Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held at Broughton St Mary’s church on Monday 8 September 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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NTBCC makes deputation on pavement widths to Council
At last Thursday’s Transport and Environment Committee meeting, we made a verbal deputation highlighting problems with the loss of pavement space as a result of the issue of tables and chairs permits and siting of other infrastructure on pavements. We included a number of photographs of current examples from across our area to illustrate our concerns.
We noted that the Council is not consistently following its own guidance contained in the Edinburgh Street Design Guidance and raised concerns about response provided in the Business Bulletin to questions raised by Councillors last September. As a result of the deputations from NTBCC and Living Streets Edinburgh, the Councillors approved a motion to seek a full report on this issue early next year. We are hopeful that this report will provide greater clarity on the rules that should apply especially in busy pedestrian areas.
If you are interested in learning more about this topic you may want to watch the webcast of the Transport and Environment committee meeting. If you see other examples of pavements being restricted, please do forward them to us using X (Twitter) or the contact form.
NTBCC full agenda Monday 8 September 2025 and conveners’ reports received so far
This will be an in-person meeting in the Drummond Room at Broughton St Mary’s church, 12 Bellevue Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 6NE.
It will take place on Monday 8 September, 7pm to 9pm.
Convenors’ reports will be added below the agenda as they are received.
- Welcome and apologies
- Declarations of interest
- Approval of minutes of August 2025 meeting and matters arising
- Chair’s report
- Picardy Place
- Review of constitution
- Visitor levy
- Planning matters
- Licensing matters
- Culture and Communities matters
- Review of City of Edinburgh Council’s culture and communities committee meeting of 21 August.
- Transport and Environment Matters
- Communal Bin Review Phase 6 update – to discuss
- Sub-committee matters
- Meadows to George Street project TRO and RDO Update – to note
- ETRO Travelling Safety (Broughton Street to Canonmills) measures decision – to discuss
- Transport and Environment Committee matters
- Pavement widths ESDG Update – to discuss
- Trade waste update – to note
- City Mobility Plan investment update – to note
- Public toilets update – to note
- Car mileage reduction target update – to note
- Charlotte Square update – to discuss
- Trams to Newhaven remedial work update – to note
- North/South Trams route consultation – to note
- Any other business
Convenors’ and other reports
NTBCC submits detailed objection to Experimental Traffic Order
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.
Civic Licensing – Late Hours Catering Application(s) in NTBCC’s Area : 17 January 2025
Adapted from a civic notice received by the New Town & Broughton Community Council from the Council’s Licensing Service, in relation to new Late Hours Catering Licence application(s) in NTBCC’s area.
Should you wish to share your views/concerns with NTBCC, please contact us by email to licensing@ntbcc.org.uk
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that applications for the undernoted licences have been received by The City of Edinburgh Council.
Anyone wishing to object to the grant of a licence must lodge a written objection or representation specifying the grounds of the objection or the nature of the representation to the City of Edinburgh Council, Licensing Service, 249 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1YJ, by; <see below> (please note we recommend forwarding representations by e-mail to licensing@edinburgh.gov.uk).
543343 43 Broughton Street (Turbo Burrito), EH1 3JU Sun-Thu 23.00-02.00 ; Fri & Sat 23.00-03.00
Closing date for written submissions: 14/2/2025
Full details of the applications can be found here:
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/13239/licensing-registers-civic
NTBCC ordinary meeting minutes 9 September 2024
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, via Zoom, on Monday 9 September 2024 at 7pm
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NTBCC ordinary meeting minutes 12 August 2024
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s AGM, at Drummond Room, Broughton St Mary’s church, on Monday 12 August 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.