Tag: community engagement

Health’s off the agenda for Granton & District Community Council this month

Granton & District Community Council meeting

Monday 26 February, 7pm – 9pm

Venue: Royston and Wardieburn Community Centre, 11 Pilton Drive North

Guest speaker: to be announced

There’s been a change of plan for this month’s community council meeting. Helen Scammell, Co-Director of Pilton Community Health Project (PCHP) was due to address the meeting but she has had to reschedule due to inforeseen circumstances – Helen will now attend our April meeting.

I am now looking for a speaker for February meeting.

Looking forward to see you on 26th February. 

Mizan Rahman
 
Secretary, Granton and District Community Council 
E-mail: secretary@grantoncc.scot | Tel: 07930 183352 | www.grantoncc.scot 

A community going places

A local charity has asked NEN to support their campaign to make a city community a better place …

Craigentinny: a community seriously going places

People Know How, an Edinburgh charity based near Meadowbank, has an invitation for everyone living in Craigentinny to put together plans and ideas for a great future for the area.

People Know How works with local residents to identify a community’s assets – all the good and positive things happening – to capitalise on them and realise everyone’s aspirations for the future. Putting together your ideas and skills with their support can bring about positive social change and real improvements to the lives of people.

They believe that by sharing our feelings and listening to each other, we can work to enable huge and exciting changes that communities like Craigentinny want and need. Supporting and helping local people to consult local people on what they think is the first and most important step in this project.

So – to plan this future with you – People Know How’s volunteers want to start a conversation, all over Craigentinny. That way we can all find out EVERYTHING people think and feel about Craigentinny – your hopes, your beefs, your plans, your dreams …

Here are a few ideas to kick the conversation off:

  • They say north-east Edinburgh is going to expand and boom in the next few years. How’s that going to work for you? What would you like to see happening?
  • What are the great things about Craigentinny and around that work well? What’s under-appreciated? What could work better? What needs supporting and what needs sorting out?
  • How are you doing? Are you appreciated? Do you feel that your community could make better use of you and your skills?
  • What should People Know How do to help Craigentinny residents unlock their ideas and potential? What do you think we could do together to make life here fairer and happier?

In the next few months there will be many chances to share views and to sound off with the People Know How team. You’ll probably see their volunteers talking to folk on street corners (and, no, they won’t be asking for your money), in pubs, clubs, churches, outside the school and shops. They’ll be asking more questions and discussing the answers through NEN and other local media.

And – this isn’t just another bunch of “clipboarders” doing a survey that you’ll see nothing from. People Know How PROMISES that when the conversation is running, they’ll share what’s being heard, and help you get the change you want.

They want to hear from you:

People Know How:

Phone: 0131 652 1315

Email: craigentinny@peopleknowhow.org

Twitter: @PKHinnovation      

Facebook: /People Know How                            

Website: www.peopleknowhow.org

Granton & District Community Council’s latest newsletter

Granton & District CC’s latest newsletter was circulated at Monday’s meeting at Royston Wardieburn. Guest speaker at the meeting was Botanic Gardens’ Leonie Alexander, who shared information about the launch of the urban biodiversity initiative which will focus on Boswall Parkway.

Granton and District CC meets on the last Monday of the month at 7pm in Royston Wardieburn Community Centre. The next meeting is on 26th February – all welcome.

 

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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:

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Focus on youth at community council meeting

West Pilton West Granton Community Council

Tuesday 9 January, 7pm

West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre

Dear All,

A Happy New Year to you!
Just giving you a heads up that our January meeting will include a discussion led by Ben Macpherson MSP on the subject of crime and young people.
An invitation has been sent to the Police and the Council and to the young people and youth provision in the area to join us in this discussion.
The meeting has been moved to the 9th January to allow Ben and others to attend.
Hope to see you there,
Willie Black (Chair, West Pilton West Granton CC)

Designing our own communities

 People to have say in designs for their area

Community projects from Argyll and Bute to Shetland will share around £312,000 to regenerate their neighbourhoods, Local Government Minister Kevin Stewart announced today. As part of the Making Places Initiative, 19 projects will receive funding to bring people together to agree priorities for their area and shape future planning and design. Projects from Leith, Portobello and Wester Hailes are among the successful bidders.

The funding will support events that bring local people together with design professionals to identify how their places and communities can be improved. The 19 projects awarded funding include workshops to develop physical and environmental improvements to the Woodside area of North Glasgow, creating a development plan for Scalloway in Shetland and a plan to improve a shopping centre in Wester Hailes in Edinburgh.

