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.
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Four NTBCC Community Councillors and two members of the public undertook a planned walk along certain streets of the First New Town following the route shown in the map below on Monday 28 October 2024.
We identified a number of issues worthy of note and further action including:
The following photographs give an indication of what we saw but the attached report (Notes from NTBCC Walkabout (FNT)) provides details and more photographs of what we found and the areas where we believe further follow up is required. This report has been shared with our local Councillors and others.
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
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.
The New Town and Broughton Community Council has submitted a deputation to today’s meeting of the City of Edinburgh Council to highlight a number of continuing issues with the operation of the new Low Emission Zone. In particular, we are concerned at the lack of adequate monitoring of displaced traffic and atmospheric pollution on residential streets on the periphery of the LEZ boundary. The full deputation can be found here.
As you will no doubt be aware the industrial action planned to start today affecting waste and cleaning services in Edinburgh has been suspended pending the outcome of a nation-wide vote by union members. All waste collection and cleaning services will therefore continue to run as normal including recycling centres. Further information can be found on the Council’s website.
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.”
Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s ordinary meeting, on Zoom, on Monday 11 December 2023 at 7pm
Actions and decisions are red italic. ND (‘no dissent’) means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision.
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