Community Council Elections – Latest Information

The following is an extract from an email received from City of Edinburgh Council regarding the Community Council elections that will be taking place this month. The important deadline for individuals who want to stand as Elected Community Councillors or as Nominees from Local Interest Groups is 4.00pm on Thursday , 27 February. You must have submitted your properly signed Nomination Forms to the Council by that date. Links to the nomination forms are provided below.

If you are interested in joining the New Town and Broughton Community Council, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please use the Contact Form on our website and we will be back in contact to help you progress your nomination. 

Good afternoon Community Council Office Bearers, Local Interest Groups and EACC,

Update : Community Council Elections 2025

Please read the information below about Community Council Elections 2025 and share with your networks.

    1. Community Council Nominations open 6 February 2025

Nominations open on 6 February 2025 and our public webpages have been updated.  You will be able to download a nomination form and return by

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    • hand in to or post to the Governance Team at City Chambers, High Street, EDINBURGH, EH1 1YJ or Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, EDINBURGH, EH8 8BG.The nomination form is a 2 page document.

Page 1 contains the information that needs completed, in full, to nominate a candidate.

Page 2 contains guidance on how to complete the nomination form including how and where to submit and how to request an accessible version, if needed.

Further tips for completion of nomination forms are also available on our webpages.

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Full Agenda for NTBCC Meeting on Monday 17 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.

  1. Welcome and Apologies
  2. Approval of Minutes of December 2024 Meeting and Matters Arising
    1. Actions from previous meetings: 2025_02_10 NTBCC actions
    2. Draft Minutes of 9 December 2024 Meeting
  3. Police Report for Q1 2025 – TBC (20 minutes)
  4. Chair’s Report – PW (40 minutes)
    1. Edinburgh World Heritage Trust Update
    2. Community Council Elections and Governance Update
    3. Princes Street and Wa­­verley Valley Strategy Consultation
      See draft NTBCC statement.
    4. Napier University Communications Project
  5. Culture and Communities Matters – SH (10 minutes)
  6. Licencing Matters – AG (15 minutes)
    1. Civic licensing: (to note/discuss)
      1. LHC 540091 at 6 Picardy Place
      2. STL 538256 at 10a Blenheim Place
    2. Update from Regulatory meeting 31/1/25 (to note/discuss)
  7. Planning – RP/AG/KL/PW (15 minutes)
    1. Planning Guidance Consultation Timeline (closes 03.04.25)
    2. Powderhall Development – Withdrawal of Planning Application
    3. Current Applications to Note
  8. Transport and Environment Matters – MB (15 minutes)
    1. Transport and Environment Committee (30.01.25) Update:
      1. CCWEL to George Street Active Travel Deputation
      2. Annual Air Quality Report
      3. Tables and Chairs Permits
    2. Trams to Newhaven Project Update
  9. Any Other Business

Transport and Environment Committee Report

2025 NTBCC Meeting Dates

The New Town and Broughton Community Council has agreed its meeting dates for 2025. As in previous years, we will continue to hold meetings on the second Monday of each month (with the exception of January and July when there are no regular meetings scheduled). We are also planning to continue to use a mix of in-person and on-line meetings throughout the year. In-person meetings will be held at the Drummond Room of Broughton St Marys Church on Bellevue Crescent. On-line meetings will be held on Zoom – a meeting link will be provided along with the agenda a week before each meeting.

The following dates and meeting format may be subject to change once the forthcoming Community Council elections have been completed but for the present the dates (and meeting format) for this year are:

  • 10 February  (in-person)
  • 10 March (in-person or on-line depending on outcome of election)
  • 14 April (in-person)
  • 12 May (on-line)
  • 9 June (in-person and currently intended to include our AGM)
  • 11 August (on-line)
  • 8 September (in-person)
  • 13 October (on-line)
  • 10 November (in-person)
  • 8 December (on-line)

If you have not already subscribed to our website, please consider doing so. This will ensure that you are fully up to date with any news regarding our community and future meetings.

NTBCC ordinary meeting minutes 11 November 2024

NTBCC’s minutes secretary/web-weaver apologises for the late publication of these minutes, caused by serious illness. He is now almost fully recovered, and looks forward to more timely work in 2025.

Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, on Monday 11 November 2024 at 7pm

Actions and decisions are red italic. ND (‘no dissent’) means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision.

URLs have been added by the minutes secretary.

1 Welcome and apologies

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NTBCC full agenda Monday 9 December 2024 and conveners’ reports received so far

This will be an in-person meeting: Monday 9 December at 7pm, in the Drummond Room at Broughton St Mary’s Church on Bellevue Crescent.

