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Early start for tonight’s community council meeting

Granton & District Community Council

Monday 27th August 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Meeting venue: Royston Wardieburn Community Centre

Please find attached agenda. You can see the agenda online. Notes from the last meeting will be circulated at the meeting. Please accept my sincere apology for the delay in communication as i have just back home from holiday this weekend.​

Looking forward to see you on 6.30pm at RWCC.

Mizan Rahman

Secretary, Granton and District Community Council

E-mail: secretary@grantoncc.scot | Tel: 07930 183352 | www.grantoncc.scot

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Improving services? Have your say on Community Planning

“Community planning is all about how public bodies work both together and with local communities to design and deliver better services that can make a real difference to local people’s lives” – Council leader Cllr Adam McVey

The views of capital residents and partners are being sought as part of a drive by the Edinburgh Partnership to plan and deliver better services for the community.

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Still time to book your place at Granton Marina meeting

Due to greater public interest over Marina presentation at our next 30th July meeting, we moved into a bigger venue to accommodate increased number of people (writes MIZAN RAHMAN). 

Therefore, our next public meeting will be held at:

Granton Parish Church

55 Boswall Parkway

Edinburgh  

EH5 2DA

Please accept our apology for any inconvenience due to change of the venue.

Please find the agenda and minute of the last meeting.

Kind regards

Mizan Rahman

Secretary, Granton and District Community Council

E-mail: secretary@grantoncc.scot | Tel: 07930 183352 | www.grantoncc.scot

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Edinburgh Partnership launches community planning review

Your chance to influence how community planning works for Edinburgh

Do you feel involved in decision-making? Are community voices being heard? What can be done to improve local democracy and community engagement? Where does the community fit into community planning?

In the snappily-titled ‘Edinburgh Partnership Review & Consultation on Governance and Community Planning Arrangements (the name alone should be enough scare a few people off!) The Edinburgh Partnership is consulting community councils, community groups and individuals on community planing in the capital.

Community planning brings together public agencies, the third sector and communities to work together to plan and deliver services which make a real difference to people’s lives.  The Edinburgh Partnership involves these partners in overseeing this work for the city.

The Edinburgh Partnership recognises that community planning processes can be improved.  In this consultation, the Edinburgh Partnership would like to hear people’s views on:

  • how communities and community groups can more effectively influence decisions about their community.
  • how the governance arrangements can be improved to:
    • make it clear how decisions are made, and who is making them, by improving the groups and structures involved
    • make partnership working stronger
    • make better connections between the different levels of partnership working in the city.

Why is The Edinburgh Partnership consulting?

In Scotland, the law says a range of public bodies must take part in community planning. This is set out in the Scottish Government’s Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. The act was designed to strengthen the influence communities have in making decisions about their area – this is known as community planning.

Below is the current governance structure in Edinburgh, which forms the basis of the consultation. It shows many partnership and advisory groups feed into and from the Edinburgh Partnership.

There are other bodies in the city which link to and/or have a role in these arrangements but they are not part of the governance structure. These include community councils, Council committees, the Edinburgh Association of Community Councils and the Equality and Rights Network. They provide the city-wide perspective for community and interest groups. These are not included in the consultation.

To help develop the consultation the Edinburgh Partnership carried out a review with the people involved in the current partnerships and groups shown in the governance structure (as above).  Their views on what is working well and what could be better have shaped the proposals and questions in this consultation.

The Edinburgh Partnership would now like to hear YOUR views as it’s recognised that this consultation is relevant in different ways to a wide range of organisations.

Timescales

Deadline for submissions is Sunday 9th September 2018.

Your chance to influence how community planning works for Edinburgh: Take part here: