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Have your say on parades and processions

A consultation by the City of Edinburgh Council is currently underway on the rules and guidance around holding parades and processions, including protest marches. The public are being asked for their feedback on a new policy and code of conduct providing more clarity on the process for staging a public procession. Continue reading Have your say on parades and processions

Council prunes back garden waste service

Collections of garden waste will be changing for residents across Edinburgh from March. Brown bins will now be collected by the City of Edinburgh Council once every three weeks all year round, instead of every two weeks in the summer and four weeks in the winter.
The council says the change will result in more consistent collections throughout the year.
The change to the service was agreed as part of last year’s budget in order to enable the service to continue running despite increasing financial pressures. Environment Convener, Councillor Lesley Hinds, said: “We know how much the garden waste service is valued by residents and that’s why we continue to provide it.
“These changes to the frequency of collections will result in more consistency throughout the year, but will also enable us to keep providing this service, which I know has not been possible for all Councils amidst increasing financial constraints.”
Stickers and tags will be applied to bins over the coming weeks to remind residents of the change, and 2017 bin calendars can be downloaded from the Council website, detailing the date on which three-weekly collections begin.
In some cases there will be an interim collection before the three-weekly collections begin. The residents concerned will receive a letter informing them of the date of this interim collection.

Any extra waste which can’t be fitted into bins can be taken to local Community Recycling Centres in Sighthill, Seafield or Craigmillar.
Find out more about bins and recycling, including bin collection calendars, on the Council website.

 

Culture Project Fund: applications close 10 March

The City of Edinburgh Council’s Culture Project Fund will in its first year focus on support for the performing arts. Grants of up to £5,000 will be awarded to organisations based in Edinburgh to help with the costs involved in developing new performing artwork. Continue reading Culture Project Fund: applications close 10 March

“A matter of luck a child didn’t die”

PPP School buildings report published

An independent report into the closure of 17 Edinburgh schools has been published. The report into safety failures has highlighted a lack of proper scrutiny of the construction work and criticises both the council and the partnership which managed the building contracts, as well as the construction company. The city council said lessons would be learned from the report but Edinburgh’s Green councillors said the report is a “shocking wake up call.”

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Edinburgh’s Council Tax to rise by 3%

The City of Edinburgh Council has voted to increase Council Tax bills by 3%. The council says it will continue to prioritise frontline services for young, older and vulnerable residents while making necessary savings under the budget agreed yesterday, but critics say Edinburgh’s citizens are being forced to pay more for poorer council services.

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