£100,000 Litter & Flytipping Community Action Fund – applications invited

(adapted from an email from Zero Waste Scotland)

Zero Waste Scotland has launched a new £100,000 fund, which Keep Scotland Beautiful is administering, to enable community groups to apply for funding to help them tackle the litter and flytipping in their own neighbourhoods.

The proposed objectives of the Fund are to:

  • support community-led activity to tackle litter and flytipping and increase recycling on the go in Scotland;
  • promote and encourage increased community ownership of local environmental quality issues;
  • impact on current litter and flytipping levels within communities,  raise awareness and stimulate public behavioural change; and
  • promote partnership working between local communities, local authorities and other agencies.

 

Examples of the types of projects that will be considered are:

  • community clean-ups and prevention initiatives;
  • localised awareness raising and behaviour change campaigns to reduce some of Scotland’s most commonly littered and flytipped items;
  • adopt-a-street projects;
  • creating deterrents to litter and flytipping;
  • raising awareness of penalties.

You can view more about the Fund and how to apply online here

The closing date for applications is 19 September 2014.

 (sent by)

Keep Scotland Beautiful, First Floor, Glendevon House, The Castle Business Park, Stirling, FK9 4TZ
t: 01786 471333(switchboard) f: 01786 464611 e: info@keepscotlandbeautiful.org w: www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org

Online communication about planning: feedback wanted

(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)

Edinburgh Council’s Planning & Building Standards department is undertaking a short survey to get feedback on their online communications. Details of the survey can be found on the Planning Edinburgh blog. The survey shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to complete. You can also take the opportunity to sign up to their blog. Please feel free to share the survey.

[sent by]

Damian McAfee I Principal Practitioner I Planning Delivery I Planning & Building Standards I Services for Communities I The City of Edinburgh Council l Business Centre G3 I Waverley Court I 4 East Market Street I Edinburgh I EH8 8BG I t. 0131 469 3720 I damian.mcafee@edinburgh.gov.uk I www.edinburgh.gov.uk

Latest Planning updates http://twitter.com/planningedin and http://planningedinburgh.com/

August LCCC meeting minutes – draft

Please note these are draft minutes, for information only. They have not (yet) been adopted by LCCC.

Click to download: 2014_08_18 draft

Topics discussed included

  • 34b Haddington Place
  • Leith Central CC’s online communication – website comments and Tweeting
  • Shrubhill and Shrub Place sites
  • Leith Walk repairs and improvements
  • Pilrig Park
  • Edinburgh Local Development Plan
  • potential HMO at 9 Pilrig Street

Street design – consultation ends soon

(Adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)

This is a reminder that Edinburgh Council has added additional information to its web site about the detailed design of streets. It would like your views on this information. This consultation will run until 31st August 2014.

You can read the documents on the Council’s web site at http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/streetdesign and you can e-mail comments directly to streetdesign@edinburgh.gov.uk.

You can follow progress on the consultation on Twitter at http://twitter.com/planningedin

Edinburgh Street Design I Services for Communities I City of Edinburgh Council I Waverley Court I 4 East Market Street I Edinburgh EH8 8BG I street.design@edinburgh.gov.uk I www.edinburgh.gov.uk/streetdesign