(copied from a post on Leith Links CC’s website)
Communities across Edinburgh are being urged to submit their applications to the City of Edinburgh Council for a Waste Action Grant as the deadline fast approaches. Grants are available to fund eco-friendly projects that will encourage more people in the Capital to reduce, reuse and recycle.
There is a campaign to save Duncan Place resource centre, specifically for an option to provide ‘a new school gym and nursery and a refurbishment of the ground floor of DPRC
to provide council run community services’.
Leith Links CC invites those who wish to contribute to this campaign to email their Councillors, MSP and other representatives – the vote is tomorrow morning.
For further details, see Leith Links CC’s blog post.
(adapted from an email from Friends of Pilrig park)
The Friends of Pilrig Park will be holding a Public Meeting along with our AGM on Monday 12th October from 6.30-8.00pm at the Nelson Hall in McDonald Road Library.
If you can spare the time please do come along and share your thoughts and ideas about the park. If you can’t make it along on the evening but have some ideas regarding park improvements please email them through by Friday 9th October. Click the links for the minutes from the last meeting, an agenda for the AGM and a poster about the AGM. Continue reading
(with thanks to the cyclist who persevered and Greener Leith for publishing her findings)
A regular cyclist on Leith Walk decided to investigate what the actual rules are around double parking in the new advisory cycle lanes on Leith Walk. The responses she got are not reassuring.
Apparently, parking in cycle lanes marked off by solid lines is illegal. Cycle lanes marked off by broken lanes are advisory – driving, stopping and parking is not illegal. Just guess which sort of line Leith Walk’s new cycle lanes have. As the cyclist who reported her investigation put it, Edinburgh Council ‘has invested a fair amount of money into a second parking lane marked in pretty red with a couple of cycles painted onto it.’
See the full report on Greener Leith’s website.
Edinburgh Eco Fair is coming to Out of the Blue Drill Hall on Sunday 4th October and will be a wonderful celebration of green companies and services from the Edinburgh area. There will be stalls of planet-friendly gifts, treats and food as well as crafts for kids and musical interludes. You’ll also be able to chat to the groups who are working to create a more sustainable future for our communities.
Leith Central Community Council 