Three Edinburgh initiatives have received the green light:

Leith £35,000 Proposed by Citizen Curator & Leith Creative

To develop and pilot a People’s Place Plan for Leith, following the successful Leith Blueprint which created a community report.

Portobello: Westbank Street Placemaking Project, £12,000 Proposed by Action Porty

To produce a community led, mixed use development masterplan for council owned land at Westbank Street, Portobello.

Westside Plaza, Wester Hailes £20,000 Proposed by Wester Hailes Community Trust

Charrette to develop a masterplan for Westside Plaza with the aim of creating a civic square at the heart of Wester Hailes town centre.

Minister for Local Government, Kevin Stewart said: “I am pleased we received so many applications from a mixture of local authorities and community groups, keen to get local people involved in plans to improve their area.

“This scheme and every project supported by it creates more opportunities for communities to choose what works for them.

“Each project has its own design challenge, whether it is a plan to regenerate an area of a city centre or looking at a smaller site in a rural community. All of these projects should lead to improvements that will create benefit for hundreds of people.”

Making Places expands on the Charette programme, offering end to end support for community capacity building, design events and project delivery. The successful projects sharing a total of £311,890 are:

Ayr North £25,000 Proposed by South Ayrshire Council

Design workshops to develop a community action plan and vision, including development of play space and community garden on site of Whitletts Primary schools.

New Cumnock £4,005 Proposed by New Cumnock Development Trust

Community design events to develop a regeneration masterplan within the New Cumnock Community Action Plan.

Carlibar Park, Barrhead £6,000 Proposed by East Renfrewshire Council

Design workshop to create a masterplan for the town centre greenspace.

Mayfield £13,400 Proposed by McSence Ltd for In It Together Partnership

Series of workshops to involve the community in developing a masterplan for Mayfield & Easthouses.

Westside Plaza, Wester Hailes £20,000 Proposed by Wester Hailes Community Trust

Charrette to develop a masterplan for Westside Plaza with the aim of creating a civic square at the heart of Wester Hailes town centre.

Woodside Improvements £30,000 Proposed by Queens Cross Housing Association

Workshops to develop an action plan for physical and environmental improvements to the Woodside area of North Glasgow.

Scalloway £15,000 Proposed by Shetland Islands Council

Design workshops to consider the future development of Scalloway and develop a Local Place Plan.

Foxbar £15,000 Proposed by Renfrewshire Council

Workshops to support the local community to develop a Local Place Plan.

Dunfermline £24,810 Proposed by Carnegie Dunfermline Trust

Community led event to develop a masterplan for a key area in Dunfermline town centre.

Maryhill & Ruchill £5,000 Proposed by Maryhill Housing Association

Walking events and place workshops to identify community priorities and improvement projects.

Leith £35,000 Proposed by Citizen Curator & Leith Creative

Develop and pilot a People’s Place Plan for Leith, following the successful Leith Blueprint which created a community report.

Helensburgh £15,000 Proposed by Argyll & Bute Council

Community consultation to create a vision and masterplan to inform the future planning process.

Inverkeithing £15,000 Proposed by Fife Council

Community activities to deliver a Master Plan for Inverkeithing, focusing on community assets, strengths, interests and values.

Kirriemuir £10,000 Proposed by Kirriemuir Community Council

Develop an architectural plan for the Gairie Works site, a key priority identified in the Kirriemuir Charrette funded by Angus Council.

Clydebank £20,000 Proposed by West Dunbartonshire Council

Design-led project concentrating on Forth & Clyde canal and connection to Clydebank town centre.

Falkland £25,175 Proposed by Falkland & Newton of Falkland Community Council

Charrette to develop a vision and design statement for Falkland and its immediate environs which will combine spatial, social and economic strategies and solutions.

Glasgow, Phoenix Nursery, Test Unit £9,500 Proposed by Agile City Community Interest Company

Project to progress ideas generated by Charrettes into physical prototypes that test assumptions and engage with local audiences.

Pollokshields: Mark Makers, £12,000 Proposed by The Pollokshields Trust

Develop plans for the creation of the ‘East Pollokshields Urban Common’ on the site of a derelict bowling green.

Portobello: Westbank Street Placemaking Project, £12,000 Proposed by Action Porty

To produce a community led, mixed use development masterplan for council owned land at Westbank Street, Portobello.

Further details of the Making Places Initiative and how to apply for support is available online