Tag Archives: Planning

LCCC committee convenors etc appointed

At Leith Central CC’s first post-election meeting (Monday 21 October 2019), the following convenors, representatives and committee-members were agreed:

Planning

  • Convenor: Pierre Foressier
  • Other members: Nick Gardner and John Wilkinson

Transport and clean streets

  • Convenor: TBC
  • Other members: TBC
  • Harald Tobermann and Charlotte Encombe will continue to represent LCCC at Community Councils Together on Trams, which meets with CEC’s trams team towards the end of each month.

Parks and green spaces

  • Convenor: Nick Gardner
  • Other members: TBC

Licensing

Decisions were held over until LCCC’s November 2019 meeting. Hence

  • Convenor: TBC
  • Other members: TBC

 

 

LCCC September 2019 **DRAFT** minutes

Please note that these are draft minutes, and so do not represent LCCC’s agreed positions etc. If there are any queries, please contact LCCC. Due to various connectivity issues, this draft was not approved at the October meeting.

Minutes of the ordinary meeting of Leith Central Community Council, held in Leith Community Education Centre on Monday 16 September 2019 at 7:30pm

Actions and decisions are red italic. nem con means that no-one spoke or voted against a decision. Continue reading →

LCCC October 2019 meeting agenda

Monday, 21 October 2019 at 7pm
Leith Community Centre, 12a Newkirkgate
McDonald Road Library, Nelson Hall

The following items will be chaired by Cllr Amy McNeese-Mechan, returning officer for the recent LCCC elections.

  1. Welcome and introductions
  2. Apologies
  3. Declarations of interest
  4. Declaration of election result
  5. Appointment of office-bearers
    1. Appointment of chair
    2. Appointment of Secretary
    3. Appointment of Treasurer
    4. Appointment of Engagement Officer

At this stage in the meeting the new Chair will take over.

  1. AOCB
  2. Date of next meeting

The ‘ordinary meeting’ will then take place:

  1. Welcome, introductions, attendance, apologies, declarations of interest
  2. Approval of minutes of 16 September 2019 meeting
  3. Matters Arising
  4. Community Police Officer’s report
  5. Pre-application presentation and Q&A: 19/03433/PAN | Residential development comprising up to 63 apartments, associated infrastructure and landscaping. | 14 Ashley Place Edinburgh EH6 5PX
  6. Planning
  7. Transport & Clean Streets
  8. Parks & Green Spaces
  9. Licensing
  10. LCCC Governance and Office Bearers’ reports
  11. Bulletin
  12. Open Forum
  13. AOCB
  14. Future Meetings (usually 3rd Monday of the month) and meeting topics/presentations

LCCC September 2019 meeting agenda

Monday, 16 September 2019 at 7pm
Leith Community Centre, 12a Newkirkgate
McDonald Road Library, Nelson Hall

The following items will be chaired by Cllr Amy McNeese-Mechan, returning officer for the recent LCCC elections.

  1. Welcome and introductions
  2. Apologies
  3. Declarations of interest
  4. Declaration of election result
  5. Appointment of office-bearers
    1. Appointment of chair
    2. Appointment of Secretary
    3. Appointment of Treasurer
    4. Appointment of Engagement Officer

At this stage in the meeting the new Chair will take over.

  1. AOCB
  2. Date of next meeting

The ‘ordinary meeting’ will then take place:

  1. Welcome, introductions, attendance, apologies, declarations of interest
  2. Approval of minutes of 16 September 2019 meeting
  3. Matters Arising
  4. Community Police Officer’s report
  5. Pre-application presentation and Q&A: 19/03433/PAN | Residential development comprising up to 63 apartments, associated infrastructure and landscaping. | 14 Ashley Place Edinburgh EH6 5PX
  6. Planning
  7. Transport & Clean Streets
  8. Parks & Green Spaces
  9. Licensing
  10. LCCC Governance and Office Bearers’ reports
  11. Bulletin
  12. Open Forum
  13. AOCB
  14. Future Meetings (usually 3rd Monday of the month) and meeting topics/presentations

LCCC community planning event notes (final version)

This replaces a post with draft notes, which has now been deleted.

2019_09_21, Nelson Hall, McDonald Rd Library. Notes taken by Bruce Ryan

1 Introduction to the event

Duncan Bremner (DB) of Citizen Curator introduced the event.

Harald Tobermann (HT), vicechair of Leith Central Community Council (LCCC), introduced LCCC’s role in this event. He noted that the event is about the Local Development Plan (LDP), called CityPlan 2030, that is currently in development. The event would also touch on other relevant legislation, such as the Community Empowerment Act, including Asset Transfer. (This enables local communities to request to run publicly-owned assets.)

DB noted that Edinburgh Council (CEC) is due to put CityPlan 2030 out to public consultation towards the end of 2019. Then the final version is due to be published in 2022, and would be in place until 2032. This LDP is the document that developers refer to when planning developments. It also informs many other CEC services and activities, especially land-use.

DB noted that the Scottish Government (SG) has recently passed a Planning Act. Now some secondary legislation is needed to complete it. However, this act enables community organisations to develop local place plans (LPPs), and obliges local authorities to ‘have regard’ to LPPs. This legislation is so far untested.

DB also noted that the Scottish Land Commission is considering land-use, and how communities should be involved in such discussions. Continue reading →