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Some Community Grants Funding still available in NW Locality

Three local Neighbourhood Partnerships are taking applications for the remaining balance of their Community Grants Fund allocation 2018-19:

  • Western – balance £6243
  • Forth – balance £793
  • Inverleith – balance £10,554

Almond Neighbourhood Partnership (which includes Muirhouse) has allocated it’s full budget for 2018 – 19.

Application forms and guidance can be found here. Please get any completed applications, or draft project ideas, to Elaine Lennon as soon as possible: Community Grants Fund

Allocations for the new financial year 2019 – 20 should be announced soon.

It’s Meadowbank … but not as you know it!

The city council has released a computer-generated journey through its soon-to-be-built Meadowbank Sports Centre. The flythrough video, produced by Holmes Miller and Visual Lane, has been created to give future users an impression of how the new cutting-edge complex will look when it opens in 2020. Continue reading It’s Meadowbank … but not as you know it!

Tram planners listening to Leithers?

Cargo bikes, subsidised local discount schemes, a business continuity fund and logistics hubs – these are among the ideas most supported in a local survey of businesses who would be most affected should the Council decide to take trams down to Newhaven. Continue reading Tram planners listening to Leithers?

Parking Holidays over Festive Period

The parking holidays in Edinburgh over Christmas and New Year are:

Tuesday 25 December 2018

Wednesday 26 December 2018

Tuesday 1 January 2019

Members of the public can park free of charge in public parking bays and on single yellow lines on these dates.

The parking holidays are detailed on the city council’s web page at

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20276/parking_spaces/566/parking_holidays