The City of Edinburgh Council has pledged support for PROCESSIONS Edinburgh. Alongside the Scottish Government’s Centenary Fund, Event Scotland part of VisitScotland’s Events Directorate and Creative Scotland, the City of Edinburgh Council has partnered with Artichoke to support the mass participatory event on 10 June. Continue reading “I was there”: sign up for PROCESSIONS Edinburgh
Big Spring Clean this Friday!
North West Localities Committee
Wednesday 25th April
7pm Dean of Guild Court Room, City Chambers
This is a public meeting and members of the public are welcome to attend
Residents are being encouraged to tune in to the second meeting of their Locality Committee when they meet this week to discuss the pressing topics in their local area.
North West Localities Committees meets on Wednesday evening in the City Chambers and can be attended in person or viewed live via webcast.
Main Council Committees currently have responsibility for services across the city and Locality Committees will complement this by addressing specific service and community issues within their areas.
Each of the Committees will have powers over community safety, lifelong learning and libraries, traffic management, roads and parking, parks and green space, street cleaning and open space maintenance and public realm projects on a local basis.
Councillors on the North West Locality Committee will meet from 7pm to 9pm on Wednesday and Convener Cllr Robert Aldridge will manage discussion of the Locality Improvement Plan and hear a Health and Social Care update.
You can find out more about Locality Committees and their membership on the Council’s website.
See below for meeting papers
Tuesday 24 April and Thursday 26 April
Five Ways Junction, Trinity
4.0 – 7.0 pm Continue reading Paths for Everyone information events in Trinity
Final designs for the road layout and kerb lines on Picardy Place have now been agreed by the Council following further discussions with cycling and pedestrian organisations and the local community. Continue reading Picardy Place: council agrees final designs
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport Shona Robison visited Muirhouse yesterday to officially open the new Pennywell All Care Centre. Ms Robison met staff and guests during a tour of the facility before cutting a ribbon to declare the ‘one stop shop’ open. Continue reading Health Secretary formally opens Pennywell All Care Centre
New flood gates with artwork featuring an inlaid carved poppy motif have been installed at the Warriston Viaduct beside Lady Haig’s Poppy Factory. The gates, which form part of the City of Edinburgh Council’s Water of Leith Flood Prevention scheme, were “adopted” by staff at the historic Poppy Factory and will prove to be something of a local attraction as well as being wholly practical. Continue reading Decorative floodgates open at Poppy Factory
Friday 20th April 10am – 12 noon
North Edinburgh Arts
Free lunch – All welcome
Work gets underway this week to improve safety at various locations on Leith Walk, including what is believed to be the first installation in Scotland of a particular kind of cycleway delineators. Continue reading New road safety works begin on Leith Walk this week
Events aimed at encouraging more and more people to walk and cycle are to be held in each of the four Edinburgh localities for the first time this year as part of a calendar of active travel events.
Continue reading £564,000 funding to encourage walking and cycling across Edinburgh
