Edinburgh Council

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Communal Bin Review – Report to Transport and Environment Committee

The CEC Transport and Environment Committee will be considering a report at their meeting on 26 June 2025 which sets out the recommended waste collection service for the streets in the Phase 6 area of the Communal Bin Review. This area includes most of the New Town.  Appendix 2 of the report sets out the latest recommendations for each street.

The New Town and Broughton Community Council has submitted a written deputation and will be making a verbal deputation to the meeting.

While welcoming the decision to retain a kerbside collection service using gull proof sacks for most of the streets that have that service currently, the deputation highlights concerns with the consultation process and the lack of adequate engagement with residents where the service is changing. A number of street associations have submitted their own deputations highlighting the impact on their residents.

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NTBCC Monthly Meeting Agenda Published

New Town and Broughton Community Council Ordinary Meeting – Monday 9 June 2025

This meeting will be an in-person meeting held in the Drummond Room at Broughton St. Mary’s Church at Bellevue Crescent and will follow immediately after the Annual General Meeting which will start at 7.00pm.  The agenda for this meeting is shown below. The minutes of our May 2025 meeting and any committee reports will be added before the meeting.

Agenda

  1. Welcome and Apologies
  2. Declarations of Interest
  3. Approval of Minutes of May 2025 Meeting and Matters Arising
  4. Police Report
  5. Chair’s Report
  6. Planning Matters
    1. Planning Local Review Body Decision – 12 Blenheim Place (to discuss)
    2. Royal London pre-consultations (Thistle St. / Henderson Row) (to note)
    3. Former RBS site – Dundas St. – new application lodged (25/01899/FUL) (to discuss)
    4. Overview of tools to access planning information (to note)
    5. Recent Planning Applications & Appeals (to note/discuss)
  7. Licencing Matters
    1. Recent Licencing Applications (to note/discuss)
  8. Culture and Communities Matters
    1. Report of C&C Committee Meeting held on 5 June 2025 (to note)
  9. Transport and Environment Matters
    1. Communal Bin Review Phase 6 Consultation Update (to note/discuss)
    2. City Mobility Plan Capital Investment Plan – NTBCC Deputation (to note)
    3. Cycle Hire Scheme (to note)
    4. Trams to Newhaven – Issues List and Actions (to note)
    5. Edinburgh Bus Users Group AGM (to note)
    6. Clean Air Day (to discuss/note)
  10. Any Other Business

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NTBCC submits formal complaint regarding handling of planning application

The New Town and Broughton Community Council has submitted a formal complaint to the City of Edinburgh Council regarding its handling of a planning application for the development of a site on Blenheim Place. This complaint was submitted on 30 April 2025 but to date no response has been provided. The following is a summary of that complaint but the full document is attached for your reference.

 Summary of Complaint to the City of Edinburgh Council: Planning Local Review Body (Panel 1), 2 April 2025, Item 6.1

 The Planning Local Review Body (LRB Panel 1) met on 2 April to consider Item 6.1 entitled: 12 Blenheim Place (At Land 45 Metres East Of) – Erection of new 5-bedroom family home on land between Greenside Parish Church and No. 12 Blenheim Place Application no. 24/01889/FUL.

This was a section 43 appeal against refusal of planning permission on 28 October 2024. The appeal was lodged by Scott Hobbs Planning on behalf of CSG Projects Limited on 24 January 2025.

On 30 April, the New Town & Broughton Community Council made a formal complaint to the City of Edinburgh Council concerning serious procedural failures, apparent bias, and lack of adherence to statutory requirements by the Planning Local Review Body (Panel 1) during the review on 2 April 2025. The complaint was based upon a careful examination by community councillors of the webcast of the relevant part of the meeting. Continue reading →

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NTBCC raises significant concerns about Council plans to make experimental traffic regulation orders permanent

We have been advised that the Council will be seeking approval from the Traffic Regulation Orders Sub-Committee at their meeting tomorrow (12 May 2025) to make the measures initially introduced during the pandemic and then continued under two Experimental Traffic Regulation Orders (ETRO 21/26A and 21/28A) permanent. This will require the sub-committee to set aside the objections that have been submitted including those submitted by NTBCC.

Our objections focussed on two aspects of these ETRO  – the relocation of buses from Waverley Bridge and the cycle path along London Road. We believe that the issues we raised have not been properly addressed in the report that will be considered by the subcommittee and that the specific measures we have highlighted in our objections should not be made permanent.

Unlike other Council committees, the community council are not allowed to make a deputation to the sub-committee. We have therefore circulated the attached document to our local Councillors so that they may be able to communicate our concerns about the report to their colleagues.

We urge the Council to look again at these two aspects of the ETRO and ensure that the views of the NTBCC and others who have raised concerns about these measures are properly considered.

 

Mike Birch

Transport and Environment Convener – NTBCC

11 May 2025

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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)
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Agenda for Meeting of New Town and Broughton Community Council on 14 April 2025

The agenda for the next meeting of the New Town and Broughton Community Council on Monday 14 April 2025 at the Drummond Room, Broughton St Mary’s Church on Bellevue Crescent is shown below. Please note that this meeting will commence earlier than usual at 6.45pm to allow time for our Returning Officer, Councillor Claire Miller to announce the results of the recent community council election for our area and confirm the appointment of Office Bearers.

Agenda for New Town and Broughton Community Council Meeting – 14 April 2025

  1. Welcome, Introductions and Apologies
  2. Declarations of Interest
  3. Announcing Community Council Members as duly elected
  4. Confirmation of Community Council Name
  5. Election of Office Bearers
    1. Appointment of Chair
    2. Appointment of Secretary
    3. Appointment of Treasurer
    4. Appointment of Engagement and Inclusion Officer
  6. Community Council Representatives to attend induction event on 26 April 2025.

Note: The above items will be chaired by the appointed Returning Officer for the New Town and Broughton Community Council election, Councillor Claire Miller.

  1. Approval of Minutes of 10 March 2025 Meeting and Matters Arising
  2. Presentation with Questions & Answers by Councillor Stephen Jenkinson, Convenor of CEC Transport and Environment Committee
  3. Chair’s Report
    1. Edinburgh World Heritage Trust and Interface Group Meetings (to note)
  4. Planning Matters
    1. Planning Guidance Consultation – NTBCC Response (to note)
    2. Planning Local Review Body Decision – 12 Blenheim Place (to discuss)
    3. Recent Planning Applications
  5. Licencing Matters (convener’s report)
    1. Licensing Board
      1. Licensing Applications & Standards – Feb 2025 statistics (to note)
      2. Overprovision – additional consultation (to note/discuss)
    2. Civic Licensing + Tables & Chairs (to note)
    3. Beltane Fire Festival – Queue Management (to note/discuss)
  6. Transport and Environment Matters (convenor’s report)
    1. Communal Bin Review Phase 6 Consultation – NTBCC Response (to note)
    2. Trams to Newhaven Project Update (to note)
  7. Culture and Communities Matters
  8. Any Other Business

 

 

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The Big Wheel in Princes Gardens – A Decision!

We have recently received an email from the Council following the representations that we and others had made regarding the extended operating period that had been proposed for The Big Wheel in Princes Gardens. The following is an extract from that email.

Thank you for responding and providing feedback on the application to host a Big Wheel in East Princes Street Gardens this summer.

The engagement stage of the process has now closed and having considered feedback from all our internal and external stakeholders, we have agreed that this application should not proceed.

Please share this information with your own networks as required.

Clearly it  shows that at least on some occasions, it is worth providing timely comments. Thanks to everyone that did so.