RSPB in Pilrig Park – Monday!

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This coming Monday (18th July) the RSPB will be at Pilrig Park running lots of activities for you to get involved in – from minibeast hunts to bird watching, nature’s colours and lots of other fun activities. This is to celebrate Love Parks Week, celebrating how great our local green spaces are. We will also be making homes for nature in a craft activity. Come and explore your local park and find all the creepy crawlies that live within it!

Where: Pilrig Park, Edinburgh

When: We will be there from 10am until 3pm on Monday 18th July

What to bring: Stout footwear and maybe a raincoat!

Get involved! Community Council elections in Autumn 2016

This could be your opportunity to join a thriving group of local representatives and have a direct influence on local matters.

There are elections for all Edinburgh community councils this autumn. All current members will stand down – they are of course eligible for re-election.

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Stakeholder Update 83 – Leith Programme Phase 4 (Pilrig Street to McDonald Road)

(adapted from an email sent by Alan Dean, Partnership Development Officer, sent on 2016_07_05 at 10:05)

Anticipated timescales

We would like to let you know that we are on course to commence the next phase of the Leith Programme works this Summer as previously reported in our last stakeholder update. Following the Council’s approving of the making of the Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) and Redetermination Order (RSO) at the Transport and Environment Committee of 7th June 2016, the team have been working hard to complete the procurement process to appoint the contractor for the forthcoming section of works and we are confident that work will start in late August/early September. Once we have selected the successful contractor we will, of course, share this with you and will carry out a large scale letter drop over the wider area to ensure people are kept fully informed. It is anticipated that the works will take around 10 months to complete. Continue reading →