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Review of Transport Regulation Orders Sub-Committee – NTBCC Deputation

Also on the agenda for the Transport and Environment Committee (TEC) meeting today was a report concerning the Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO) Sub-Committee. This sub-committee was established about a year ago to handle the statutory elements of Traffic Regulation Orders. Over the last year, the sub-committee has considered a number of matters affecting our area. Unlike most committees, Community Councils are not able to comment upon the reports under consideration by the sub-committee. Local ward Councillors are also barred from making any representations to the sub-committee. As a result, we have been very frustrated that decisions have been made without all the facts being available. We therefore decided to make a verbal deputation to the TEC meeting to highlight these concerns and seek the opportunity to provide feedback. You can view what we said on the Council’s webcast site from tomorrow but attached is the text of our submission.

Verbal Deputation to TEC (Review of TRO Sub-Committee) 

Although the remit of a Council committee may sound very dull and not worth our attention, the current situation denies us and the public the opportunity to properly engage in decisions affecting the roads in our area. When Community Councils were established they were intended to improve engagement between Councils and the community. If we cannot speak on your behalf, we cannot fulfil the function for which we were established.

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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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NTBCC Submits Objection to Experimental Traffic Regulation Order

The New Town and Broughton Community Council has submitted the following objection to ETRO 21/28A and in particular the continuation of the changes introduced on London Road in 2020 under the Spaces for People initiative during the pandemic.

Should you wish to object to or indeed support the ETRO, you should write to the Traffic Orders team using the contact information provided on the Council website. Please note the closing date for comments and/or objections is Monday 28 October 2024. 

The New Town and Broughton Community Council objects to the Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (21/28A) and in particular the changes introduced on London Road between its junctions with Easter Road and Blenheim Place. In summary, the NTBCC considers that the temporary cycle path does not meet its objectives to enhance safety for cyclists, has a number of adverse consequences for traffic management in adjoining streets and does not meet the expected standards of public realm in the World Heritage Site.

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NTBCC ordinary meeting minutes 11 March 2024

Minutes of New Town & Broughton Community Council’s meeting, via Zoom, on Monday 11 March 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 Administration and welcome

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NTBCC full agenda Monday 11 March 2024 and conveners’ reports received so far

This will be an online meeting on Monday 11 March at 7pm, via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2776483882?pwd=WkdwZWxuWWhDV2Y3eVhXZTQyS2ZwUT09)

  1. Admin/welcome
  2. Minutes of 12th February 2024 meeting and matters arising
  3. Chair’s update
  4. Planning (convener’s report)
  5. Licensing (convener’s report)
    • Planning Section 50 Certificates – Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005
    • Outdoor area for serving alcohol – licensed footprint vs tables & chairs permit
  6. Transport (convener’s report)
    • Feedback from Transport & Environment Committee on 7 March 2024
      • Cllr Mowat’s motion: CCWEL (City Centre West to East Link) project
      • Change in proposal for determining Traffic Orders
  7. Environment (convener’s report)
  8. Culture and Communities (convener’s report)
    • Reopening of the Nelson Monument (to note)
    • Signage for buskers (to note)
    • Fireworks control zones (FCZ) (to note)
    • Events budgeting (to note)
    • Parks and openspace investment (to note)
    • Million tree city/allergens (to note)
  9. AOCB, including news from residents’ associations, and points raised by members of the public.

Please note: before or during the meeting, names and email addresses may be recorded. Email addresses are held and used for circulating information about NTBCC but may also be used to seek residents’ views on local issues.
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