Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held by Zoom on Monday 12 May 2025 at 7pm
Actions and decisions are red italic. ND (‘no dissent’) means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision.
CC elections
NTBCC ordinary meeting minutes 9 December 2024
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, on Monday 9 December 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.
These minutes could not be published until they had been approved at the following ordinary meeting in February 2025. Continue reading
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 minutes – Monday 14 October 2019
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held in Drummond Room, Broughton St Mary’s church, Bellevue Crescent on Monday 14 October 2019 at 7.30pm
Actions and decisions are red italic. nem con means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision. Continue reading
NTBCC membership
Following the CC election process that affected all Edinburgh CCs at the end of September and beginning of October, the following is CEC’s current list of NTBCC members. Final membership now confirmed by th Returning Officer at the NTBCC meeting on 14 October.
Office-bearers and convenors will be elected from the members during the meeting on Monday 14 October.
- Susanna Beaumont
- Foysol Choudhury
- Susan Duff
- Jonathan Finn
- Laura Graham
- Stephen Hajducki
- Deirdre Henderson
- Simon Holledge
- Jack Hugh
- James Kilner
- Stuart McAllister
- Susan MacInnes
- Carol Nimmo
- Richard Price
- Fran Wasoff
- Alan Welsh (Co-opted 14 October 2019)
The following local interest groups have been appointed to the community council:
| Local Interest Group | Representative |
| Great King Street Association | Sheila Warnock |
| India Street Association | Allan Jack |
| Picardy Residents Association
Regent, Royal & Carlton Terrace & Mews Association |
Peter Williamson
Michael Birch |
Further clarification from Edinburgh Council on status of other LIGs requested on 14 October.
Diversity in Community Councils’ work
(Adapted from a post on Tower Wharf Residents’ Association‘s website)
Community Council elections start on Monday, 5th September. Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council (ELREC) has organised a workshop on Wednesday, 7th September (6pm to 8:30pm) followed by drop-sessions to encourage members of Edinburgh’s ethnic population to become involved with their local community councils.
Community Councils are for everyone, and New Town & Broughton CC would welcome new applications to become a CC member for our area. Nominations open on Monday, 5th September and forms can be obtained from the returning officer, Cllr Karen Doran (email karen.doran@edinburgh.gov.uk) or downloaded from Edinburgh Council’s website from next week.
