West Pilton West Granton: your community needs YOU!

Please get your application to be a Community Councillor form in to our Returning Officer, Councillor Vicki Redpath immediately!!

A nomination form is attached (see below)

You have to get it signed by 2 other residents who propose and second your nomination.

Please send the completed form to Vicki. Her email address is below but your form has to be actually signed.

Either give it to her directly or leave your form at the West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre early on Monday where I will pick it up and deliver it to Vicki.

Vicki is on 0131 529 3262 or vicki.redpath@edinburgh.gov.uk

Vicki will leave some blank forms at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre at about 11 o’ clock this morning. Forms can be filled in and then left at Muirhouse Library for her to collect when she does her surgery on Monday at 6pm.

Please tell anyone else you know would be interested in becoming a Community Councillor. We only have till Monday night to get nominations in!

Please make this a priority, we need you!!

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Barbara Robertson

End of summer and time for new faces at Trinity CC

Here’s your first update of the autumn together with details of how to join Trinity Community Council. It’s really very simple. Just get two other residents who haven’t already nominated someone to sign the attached form (below) , fill in your own details, sign the second side of it and return both to Cllr Allan Jackson at Edinburgh City Chambers by 4pm on Monday 26th September.

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Muirhouse Shopping Centre to be demolished

Gunner to go for good as regeneration plans unveiled

The mutli-million pound regeneration of Muirhouse and Pennywell has taken another significant step forward with the launch of a consultation exercise on Muirhouse Shopping Centre and the surrounding environment. Continue reading Muirhouse Shopping Centre to be demolished

Your community needs YOU! – be part of something great!

Community Council nominations open on Monday

Nominations for Edinburgh’s community councils open on Monday (5 September) and the city council is calling on people passionate about their area to play an active role and be part of something great! Continue reading Your community needs YOU! – be part of something great!

Constance: ‘Huge appetite for community involvement’

An overwhelming number of Scots – 96% – think that local people should be involved in making decisions about the design and delivery of their public services. The 2015 Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey, published yesterday, also shows that 35% of people had either volunteered at, or help set up, a local community organisation, and well over half (61%) think improvements can be made. Continue reading Constance: ‘Huge appetite for community involvement’

Trinity CC Summer Newsletter

As Edinburgh approaches the end of it’s annual craziness here’s an update on events closer to home and looking forward to the start of the autumn, writes Trinity CC’s BILL RODGER:

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Getting Together, Making A Difference at Royston Wardieburn

Community Event, Thursday 25 August 10am – 2pm

Royston Wardieburn Community Centre

The latest Getting Together, Making a Difference event takes place at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre tomorrow.

We are kicking off at 10.00 am with coffee and scones in the cafe and an opportunity to look at our new exhibition which includes photographs from previous getting together making a difference events, last year’s Burns Celidh, the Spring Chickens and this year’s adult summer programme.

We will then have a number of activities taking place in different parts of the building. People can chose to take part in either music, poetry or arts workshops. Each activity will start at 10.30 and will run until approximately 12.20. A free lunch will be served in the cafe from 12.30 – 1.15 and this will be followed by entertainment. We are aiming to finish by 2.00 p.m.

A crèche has been organised to allow parents with pre-school children to take part. If people require a creche place, they should call the centre tomorrow if possible to book a place as the crèche is likely to be busy (tel 552 5700).

The event is open to everyone – the more the merrier!

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For further information contact Lynn McCabe or Lydia Markham at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre, 552 5700

Continue reading Getting Together, Making A Difference at Royston Wardieburn

Planning and Design: It’s YOUR community

Communities to have their say in the design of their area

Communities across Scotland will have the chance to map out the future of their towns with design experts. The Scottish Government is launching two funds to allow people to have a direct role in making their towns and villages better places to live.

Funding of £300,000 is available across two grant schemes – the Design Charrettes programme and the Activating Ideas Fund.

Charrettes bring together the public, stakeholders and designers over a number of days to draw up viable proposals, while the Activating Ideas fund will support participation and empowerment initiatives in disadvantaged areas.

Minister for Local Government Kevin Stewart said: “The quality of our places has an important influence on our lives. This Government is committed to empowering communities and involving them in the planning process.

“We have already seen really good examples of this in the few years since the charrettes programme has been running. In Maybole the Community Association and Community Council sourced additional funding to modernise and improve access to the Town Hall gardens. And in Girvan there is a successful plan for a new swimming facility which is due to open in 2017 following the closure of the local pool.

“Local communities have a wealth of knowledge about their local area. Bringing communities together with design expertise will enable ideas and proposals to be developed to deliver positive change. This initiative provides a way of enabling people across Scotland to have their say on the long- term future of their community.”

Continue reading Planning and Design: It’s YOUR community

Drylaw Telford CC Annual General Meeting

WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST at 7pm

West Pilton West Granton Community Council meets on Tuesday

Please find attached the agenda for our next meeting, Tuesday 2nd August at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre.

We are inviting Councillor Vicki Redpath as our Community Council’s Returning Officer to speak to us (Edinburgh’s community council elections take place this September).

Speakers will also be in attendance from the Housing Planning Department to present and outline the housing proposals for West Pilton Grove and Crewe Road Gardens.

Hope to see you there,

Barbara Robertson

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