Bruce Keith joins us again for his talk, Scotland Beneath the Surface
Everything underground! Souterrains, manmade tunnels from castles and for roads and railways, pumped storage schemes, mines for coal and shale, quarries and more…
The talk is at Leith Community Education Centre, New Kirkgate, Leith (up the stair from the shops) on Tuesday 19 March 2024, at 7.00 pm. Admission is £2∙00, or free for members
In partnership with our friends at Duncan Place Community Hub, Leith Links Community Council is organising a community litterpick on Leith Links on Saturday 27th April, from 10am until 12 noon
Please do join us! All are welcome! Adults and children!
Litterpicking – believe it or not – is strangely enjoyable and satisfying.
Litterpickers and bags will be provided but please bring your own work gloves.
Meet outside 4 Duncan Place (next to the school) at 10am on 27th.
Short Term Lets within the Leith area are regularly discussed, and now the City of Edinburgh Council is asking citizens to feed into their consultation on how their local licensing system will operate in Leith / Edinburgh.
Have your say today.
Duncan Place are hosting a litter pick of Leith Links on Friday 22 April 2022 from 10am until 12noon. 
After the litter pick you’ll get a cuppa and a chance to pot your own lavender plant.
More information is on their Facebook page which you can go to by clicking here.
If you have any questions, contact Drew at drew.bain@duncanplace.org
We have been informed this week by City of Edinburgh Council that an application has been made for a Street Traders Licence in relation to a food & drinks unit on Leith Links.
Any person can make a representation with regards to the application but they must present that to City of Edinburgh Council by 3 May 2022. Leith Links Community Council will be submitting a representation, and should you have any comments which you feel should be considered as part of that representation please let us know in the comments area below. Please avoid only writing that you support or object to the application, please tell us why you object or support etc in the comments section below.
Below is a map of the location, and the formal notice of the application being considered.
Please note that we have published all the information relating to the application that we have been provided with.
We are hosting an online hustings on Tuesday 26 April 2022 from 18:30 on Zoom.
This is an opportunity for you to ask questions of the candidates and hear their responses, which may help you to get to know them a little better and perhaps help you decide on your voting intention.
All candidates have been invited to attend, the candidates standing in this election are;
The hustings will be chaired by Jim Scanlon MBE, Chairperson of Leith Links Community Council.
We expect all participants to conduct themselves in a dignified manner being respectful to all those participating. The Chairperson has the authority, if required, to remove any persons from the meeting.
When booking a ticket please note that the Zoom link will be sent to you on Tuesday 26 April 2022 between 12noon & 5pm. Please be sure to check your inbox and your spam/junk folders.
Questions can be asked in advance by being added to the comments section below.
Four organisations are working together to develop part of Leith Links as an arboretum, with work already having began some weeks ago when planting of the arboretum began at the Seafield end of the links.
City of Edinburgh Council, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspaces Trust are working together to develop the arboretum on Leith Links, with some funding provided by The Mushroom Trust.
An arboretum is a specially designed area of different types of trees for scientific, educational and ornamental purposes. Eighty four trees are planned for the Leith Links arboretum.
We are encouraging citizens with an interest in Leith Links to take part in the consultation, and to make their views known.
Citizens may also leave comments below for the Community Councils information, and they may also wish to email Councillors Booth, McVey and Munro who represent Leith Ward 13.
Leith Links Community Council is inviting local interest groups to become members of our Community Council. We have up to six places available for local interest groups who can join us to represent the interests of their community organisation.
So if your organisation has an interest in the Leith Links area then please do think about joining us & working with us to make the Leith Links area an even better place for everyones benefit.
If your organisation would like to join us please email community.councils@edinburgh.gov.uk.
It is worth noting that organisations can sit on as many Community Councils as relate to their area of work. And that our neighbouring Community Councils all have vacancies for local interest groups.
With the Scottish Parliament election campaign well underway there are two hustings which we are promoting for those who live in the Leith Links Community Council area.
If you are not sure which consistency you live in you can find out by typing your postcode into the Scottish Parliament website by clicking here.
Edinburgh Northern and Leith – The Broughton Spurtle have organised a hustings which is being held on Tuesday 20 April 2021. Click here for more information.
Edinburgh Eastern – Portobello Community Council have organised a hustings which is being held on Wednesday 28 April 2021. Click here for more information.
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