Save London Road Church campaign

LCCC unanimously supports Save London Rd Church campaign‘s aim of a community buy-out to provide amenities for the local area. Details of the campaign are on its Facebook page, but in brief, they aim to repurpose the building as a hub for the local community. Suggested uses include:

  • a meeting space
  • personal fitness (exercise classes, yoga, etc)
  • dance and sport
  • community groups (scouts, guides, brownies, knitting, cards, model railway, dolls houses
  • a home for local welfare services
  • community cinema
  • theatre, music
  • exhibiting art and crafts
  • an overnight shelter during some of the winter period for homeless people
  • a polling station for local elections

These activities all fall well within LCCC’s aims to represent and support its community, so LCCC is very happy to support this campaign.

LCCC June minutes – final version

With apologies for delay, please click to download the approved minutes for LCCC’s June 2017 meeting: 2017_06_19 final.

Delay was due to

  1. The draft minutes could not be approved until LCCC met in August. (In common with many CCs, LCCC does not meet in July.)
  2. LCCC’s minutes secretary and web-weaver was unavailable for some of August and September due to personal and work commitments.

Leith Programme Stakeholder Update 109: Phase 4 (Iona Street to Brunswick Street)

(adapted from an email sent by Michael Motion of Turner & Townsend at 14:51 on 8 September. )

Dear Stakeholder

Our contractor, Crummock, returned to site as of Monday 4th September to remobilise for the completion of the Phase 4 scope of works. At that time, Brunswick Road was closed to accommodate the site compound, and will remain so until the works are completed. Iona Street was also closed to allow commencement of works to realign the kerb line, commence the road surfacing works including the raised table construction and to complete the pavement slabbing. It is likely this will take up to 3 weeks to complete, during which time Iona Street will remain closed.

In addition to the above, we are also working in the following areas:

  • Brunswick Street junction to complete the remain footpath slabbing to the S/E corner
  • Croall Place to complete the remaining Scottish Water rectification works, and to resolve surface water drainage issues
  • 2 nr road crossings on Leith Walk, north and south of Albert Street.

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School Food and Feeding the Mind

(adapted from an email from ‘Holyrood Policy’)

School Food and Feeding the Mind: Opportunity, Encouragement and Education

Edinburgh | Tue 12 September 2017 | 10.00 – 15.00

As the holidays finish and the new school term begins, the subject of school
food is very much back on the menu.

Holyrood’s School Food and Feeding the Mind event will provide a timely
platform for debate and discussion around the importance and priorities of
school food provision and the wider impact of food education. Continue reading →