A Place Plan for Leith – have your say!

Please can residents for Leith Links spare a little time to complete the latest wee survey from the dynamic team at Eala Impacts, who are aiming to deliver a Place Plan for Leith, very soon.

A Place Plan just means a ‘design’ for the Leith that we would like to see – the best possible version of Leith. If we had such a Place Plan, Scottish Government ruling means that the City of Edinburgh Council would be obliged to consider it when making decisions on planning applications.

It’s a tool that the community could use to have a voice to speak out against the big profit-grabbing developers – and lets face it, we need all the tools we can get!

Here is the latest message from the team:

We completed the analysis of the responses we got to Survey 1, which can be found on the web page we’re using  to hold the Place Plan information: https://www.ealaimpacts.co.uk/leith-place-plan There’s some great feedback in there which we think is really interesting on its own.

From the ‘challenges’ identified by the 287 respondents and using many of the suggestions put forward, we have drafted responses/actions against each of the 14 topic areas and used them to build Survey 2. It can be found here: https://form.jotform.com/252313217116041. We have also attached a flyer.

We’d like as many people as possible to read and complete Survey 2. As before, for people with only a minute, they can just do Section A (tick the top 3 responses for the place plan). For people with five minutes, they can go through and just score each suggestion from 1 to 6. Or for people with more time they can open up the Full Action Plan for each and make detailed comments.  Please can you fill out the survey yourselves and send on the link and flyer to as many people as possible via your personal connections and mailing lists. We have asked around 200 local organisations to do the same, and we will be holding pop-up events around Leith over the next four weeks to publicise it. There are paper copies in Leith Library, MacDonald Road Library, Leith Community Centre, Duncan Place, Norton Park, and Heart of Newhaven Community.

Once we have closed the survey in October we’ll be able to see what there is support for us to include in the Place Plan, and we can then complete it based on that. If all goes to plan, we’ll have a document for you to review towards the end of October.

Kind regards,

Joanne McClelland

A4 Poster Flyer Survey 2