Category: Pilton

LIVEN-UP: seated exercise training at Pilton Community Health Project

Pilton Community Health Project will be delivering their two-day ‘Liven-Up’ seated exercise training course next month. Continue reading LIVEN-UP: seated exercise training at Pilton Community Health Project

Boswall Parkway: Re-Imagine Your Street

BIODIVERSITY WORKSHOPS

Thursday 1st February

3pm – 5.30pm or 6pm – 8:30pm

Granton United Church, Boswall Parkway

The Workshop will ask:

  • How might Boswall Parkway look in the future?
  • what challenges and opportunities might there be?

Funded by Adaptation Scotland, the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh is running this pilot project to consult with communities about solutions to climate change and adaptation.

Following an open application process, the Re-Imagining Your Gardens & Streets project was chosen to be our latest Community Engagement Pioneer Project. Jointly ran by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, the project will investigate a range of community engagement techniques by running outreach events focused on generating ideas to transform streets in the Granton area into well adapted community spaces.

The design of streets and gardens can significantly influence an areas resilience to climate impacts, with large amounts of paved areas contributing to surface water flooding, reduced biodiversity and urban heat island effect. These spaces are also literally on our doorsteps, and represent a tangible and immediate route in to talking to communities about wider adaptation themes.

However, community improvements are best driven by community aspiration, so this project will focus on first introducing the broad concept of creating well adapted streets and gardens, and then facilitate a community conversation to find the ideal interpretation for this unique area.

We will be working with the creative practitioners from the Museum of Future Now to help community members imagine this aspiration future and the ideas they come up with will be turned into illustrations for display in the community hub.

Alongside this, a neighbourhood adaptation planning tool will be created to help other areas explore the possible routes to creating well adapted gardens and streets. This work will compliment other initiatives ongoing in the city, including Edinburgh Living Landscape and Edinburgh Adapts.

There’s still time to book your workshop place: contact Leone on 0791 873 6481 or email lalexander@rgbe.org.uk

 

 

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets on Thursday

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership will meet on Thursday 18th January from 6 – 8pm at North West Locality Office in West Pilton Gardens. 

Items on the agenda include information on walking and cycling improvements on Lower Granton Road, an introduction to the new Health and Social Care Manager, updates on the North West Locality Improvement Plan and the latest Community Grants Fund allocations. There’s also an opportunity to raise issues with your local councillors during the Question Time session.

All welcome.

See below for full set of meeting papers:

FNP 180118 Full papers final

The year in pictures: November

Edinburgh Music School Open Day … despite closure threat (later lifted)

Living in Harmony training

Public Meeting to discuss effects of welfare reforms

Forth 1 kicks off Christmas charity appeal

Granton & District Community Council holds open meeting on planning democracy

Wardie Bay Beachwatch: the message is getting though at last (helped by Blue Planet 2)

Hearts players get the Christmas jumpers on early to support Save the Children

16 days of action against gender-based violence

At last … a memorial for Edinburgh’s Elsie Inglis is unveiled at Central Library

Muirhouse Shopping Centre’s coming down …

… so what happens next?

Castle Street Christmas Fair

Paolozzi sculptures take a walk to Hillside Place while Leith Street works continue

Granton Community Gardeners prepare Harvest Meal

Housing Minister visits Muirhouse regeneration area

St Andrew’s Day appeal

First Minister lays wreath on Remembrance Sunday

Muirhouse Housing Association: Moneywise at Craigroyston High School

Robert Mugabe forced out

Royal couple celebrate 70th wedding anniversary

and Price Harry gets engaged

Tree planting on West Pilton Park

Charity cheque from Leonardo’s

Da Vinci painting sells for record £341 million

Ferryhill Christmas Fayre

 

Health Project launches Hungry for Change report

“Our experience is rich and valuable and we want to be part of the solution” – Sean Fitzharris

Pilton Community Health Project has launched its new report, ‘Hungry for Change’. The report, the result of conversations with local people experiencing food insecurity, was launched at the Old Kirk and Muirhouse Parish Church yesterday. PCHP want the report to be a catalyst for action to alleviate food insecurity for North Edinburgh residents and to tackle the root causes of poverty. Continue reading Health Project launches Hungry for Change report

Ferry Road hit and run: “Your help could prove vital”

Net closing on motorbike suspects

Police are continuing their enquiries following Saturday’s hit and run incident on Ferry Road in which a ten year old boy was seriously injured. There was a significant police presence across the area yesterday as the search for those for those responsible goes on. Continue reading Ferry Road hit and run: “Your help could prove vital”

August round of Neighbourhood Partnership meetings

Neighbourhood Partnership meetings are taking place in August

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With the ongoing rollout of new Localities community planning structures across the city, the future of Neighbourhood Partnerships has been in some doubt but they are back for now – at least until a suitable replacement can be agreed.

Neighbourhood Partnership meetings are open to the public, so take the opportunity to hear discussions and decisions about Local Community Grant Fund applications, North West Locality Improvement Planning, participate in the popular ‘question time’ session and more.

There are four Neighbourhood Partnerships within the new North West Locality and each of these will meet in August. Dates are:

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership

Tuesday 15 August at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre, 6.30-8.30pm

Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership

Monday 21 August at Stockbridge Library, 6.30-8.30pm.

Almond Neighbourhood Partnership

Wed 23 August at Rosebery Hall, South Queensferry, 6.30-8.30pm.

Western Neighbourhood Partnership

Thursday 31 August Drumbrae Hub, 6.30-8.30pm.

Full agendas for all meetings will be available here