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Leith Central CC draft minutes, 17 February 2013

Here are draft minutes from the meeting of 17 February 2014: 2014_02_17 draft

Topics discussed include:

  • LCCC team-building
  • Police action against house-breaking
  • Leith Decides
  • Drug users abusing Pilrig Park

Leith matters to us

Leith Central Community Council is firmly committed to working towards the best it can achieve for its area. To do so, we want to be proactive, to get into matters before they become faites accomplis.

So, guided by Trevor Davies, a former Leith ward councillor and planning convenor, now a professor of planning, LCCC members gathered earlier this month for a training and team-building day.

This is Professor Davies’ presentation – lots of food for thought.

Perhaps of more interest is this summary of Leith Central Community Councillors’ thoughts. Our aspirations are high:

Our hopefulness makes us look towards the future. We see an improvement in the quality of the place, especially in the townscape of Leith Walk, as a key to a more equal future, where there is deeper involvement and greater empowerment.

We seek the power to change, to make our place a better place to live. We know that this can happen only through the power of neighbourliness and a strong community. For our neighbours, for our children and grandchildren, we want this place to be better, cleaner, safer, greener.

Agree? Disagree? What do you think? Please let us know – come to our meetings (details here), comment below or email, tweet, phone or write to us!

Leith Walk repairs – LCCC’s position

This paper shows the position Leith Central Community Council adopted on 20 January 2014. The yellow highlights show amendments to the original agreed at the meeting.

The main points are:

LCCC agrees that the highest priority for Leith Walk is the speedy implementation of physical improvement measures, fixing the serious deterioration of the public realm since 2007. In particular, LCCC agrees to pursue implementation of measures with a design life of 7-15 years in the following order of priority:

  1. for Pilrig Street to Picardy Place and Foot of the Walk -­ the most heavily used sections of Leith Walk, implementation of immediate basic pedestrian measures starting at the northern end, reinstating pavements to what was there before tram works/MUDFA disruption ­ same materials, same layout and requiring no immediate new TRO, and using simplified procurement procedures and (some of) the £3.2m budget initially approved in 2011. This initial work should also include routine patching of potholes (from ordinary repair budget) and renewal of yellow lines.
  2. for Crowne Place to Iona Street, approval of present TRO and subsequent speedy implementation ­ despite possible design shortcomings, followed by a review in light of first 12 months experience, in particular the option of locating a number of communal bins in suitable side streets.
  3. using projected remaining funds and coordinated with implementation of recommendation 2a (accepting minor duplication of work), create a more ambitious design for Pilrig Street to Picardy Place and Foot of the Walk that meets the Scottish Government funding criteria and benefits in the first instance local residents, particularly pedestrians, then public transport and cyclists, then retailers and visitors to Leith Walk and finally road users who are passing through.