Tag Archives: Leith Walk

June LCCC meeting minutes DRAFT

Click to download: 2015_06_22 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

  • Shrub Place pavement-blocking
  • Policing, community beat officers and local statistics
  • Leith Walk – plans for Pilrig St to Montgomery St
  • new flats at Shrub Hill
  • Edinburgh Solar co-op

April LCCC meeting minutes: approved

Click to download: 2015_04_20 final

These minutes were approved in the June meeting because the May meeting was the 2015 AGM – that meeting considered the 2014 AGM draft minutes.

Topics discussed included

  • Shrub Place pavement-blocking
  • Edinburgh Association of Community Councils
  • car crime
  • burglaries in Pilrig Street
  • Leith Museum/Customs House
  • New kerbside recycling scheme
  • Leith Walk issues
  • Pilrig Park

 

When will it end?

Or should that be When will it even begin?

With thanks to Greener Leith for alerting us to this, Edinburgh Council has put off until Autumn 2015 a decision about extending the trams northwards. Meanwhile, Leith Central CC, and (we assume) just about every Leith resident, business and visitor, is sick fed up with the ongoing delays to repairing Leith Walk. Continue reading

An opinion on how Leith Walk junctions might be better

In connection with the latest proposals for Leith Walk (see here and here), here is an interesting suggestion of how one of the  junctions might be laid out better. LCCC does not endorse this suggestion, but publicises it  – and the rest of Uncle Kempez‘ blog – as food for thought.

Leith Programme Stakeholder Update 77 – Updated proposals for Pilrig Street to McDonald Road

(adapted from an email from Alan Dean, Partnership Development Officer, sent on 26 June 2015 at 15:42)

The latest design proposals for this section have been developed and these can be viewed on the Council website. The statutory consultation on the proposed designs will begin very soon,  details of which will be contained in a future Stakeholder Update.

Alan Dean BA (Hons) MSc PGDip I Partnership Development Officer (Stakeholder Liaison and Engagement) I Services for Communities I City Centre Leith Neighbourhood Team I 249 High Street I Edinburgh I EH1 1PN

Tel: 0131 529 7519        Mobile: 07739 188 438           alan.dean@edinburgh.gov.uk