Agenda for May NTBCC Meeting

The next meeting of the New Town and Broughton Community Council will take place on Monday 12 May 2025, starting at 7.00pm. This meeting will be held online on Zoom. The link for this meeting is as follows:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87849508345?pwd=qWIte18bCUReZjaf8SgGMFf1Ay6RzN.1

The agenda for the meeting is:

  1. Welcome and Apologies
  2. Declarations of Interest
  3. Approval of Minutes of April 2025 Meeting and Matters Arising 2025_04_14 draft V4 copy
  4. Chair’s Report
    1. Edinburgh World Heritage Trust (to note)
    2. Community Council Election and Induction Issues (to note/discuss)
    3. Community Councillor Interests Survey (to note)
    4. Arrangements for Business Meeting (to note)
  5. Culture and Communities Matters
    1. Dunard Centre Project Update – Jo Buckley, Chief Executive, IMPACT Scotland
    2. Culture & Communities Committee Meeting – 5 June 2025 (to note)
    3. Appointment of Edinburgh Visitor Levy Forum Chairperson (to note)
    4. Calton Hill Conservation Trust AGM – 17 May 2025 (to note)
    5. Friends of George V Park AGM (to note)
  6. Planning Matters
    1. Planning Local Review Body Decision – 12 Blenheim Place (to note/discuss)
    2. Revised application & Variations for the former RBS site (to note/discuss)
    3. Request for Pre-Application Meeting by Royal London (to discuss)
    4. Recent Planning Applications & Appeals (to note/discuss)
  7. Transport and Environment Matters (convener’s report
    1. Communal Bin Review Phase 6 Consultation Update (to note/discuss)
    2. TRO Subcommittee Meeting – Review of ETRO Objections (to note/discuss)
    3. City Mobility Plan Capital Investment Plan (to note/discuss)
  8. Licencing Matters  (convener’s report)
    1. Regulatory – STL Licensing & Aparthotels (to note)
    2. Licensing Board – Report of Meeting of 28 April 2025 (to note)
    3. Licensing Board – Supplementary Statement of Policy on Overprovision (to note)
  1. Any Other Business
    1. Napier University Engagement Project (to note)
    2. Councillor Jule Bandel Absence (to note)

NTBCC ordinary meeting minutes 10 March 2025

Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held via Zoom, on Monday 10 March 2025 at 7pm

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NTBCC ordinary meeting minutes 17 February 2025

Notes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held via Zoom, on Monday 17 February 2025 at 7pm

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NTBCC ordinary meeting minutes 9 December 2024

Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, on Monday 9 December 2024 at 7pm

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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)

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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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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.