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Kerbside recycling

Calendars for the red and blue box collections are going online this year. Calendars have been posted only to those with assisted collections this week.

In recognition of the fact that more people have access to the web, and to help drive down the amount of paper and costs involved with distributing more than 140,000 calendars each year, we currently only offer the refuse, garden and food waste calendar online, and the new red and blue box calendar is now online too.  In addition, we offer a link on our website to Green Box Day so that residents can get reminders of their next collection for garden waste and red and blue boxes.

We continue to send out calendars to those residents that received help with their collections (called an assisted collection) and anyone who still wishes to have a paper copy of the calendar, can contact us either by email or by calling 0131 529 3030.

There is a directory for the red and blue boxes here: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/redandblueboxdays, which lists the collection dates, and there will be a calendar linked to this that residents can download by Wednesday next week.

Draft minutes of LCCC meeting on 17 March 2014

Here are the draft minutes of LCCC’s March Meeting: 2014_03_17 draft

Matters discussed include

  • Edinburgh Planning Concordat
  • local development plan
  • police anti-housebreaking measures
  • Cockburn Association
  • Leith Walk repairs and improvements
  • Leith Business Improvement District
  • Leith Walk trade waste pilot scheme

Antisocial Behaviour Draft Policy Framework Consultation – CLOSES 17 APRIL 2014

A draft Antisocial Behaviour Policy has been developed to help inform all key stakeholders, in particular tenants of the City of Edinburgh Council, their household members and their visitors, of the Council’s objectives and approach to tackling ASB. We hope by providing a clear policy residents and communities can be assured that we, as a Council, are committed to taking a proportionate but strict approach to ASB, which places residents subjected to inappropriate behaviour at the heart of the process.

A clear aim of the policy is to set out the Council’s approach to the prevention and management of ASB that can often blight the lives and wellbeing of residents. It promotes the message that help and support are available where needed to assist people in changing their behaviour, however where this is not effective, and serious and persistent ASB continues, robust action will be taken.

The policy has emerged from key pieces of work including the ASB Strategy 2013 – 2016, ASB Review Group and feedback received from the Policy Development Sub Committee on the 10th September 2013.

Consultation on the policy is being carried out from the week from the 26 March 2014 over a three week period closing on the 17 April 2014. Feedback from the consultation will be incorporated into a final policy to be submitted to the Health, Social Care and Housing Committee in June 2014 for approval.

If you would like to comment on the draft ASB Policy Framework, please read the draft policy (attached or on the council website), then follow this link to respond via Survey Monkey.

 

Edinburgh Roadworks Ahead Agreement 2014

With thanks to Cllr Nick Gardner for forwarding this and highlighting the key points…

From the summary:

This report outlines improvement proposals to assist Road Services with executing its powers under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 in managing, co-ordinating and effectively controlling road occupations, particularly by Public Utilities (PUs).

The proposal is to re-vitalise and re-launch the Edinburgh Roadworks Ahead Agreement (ERWAA) with greater emphasis on customer needs and remove aspects of the previous agreement that proved to be ineffective.

The report proposes a way forward in partnership with PUs to deliver improved performance.

Included in the agreement are new initiatives to address issues of frustration regarding roadworks that are reported to the Council by both pedestrians and road users. Examples of these initiatives include:

  • moving any temporary traffic lights when they are not required to allow two way traffic to flow, specifically at weekends where work has paused; and
  • placing additional information signs at sites that require to be vacated for a period of time.

Click the graphic to download the PDF:

ERWAA 2014