of planning , licensing, environmental and traffic management issues, and attended several Council hearings.

New Town and Broughton Community Council meets in full session nine times a year, generally on the second Monday of each month, excepting January, April and July. These meetings are open to the public, and are attended regularly by ward Councillors and Community Police officers. Meetings are normally held at the Drummond Room, Broughton St Marys Church, Bellevue Crescent, Edinburgh – see NTBCC’s Meetings page.

The Community Council office-bearers are the Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and Engagement Officer. Office-bearers are elected annually, at an Annual General Meeting, normally held in May. The Community Council organises its work through four key committees, Planning, Transport, Environment and Licensing, all composed and convened by Community Councillors, answerable to the Community Council as a whole. Community Councillors are elected tri-annually and normally serve a term of three years. Election is open to anyone aged 16 or over resident within the Community Council’s boundaries.

Here is a video from City of Edinburgh Council’s YouTube site about The Role of Community Councils in Edinburgh: http://youtu.be/erjlWjqKS28