Tag Archives: Edinburgh Council

Parking on cycle-lanes – the inconvenient (legal) truth

(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.

September LCCC meeting minutes DRAFT

Click to download: 2015_09_21 draft

Please note that these are draft minutes and so may well change when considered at the next meeting. If there are any queries, please contact LCCC – see our contacts page.

Topics discussed included

  • (lack of) Police monthly report
  • Leith Walk repairs and improvements – TRO for Brunswick Street to Dalmeny Street
  • Leith Walk repairs stakeholder meeting postponed
  • Arsons and antisocial behaviour in Newhaven Road area

Community Council development and support programme

(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.

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Fairer Scotland – the CC event

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).

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