The bracketed information shows the time allocated to each item.

Convenors’ reports will be added below the agenda as they are received.

  1. Welcome and apologies (5 minutes)
  2. Approval of minutes of November 2024 meeting and matters arising
    1. draft November minutes
    2. Actions from November minutes
Item Actor Action
1.c NTBCC Share Zoom meeting numbers and passcodes, not just URLs
3.a NTBCC To try to make late deputation on EWHT. Failing that, contact CEC planning convenor and/or other cllrs.
5.b P Williamson Check whether planning permission was obtained for metal grills on Royal London Building
5.c S Holledge Convene ad-hoc groups on the mentioned consultations
6 R Price Pick up 24/05018/FUL and 24/05030/FUL with NTBCC’s planning ctte.
7.c LLCC rep Forward guidance relevant to Albany St HMO situation
  1. Police report – TBC (15 minutes)
  2. Chair’s report (15 minutes)
    1. Edinburgh World Heritage Site management plan update
    2. Community council elections and governance update
  3. Transport and environment matters (20 minutes)
    1. Report on EACC Meeting (28.11.24)
    2. Transport and Environment Committee (12.12.24) agenda:
      1. Cleansing Performance Report
      2. Trams to Newhaven Update
      3. City Mobility Plan Capital Investment Plan
      4. Tables and Chairs Permits
    3. East London Street Update
  4. Licensing matters (20 minutes)
    1. Licencing Sub-Committee (29/11/24) – HMO Properties
      1. HMO 540522 at 39-47 Albany Street (Withdrawn 19/11)
      2. HMO 541034 at 27 York Place
    2. Civic licensing – Other Applications: (to note/discuss)
      1. LHC 540091 at 6 Picardy Place
      2. STL 538256 at 10a Blenheim Place
      3. STL 523318 at 11 Marshall’s Court
  5. Planning (15 minutes)
    1. Princes Street/Waverley Valley Strategy consultation (closes 21.02.25)
    2. Current applications to note
  6. Culture and communities matters (20 minutes)
    1. Culture and Communities Committee meeting agenda (5.12.24)
    2. Visitor Levy Consultation (closes 15.12.24) – confirm NTBCC submission
    3. Ross Band Stand Consultation (closes 20.12.24)
    4. Edinburgh Future Libraries Consultation (closes 25.12.24)
  7. Treasurer’s report (5 minutes)
  8. Any other business

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Become a New Town & Broughton community councillor!

(based on this original PDF)

New Town and Broughton Community Council (NTBCC) is the local community representative body established by law.

NTBCC represents an area from the First New Town area of George, Princes and Queen Streets as far north as Powderhall, and from the Moray Feu in the west to Calton Hill in the east — an area with a population of around 18,000.

NTBCC deals with a wide variety of matters of concern to local residents such as transport, road traffic management, development applications, licencing, refuse collections and street cleaning, and environmental matters such as noise problems, air and water pollution and flooding, along with the general state of the public realm. The Community Council covers an area within the World Heritage Site and the New Town Conservation Areas, and therefore has a major interest in heritage and conservation matters.

Like other community councils, every four years people are appointed to sit on the NTBCC as community councillors.

This is early notice that the City of Edinburgh Council, who run the appointment process, intends to seek nominations from people who would like to stand to be a community councillor with a closing date of 27 February 2025.

NTBCC has a maximum number of 24 members consisting of up to 16 elected and co-opted members along with 8 nominated representative members of local interest groups, usually residents associations. If there are more nominations than spaces available, an election will be held on 27 March 2025.

For NTBCC to continue to be an effective representative body, we need to continue to have a range of community councillors who can bring different knowledge, skills and experience – as well as enthusiasm and commitment – to bear on matters of concern to local people.

We meet every month currently alternating between in-person and on-line.

Peter Williamson, Chair NTBCC

NTBCC website: www.ntbcc.org.uk. NTBCC on Twitter: @NTBCC

The New Town And Broughton Community Council Area 1

1 A slightly modified boundary will come into effect on 28 March 2025. This can be viewed in the City of Edinburgh Council paper Review of Scheme for Community Councils and their Boundaries, 26 September 2024.

NTBCC ordinary meeting minutes 9 October 2024

Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, on Monday 14 October 2024 at 7pm

Actions and decisions are red italic. ND (‘no dissent’) means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision.

URLs have been added by the minutes secretary.

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