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Leith Central CC draft minutes, 18 November 2013

Here are draft minutes from the meeting of 18 November: 2013_11_18 draft

Topics discussed include:

  • Planning work
    • McDonald Road/Broughton Primary School
    • Brunswick Road
  • ‘bedroom tax’, discretionary housing payment fund, Scottish welfare fund
  • Leith Walk repairs
  • Grants from Leith Neighbourhood Partnership
  • Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy
  • Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill

Traffic order: waiting restrictions, car club and disabled parking places

Edinburgh Council has released advance notice of a Traffic Order that will amend some waiting restrictions, car club parking places and disabled parking places. Overall, there seems to be very minor impact on the LCCC area.

The items within Leith Central CC’s area are

  • Abbey Street: Introduce 24 hour waiting restrictions to maintain access and the line of sight between motorist and pedestrians. (This might be just outside LCCC’s area.)
  • Albion Road/Albion Place: Introduce 24 hour waiting restrictions to maintain access and the line of sight between motorist and pedestrians.
  • Changes to disabled parking places in Waverley Place, Cambridge Gardens and Pitt Street.

Details are in bold on this Word document.

Outside LCCC’s area, the items with the most potential affect on LCCC’s area is

  • York Place: Extend loading/unloading prohibitions to allow buses to turn eastward in to York Place from Elder Street. (Drawing – PDF)

Very local Policing Plans

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Hot on the trail of the post below, here’s more information on how Police Scotland are working in Leith.

The Leith Walk Multi Member Ward Plan2013 lists local policing priorities identified by Leith citizens, and shows how these are being tackled. The priorities are:

  1. Antisocial behaviour
  2. Drugs and alcohol
  3. Housebreaking and theft
  4. Assault and violent crime

For up-to-date information on the policing team, the area covered and some contact details, visit the Police Scotland Leith Walk page.