Testing unit opens at North Local Office as Covid cases rise

Two more mobile testing units are open for people without symptoms in parts of Edinburgh where #Covid19 cases are increasing:

North West Locality Office, 8 West Pilton Gardens: 10am-6pm until Sunday 13 June

and

@ South East Locality office, 40 Captain’s Road 10am-6pm until Thursday.

#stopthespread

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets this afternoon

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership

Public Meeting

At 2pm on Wednesday 30th November 2016

City of Edinburgh Council North Office

8 West Pilton Gardens

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The main focus of the meeting will be current and planned Transport Planning across the area – and how this links with local regeneration activity.  Continue reading Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets this afternoon

North Edinburgh to tackle dog fouling in new initiative

Environmental Wardens Team Leader Mark Bannon on a forthcoming initiative:

NORTH  NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM

Dog Fouling Exercise 8 April -12 May 

Introduction

This planning is well underway and involves SfC partners to address dog fouling issues. A partnership initiative approach will provide, education, multi-agency working and enforcement to target problems encountered in an effort to minimise this anti social behaviour.

Main Aim of this Initiative:-

To reduce dog fouling and enforce on those offending. Encouraging changes in public behaviour and attitudes is a complex and lengthy business. Who would have thought twenty years ago that most buildings and workplaces, both public and private, would now have implemented no smoking policies? This has been achieved largely via consensus between smokers and non-smokers. In order to succeed, anti dog-fouling policies must achieve that same level of agreement between dog owners and non-owners.

The North Neighbourhood Environmental Wardens, Community Safety Officers, Safer Neighbourhood Team and CCTV 

  • a high visibility and low visibility presence from  an enforcement role helping to create a clean environment for members of the public in our local community
  • patrol areas of local ‘Hot Spots’ known for dog fouling. Referrals will be made to the Task Force on a daily basis
  • take enforcement action against anyone found to be contravening the Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003.

Mark Bannon

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