Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held in Broughton’s St Mary’s Church, on Monday 14 November 2022 at 7pm Continue reading
East Princes St Gardens
NTBCC meeting minutes 10 October 2022
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held via Zoom, on Monday 10 October 2022 at 7pm
Actions and decisions are red italic. ND (‘no dissent’) means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision. Continue reading
Edinburgh Christmas Market Application for 2022 – 2026 : NTBCC Response
The New Town & Broughton Community Council (NTBCC) submitted a representation to the recent application for the Edinburgh Christmas Market in East Princes Street gardens (22/04917/FUL).
The application as submitted covered temporary use of the public gardens for rides /attractions (including the big wheel /carousels / fun flyer / techno base) as well as food /craft concession stalls and other supporting facilities.
The application requested permission for a temporary but recurring period of 5 years, i.e. until Christmas 2026.
The planning application is due to be considered at the Council’s Development Management Sub-Committee on 9th November. It is currently recommended for approval despite several points raised by those commenting being defined as ‘non-material’ and hence not taken into account as part of the determination.
The community council is fully aware of the significant challenges in delivering this year’s Christmas Market – primarily due to the apparent failed procurement exercise with Angel Events which has resulted in a very late change for the organisation of the event (although we would note that the full details of this are not yet available to the wider public).
Therefore, it would seem appropriate if the issues that resulted in Angel Events withdrawing from the contract could be reviewed as soon as possible given the historic and ongoing controversy with the Winter Festival process. We would support the setting up of an independent review to look at the apparent failure of the procurement process as this is essential for both the public and elected Councillors to better understand the issues behind this and to provide necessary insight to determine an appropriate way forward for any future Winter Festivals beyond 2022.
NTBCC, in common with others (including the recent submission from the Council’s Parks & Greenspaces), also strongly support that given the current circumstances, any approval should be for one year only (being 2022/23) and not for the duration as currently requested. This would allow a more in-depth discussion in early 2023 between the new provider, key stakeholders and the Council to develop and agree a sensible and supportable site plan and operating strategy for subsequent years.
That said, we do acknowledge the challenges that the newly-formed operator / provider (Unique Assembly) face in attempting to bring forward a very late planning application for this event. It is unfortunate despite various consultations carried out by Edinburgh Council that this process seems ‘very last minute’; such that responders may be conflicted in providing unsupportive comments to what has been proposed, as they would not want to prevent some form of Christmas activity to take place but may be supportive, in principle, of appropriate and well-defined temporary facilities to support an Edinburgh Christmas event, whilst having some misgivings as to the detail of the current application.
NTBCC AGM minutes 13 June 2022
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s annual general meeting, held at Broughton St Mary’s church (some attendance via Zoom), on Monday 13 June 2022 at 7pm
Actions and decisions are red italic. ND (‘no dissent’) means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision.
Items 1 to 5 and item 7 were chaired by Carol Nimmo. Item 6 was chaired by Bruce Ryan. Continue reading
NTBCC minutes Monday 12 October 2021
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, held via Zoom, on Monday 12 October 2020 at 7pm
NTBCC meeting agenda – Monday 11 October
Agenda for online meeting: 6:45pm for 7.00pm start
We very much welcome members of the public joining the meeting (using the Zoom platform).
Registration will be via Eventbrite – please click link below
Log-in details/Zoom link will then be emailed to all those who have registered.
Anyone who wants to raise an issue for discussion can do so either by submitting a Contact Us form or send a message via Twitter @NTBCC. Continue reading
NTBCC minutes – Monday 14 September 2020
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s public meeting, held via Zoom, on Monday 14 September 2020 at 7pm
Actions and decisions are red italic. ND (‘no dissent’) means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision. Continue reading