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Communal Bin Review – Phase 6 Consultation

The City of Edinburgh Council is currently undertaking a consultation exercise as part of their plans to introduce new waste and recycling arrangements within the New Town and some adjacent areas. This is described as being Phase 6 of the Communal Bin Review that started in 2021.

As part of their communications, the Council has written to all residents on the streets included in the current Phase. They have also held three drop-in sessions to allow residents to ask questions about the new arrangements. There is another drop in session underway this afternoon at Palmerston Place Church and two further ones planned at Stockbridge Library and The Dean Church on 7 and 10 March, respectively.

Further information about the consultation can be found in the attached email. You can also find more information on the Council’s website. 

We will be discussing this topic at our next monthly meeting on Monday 10 March which will be held online using Zoom. The agenda and link to the Zoom meeting can be found on our website.

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Princes Street and Waverley Valley Strategy – Cancellation of Drop-In Event Tomorrow!

The following information is taken from an email received this afternoon from the Sustainable Development Team at the City of Edinburgh Council. 

We are extremely sorry but due to unforeseen circumstances with staff illness we have to cancel the public drop-in event on Thursday 16 January 2025 at the Central Library, which we had planned to run from 10-2pm.

Please accept our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Please see below details of our other public drop-in events:

  • Waverley Station concourse, 29 January, 3pm to 7pm
  • City Arts Centre, 3 February 1pm to 5pm

The consultation survey is accessed here and details of the strategy are accessed here.

 

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Visitor Levy Consultation

The following post is adapted from an email received from City of Edinburgh Council regarding the ongoing consultation about the visitor levy.

We are writing to invite residents to fill out our consultation on a Visitor Levy for Edinburgh, which is now open until Sunday 15 December at edinburgh.gov.uk/visitorlevy.

We are planning to introduce a visitor levy on paid, overnight stays in the city. We have written a draft scheme using feedback from visitors, residents and businesses. Now we’re seeking your views to help shape the final version, which will be in place from July 2026.

We have also arranged a drop-in event which is open to the public at Waverley Station on Thursday 14 November between 15.00 and 19.00.

We would be grateful if you could spread the word about this throughout your communities. The flyer below contains further information on the consultation, as well as our Council webpages on the Visitor Levy. 

Visitor Levy for Edinburgh_flyer

 

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‘Statutory’ agenda for NTBCC meeting on Monday 11 November 2024

The next NTBCC public meeting will held be on Monday 11 November, 7pm to 9pm. It will be an online meeting, via Zoom:  We will open the meeting around 6:45pm.

 

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

Ordinary meeting

    1. Welcome, introductions and apologies
    2. Approval of minutes of October NTBCC meeting
    3. Matters arising
    4. Planning
    5. Culture & Communities
    6. Licensing
    7. Transport & Environment
    8. Councillors’ reports
    9. Open forum (for residents to raise any concerns)
    10. AOCB

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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Industrial action

Adapted from an email received from City of Edinburgh Council. 

“You may already be aware that members of Unite and GMB trades unions are planning strike action in Edinburgh from 5am on 14 August until 4.59am on 22 August. If the strike goes ahead, we are expecting this to cause significant disruption to bin collections, street cleansing services, recycling centres and public toilets during this time.

We’ve created dedicated web pages with information and advice for residents, businesses and visitors about the strike, how it will affect people and how to manage waste safely and responsibly during this time.

During the strike we are anticipating that there will be no bin collections or street cleaning services recycling centres will be closed. Our fly-tipping and special uplift services will be suspended. Public toilets will be closed.

Trade waste collections will not be affected as this is not a service the Council provides for businesses.”


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Preview & Agenda – NTBCC meeting 10th October 2022

Following our delayed September NTBCC meeting which was back as an in-person event in our normal location in the Drummond Room at Broughton St Mary’s ; given the short period between the delayed September meeting and the scheduled October meeting – this meeting will revert to Zoom.

We were not sure that there would be sufficient topics of interest to justify another meeting 2 weeks after the September meeting, but that concern was ill-founded.

Although there MAY not be any external presenters (as Lothian Buses’ attendance is still to be confirmed) – there are still a number of important issues that have been highlighted by residents that are worthy of further discussion.

The main agenda items are the now-published option for the Picardy Place island following the recent stakeholder discussion and the latest on the George Street & First New Town (GFNT) project – both of which are on the Council’s Transport & Environment Committee agenda on 6th October (unless it is adjourned similar to the Culture & Communities Committee meeting on 4th October).

The full agenda for the October NTBCC meeting will be published soon on our website, https://www.ntbcc.org.uk/meetings/ or a .pdf can be viewed here.

We look forward to as many residents as possible joining us for this as well as local councillors – whose recent attendance has been exemplary.

For anyone interested in attending – please register as usual via Eventbrite here.

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Next NTBCC meeting – 11 October 2021 : Registration Details & Summary of Discussion Items

The New Town & Broughton Community Council monthly meeting will be on Monday 11 October 2021 at 7:00pm.

We’re continuing for now with an online event as we’re unaware of any changes to either Edinburgh Council or Scottish Government guidance, the community council feels that it’s still appropriate that this meeting will again be held by video conference, using the Zoom platform. However, along with other coommunity councils, we are looking at options that may allow either 100% in-person meetings or a hybrid model (some attending in person but also with a remote link) but don’t expect this until 2022.

We look forward to as many residents as possible from the New Town & Broughton Community Council area joining us for this.

If interested – please register via Eventbrite here 

The full agenda for these meetings will be posted on our website, https://www.ntbcc.org.uk/meetings/ when available but a precis of discussion topics is shown below.

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