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.
URLs have been added by the minutes secretary.
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These minutes could not be published until they had been approved at the following ordinary meeting in February 2025.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
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.
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.
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.
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.
| 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 |
(based on this original PDF)
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
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.
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.