Tag Archives: Friends of Pilrig Park

September LCCC meeting minutes DRAFT

Click to download: 2014_09_22 draft

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

Topics discussed included

  • LCCC’s website
  • alcohol and drugs issues
  • Cala Home’s plans for sorting office site on Brunswick Road
  • Leith Walk repairs and improvements
  • Pilrig Park
  • Edinburgh Local development plan

August LCCC meeting minutes – final

Click to download: 2014_08_18 final

There are no content changes from the draft version published soon after the August meeting.

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

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

Clearance day at Pilrig Park

FW Balfours Botany Sat 23 August 1030  12pm

Balfour’s Botany: Making Pilrig Park more Wild!

Over the summer months artist Andrea Geile and horticulturalist Rebecca Govier have been working with local groups to investigate the legacy of Edinburgh botanist John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884). Known by some as ‘Woody Fiber’ his enthusiasm for botanical exploration was not just for the discovery of new species, but in understanding ‘their place in vegetation’. Inspired by ‘Woody’, Balfour’s Botany combines both his passion for teaching and the desire to understand a plants ‘place’, bringing this dynamism once more to Pilrig Park.

Clearance Day – at the ‘wee’ play park Saturday 23 August, 10.30 – 12pm in Pilrig Park

Supported by the Friends of Pilrig Park the aim of the clearance day is to prepare the area behind the small play park for native planting, which will take place in September.  There will also be litter kits available to help pick up the rubbish that has accumulated over the summer months.

For more information about this event, contact – friendsofpilrigpark@gmail.com

This event is open to all – no experience necessary

Join in and join us for a free Working Lunch from 12.30pm

Citizen Curator, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 21 Hawthornvale, Edinburgh, EH6 4JT 

44+(0)7812167130 info@citizencurator.com

Draft minutes of LCCC April meeting

As with all draft minutes, these should be regarded as a rough draft until and unless they are approved at the next meeting.

Click to download: 2014_04_28 draft

Topics discussed include

  • Leith police station’s area
  • police action against antisocial behaviour
  • Leith festival
  • Leith CCs get-together
  • Community engagement
  • Leith walk repairs: contracts have been issued
  • Pilrig Park
  • Croall place advertising: planning outcome
  • McDonald Road secondary school: planning outcome
  • Shrub Hill House and Shrub Place
  • Leith community plan conference (16 May)
  • Redbraes community Garden
  • Edinburgh Tool Library
  • Referendum debates