Drylaw Telford CC meets 27 April

WEDNESDAY 27 APRIL

DRYLAW NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, 7pm

landscapes

It’s back to ordinary business for Drylaw Telford Community Council this month following last month’s Tierney Award presentation. The meeting will discuss Living Landscapes’ plans for Easter Drylaw Park.

With citywide community council elections scheduled to take place this autumn, Drylaw Telford’s chairman Alex Dale confirmed that the local CC won’t hold a formal AGM in May.

He said: “Our May meeting is usually our AGM but as this is Community Council Election year we can defer until the first month after election period, as outlined in the Scheme for Community Councils.”

Attached: Agenda for April 27th plus Draft March Minutes, End of year accounts for approval at meeting and a plan that Living Landscapes are introducing to Drylaw Park.

Agenda DTCC Mtg. April 2016 DTCC Minutes March 2016 (Draft) (1) Drylaw Park Living landscapes Design DTCC ACCOUNTS 2016 (Draft)

Letter: time to recapture a social spirit

Miners by Norman Cornish

Dear Editor

Private ownership and control over major parts of industry and commerce does not and cannot operate for the benefit of all. If individuals or groups of investors do not make enough profit they have no hesitation in moving their money elsewhere to do so. It cannot be right that such power to determine if one has a job or not is theirs.

In my long life I have seen some of the poverty and despair of the 1920s and 1930s, and the devastating effects of World War Two, but in 1945 ordinary people said ‘we are going to change things, where the wealth of the country will be used to benefit the people’, and they did so in many ways: the NHS to care for all, taking the essential industries of gas and electricity suppliers into public ownership (and, at that time, the main energy provider – coal mining) and many other public services were also started.

Later, many circumstances contributed to undermine this determination to push forward more changes in society to benefit the people: this allowed the wealthy to regain power and control over our lives.

The very nature of the system of private control and ownership cannot do other than create devastating cycles of poverty and despair for millions of people both here and abroad, as investors fight each other to maximise their profits.

The last fifty years have seen the results of their gross greed and mismanagement; recent events within our own industries show all too clearly they will continue to wreak havoc on the lives of millions – unless these millions regain the determination people had in 1945.

A. Delahoy, Silverknowes Gardens

Trinity walkabout this weekend

TRINITY WALKABOUT

SATURDAY 23 APRIL 

MEET AT KING EDWARD VII STATUE, NEWHAVEN ENTRANCE TO VICTORIA PARK at 10AM

trinity walkabout

Each year Trinity Community Council organises a short walkabout around part of Trinity, together with Edinburgh Council officials, to note problems and ensure action is taken.

This year we are focusing on Victoria Park following the setting up of the Friends of Victoria Park Group, part of the Dudleys and the pathway from Newhaven Road to Trinity Academy.

Everyone is welcome to come along, particularly if there are issues you want to draw to our attention. You can join us at the start or along the way. We will finish around noon.

Trinity Community Council