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
(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)
In response to feedback from community councillors a Development and Support programme has been established. To date two sessions on Neighbourhood Partnerships and Community Engagement have been held and well received by the community councillors attending. The other sessions are listed below.
To book a place on any of these sessions, please email Julie Dickson (julie.dickson@edinburgh.gov.uk) or telephone 0131-469 5393. Please let her know if you require any assistance to attend or take part e.g. large print, disabled access requirements, travel arrangements, hearing loop etc.
Leith Central CC suggests that these sessions would be beneficial to aspiring LCCC members. Any such people should contact LCCC’s secretary at secretary.lccc@leithcentralcc.co.uk.
On Wednesday 16 September, around 80 community council members met in Glasgow to talk about how CCs could contribute to the Scottish Government’s Fairer Scotland initiative. The following are personal accounts and comments on this event from Leith Central CC’s web weaver (Bruce Ryan).
They do not represent Leith Central CC’s position on any matter but are reproduced here simply to inform readers about actions the SG and the Improvement Service are undertaking to help CCs live up to their roles (and to provide some constructive criticism of these actions).
(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council’s Parks and Greenspace Service)
The Parks and Greenspace Service (P&GSS) is carrying out a review of the management of a small selection of the events held in Edinburgh’s public parks in 2014-15 and would like to hear your views and comments. P&GSS will use the information you give to identify specific issues and problems, seek solutions and implement any appropriate suggestions in time for next year’s programme. The review will close on Thursday 1st October 2015.
Leith Central Community Council 