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Next NTBCC meeting, contacting NTBCC

The next public NTBCC meeting will be on Monday 13 May. It will be an online meeting via Zoom (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84227025876?pwd=B6xb8yGjJFbBuEhsFRTaaPnlxbMPlK.1).

If there are issues that we should be aware of in the interim, please contact us either by using  the contact form on this website or send us a message via @NTBCC on Twitter and we will respond as soon as we can.

The standard agenda will be published at least 7 days prior, with a detailed agenda following shortly afterwards.

As always, members of the public are very welcome to attend this meeting and future meetings (whether in-person or virtual).

Future meetings are likely to follow this outline/’statutory’ framework, with detailed agendas being issued closer to the actual meeting.

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Meadows to George Street presentation/discussion at NTBCC meeting (13 May, 7pm, via Zoom)

There will be a presentation and discussion at the meeting of the Town & Broughton Community Council  on Monday 13 May 2024 on the City Council’s proposals for major changes to the transport corridor from the Meadows to George Street. 

 
If you are attending the meeting (which is happening virtually by Zoom (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84227025876?pwd=B6xb8yGjJFbBuEhsFRTaaPnlxbMPlK.1)) or simply wish to know more about what is proposed, the following attachment offers information on the project provided by the City Council:
 
 
The Meadows to George Street proposals have generated much interest and concern in our local area. This is particularly  linked to the displacement effect of the closure to cars and commercial vehicles of a number of main arterial roads in the City Centre.
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Community Grants Funding

Post adapted from email received from City of Edinburgh Council.

Two weeks to apply for this round of Community Grants Funding

The Community Grants Funds across the city have a deadline for applications coming up. Get your applications to communitygrantsfund@edinburgh.gov.uk by 20th May to be in with a chance of securing up to £5000 for your project.

We cannot support core, ongoing costs but can consider applications from not for profit constituted groups for equipment, new activities and more. You can get all the info here.(simply choose the area where the majority benefit of your proposed activity will be).

Projects can take place from 12 months from award, so this gives you time to plan for festival activity, October or Easter breaks or an event you have coming up during this time.

Please email communitygrantsfund@edinburgh.gov.uk if you have any queries.

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NTBCC full agenda Monday 13 May 2024 and conveners’ reports received so far

This will be an online meeting via Zoom: Monday 13 May at 7pm. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84227025876?pwd=B6xb8yGjJFbBuEhsFRTaaPnlxbMPlK.1.

  1. Admin/welcome
  2. Minutes of 8th April 2024 meeting and matters arising
  3. Chair’s update
    • Edinburgh World Heritage Site Management Plan
    • Canonmills Owners And Residents Association
  4. Presentation on the Meadows to George Street TRO Engagement Stage
    Paul Matthews of AECOM and Martyn Lings from City of Edinburgh Council
  5. Transport (convener’s report)
    • Update on LEZ following meeting  with CEC Transport staff
    • Agree response to Meadows to George Street TRO
    • Status of Rose Street repairs
    • Change to Airport bus routes/future of bus station
  6. Licensing (convener’s report)
    • Supplementary Statement of Licensing Policy: ‘Overprovision’ – consultation closes 13 May 2024
    • Beltane Fire Festival on 30th April – queue management
  7. Planning (convener’s report)
    • 37 Broughton Pl, Broughton Hotel, internal and external alterations comments by 17/05 – 24/01498/FUL
    • Royal High School, conversion to music center, comments by 17/05 – 24/01804/FUL
    • Blenheim Place, new house on ‘greenfield’ site, comments by 31/05 – 24/01889/FUL
    • Note for information, the increasing number of applicants looking to install slimline double glazing
  8. Environment (convener’s report)
    • Overflowing bins in New Town
    • Communal Bin Review, Phase 5, Area A
  9. Culture and Communities (convener’s report)
    • Briefing on City of Edinburgh Council Culture and Communities Committee forthcoming meeting on 16 May
  10. Councillors’ reports
  11. Any other business, including news from local Residents’ Associations and points raised by members of public

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‘Statutory’ agenda for NTBCC meeting on Monday 13 May

The next NTBCC public meeting will be on Monday 13 May. It will be an online meeting via Zoom (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84227025876?pwd=B6xb8yGjJFbBuEhsFRTaaPnlxbMPlK.1).

We’re continuing to alternate between ‘in-person’ meetings & those held via Zoom as we believe that this best meets residents’ needs although we’d like to host hybrid meetings (in person as well as access via Zoom) but funds / facilities  currently don’t permit this option at the moment.

The detailed agenda for this meeting will be published in due course, but for now here is the ‘statutory’/framework agenda.

    1. Welcome, introductions and apologies
    2. Approval of draft minutes of April meeting
    3. Matters arising
    4. Policing matters
    5. Transport
    6. Licensing
    7. Culture & Communities
    8. Environment
    9. Engagement / Communications
    10. Planning
    11. Councillors’ reports
    12. Open Forum (for residents to raise any concerns)
    13. AOCB

This is the NTBCC standard agenda. A more detailed agenda with specific topics will be published before the meeting.

As always, members of the public are very welcome to attend this meeting and indeed future meetings (whether in-person or virtual).

Any member of the public who would like to raise an issue in the interim can use the contact form on this website or send us a message via @NTBCC on Twitter and we will respond as soon as we can.

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Community Grants Fund – Reopens for Applications

The City of Edinburgh Council Community Grants Fund has reopened for applications from eligible local groups. Small grants of up to £5,000 can be awarded. There is a total of just over £25,000 for the 2024/25 financial year available for City Centre groups. The initial deadline for applications is 20 May 2024. Further information including the application form can be found on the Council website.

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Deputation on ‘Edinburgh Tram York Place to Newhaven Project Delivery’ by Community Councils Together on Trams

Edinburgh Council’s Transport and Environment Committee will consider this report on the Trams to Newhaven project on Thursday 25 April.

To repeat a mantra, NTBCC and the other community councils in Community Councils Together on Trams believe that the project is not yet finished. The report itself notes that 69 ‘defects’ (i.e. items that are not to plan or specification) of 872 remain open.

Simply put, the report does not properly address the many concerns that NTBCC and CCTT have raised regarding the completion of the outstanding public realm work associated with the Trams Project nor provide any meaningful information about the resolution of the identified defects.

Hence CCTT is submitting the following written deputation, while NTBCC will submit a verbal deputation, to TEC on Thursday.

Here is the PDF of CCTT’s deputation. (The text and images are also below the ‘read-more’ cut.)

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