Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held via Zoom, on Monday 10 March 2025 at 7pm
Actions and decisions are red italic. ND (‘no dissent’) means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision.
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Notes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held via Zoom, on Monday 17 February 2025 at 7pm
Actions and decisions are red italic. ND (‘no dissent’) means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision.
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The next meeting of the New Town and Broughton Community Council will be held online on Monday 10 March starting at 7.00pm using Zoom. The Zoom meeting can be accessed using the following link.
The agenda for the meeting is shown below.
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, on Monday 9 December 2024 at 7pm
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These minutes could not be published until they had been approved at the following ordinary meeting in February 2025. Continue reading
NTBCC, along with Old Town CC and West End CC, has issued this statement on Edinburgh Council’s Princes Street and Waverley Valley draft strategy: NTBCC:OTCC:WECC Response to PrinceSt:WaverleyConsult 2025-02-20. The CCs recognise that Princes Street is urgently in need of a plan for ongoing regeneration and restoration, because it has fallen into poor condition.
For many years there has been no clear and agreed view for its future, letting the street become an embarrassment for residents and visitors alike. The statement expresses the view that the priority should be the regeneration and protection of Princes Street. However, the draft strategy fails to address the needs of the street. The CCs contend that it contains no vision, and hence fails to qualify as a strategy.
The full text of the strategy is below the ‘read more’ cut.
The New Town and Broughton Community Council has submitted a detailed objection to an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (TRO/21/27B) seeking the retention of many of the measures introduced in 2021 under the Spaces for People initiative along the route from Canonmills to Broughton Street. These were intended to be a temporary response to the pandemic. We believe that there is no longer a justification to retain many of these measures or continue to evaluate them using an ETRO. Instead, those that are no longer serving a useful purpose should be removed immediately and those that have proven their value should be made permanent. The temporary measures do not properly support increased active travel and have created additional hazards for pedestrians, cyclists and other road users as well as increasing congestion on a busy arterial route leading to more air pollution in a residential and local neighbourhood area.
We also highlighted that the plans provided with the ETRO only provide information on the waiting and loading restrictions. Very limited information is provided on the actual measures which were the reason for introducing the revised waiting and loading restrictions. This makes it very difficult for members of the public to provide meaningful feedback on the ETRO.
No evidence has been provided of any monitoring that has been undertaken while this ETRO has been in effect nor does the ETRO set out any plans for such monitoring which is one of the stated reasons for continuing to have these temporary measures in place.
The original Spaces for People measures and their subsequent retention using the ETRO has been a missed opportunity to address the concerns raised by local residents and businesses. We have urged the Council to look again at the active travel needs of this neighbourhood area with a new perspective that properly responds to the needs of the community.
If you are interested in reading the full objection, please click on the link below
Broughton Street to Canonmills ETRO – NTBCC Objection
If you wish to make your own objection or add other comments, you can do so by email to TRO.Consultations@edinburgh.gov.uk. The deadline for comments is this Saturday, 15 February 2025.
This will be an online meeting: Monday 17 February at 7pm, via Zoom (link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81932704749)
The bracketed information shows the time allocated to each item.
Convenors’ reports will be added below the agenda as they are received.
Transport and Environment Committee Report
Planning Report for NTBCC meeting 11Feb25 as amended 17Feb25