Month: January 2017

Have your say on locality priorities

There’s still time to complete our Locality Improvement Plan survey and tell us what your priorities are: everyone who lives in, visits or works in the North West area can now help shape what the LIP should focus on.

The link below will take you to a brief questionnaire where you are asked to identify what you feel is important to you, your family and your neighbours:

https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/north-west-lip

Move over, Big Society: it’s time for Mrs May’s Shared Society

The Prime Minister is to give a speech to the Charity Commission setting out how the government will tackle ‘everyday injustices’.

In a speech to the Charity Commission tomorrow morning, Prime Minister Theresa May will set out the Westminster government’s determination to build a ‘shared society’ based on the values of citizenship, responsibility and fairness. Continue reading Move over, Big Society: it’s time for Mrs May’s Shared Society

Drylaw Telford to try again

Attempt to re-establish local community council

Edinburgh held the triennial community council elections last autumn, but Drylaw Telford was one of the neighbourhoods that failed to receive the minimum number of nominations required to be established. An attempt is now being made to rectify this and to re-establish Drylaw Telford Community Council once again. Continue reading Drylaw Telford to try again

Letters: It’s time to neuter the fat cats

Dear Editor

The massive salaries, bonuses, expenses and other payments to ‘top people’ running into billions of pounds is seen by the majority of working people as totally obscene. How on Earth can it be justified, let alone accepted by them with a clear conscience, when the people who actually produce the wealth are struggling to survive, or ‘just managing’?

Even the government says things should change, but saying ‘should change’ does not mean ‘will change’.

Those who receive such payments cannot possibily spend it all, raising the temptation of investing it in tax free accounts. This also affects the majority of the working population by depriving the country of tax payments that could help pay for services like the NHS.

There must be a maximum limit set on the total amount any individual can get and there must also be a total ban on tax havens , all income being subjected to the Pay as You Earn tax.

This is the minimum start required to bring about the changes needed in the distribution of the wealth produced by working people.

A. Delahoy, Silverknowes Gardens

 

Recycle your Christmas tree

Edinburgh residents can present trees for collection and recycling by the City of Edinburgh Council, and should follow guidance on where and when to do this.

Those who use communal rubbish and recycling facilities can put their tree on next to on-street shared bins on designated dates depending on their street. These can be found on the Council website.

Some households in flatted and tenement properties may be on an existing garden waste collection route. Members of the public can check the Council website to see if their street is on a garden waste collection route and can present their Christmas tree at the kerbside by 6am on the next collection day.

Anyone else with a brown bin can either cut the tree up and place it in their garden waste bin or place it on the pavement by 6am on collection day (collection days can be checked online).

Christmas trees can also be recycled at any of the Community Recycling Centres at Sighthill, Seafield and Craigmillar between 8am and 7.30pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 6pm Saturday and Sunday.

Transport and Environment Convener, Councillor Lesley Hinds, said: “Thanks to the hard work of our staff over the festive period we have strived to continue our waste and recycling collections as usual. We are making every effort to collect real Christmas trees as efficiently as possible but we also rely on the public to help us do this by presenting their trees on the correct dates.”

To enable trees to be recycled, residents are reminded:

  • To remove all decorations from the Christmas tree
  • To remove stands from trees
  • To cut the tree in half if it is 6ft tall or more
  • Not to place trees in plastic bags, which means they cannot be recycled

Full festive waste arrangements are available on the Council website.