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The Edinburgh Community Safety Partnership, on behalf of its partners and stakeholders including the City of Edinburgh Council and Police Scotland, are looking to consult with residents and visitors of Edinburgh about their experience and opinions of Antisocial Behaviour in Edinburgh.

We want to know how antisocial behaviour affects you, what you think we should be doing about it and how you think we should be dealing with it over the next three years.

Your feedback will help shape our approach to tackling antisocial behaviour and will inform Edinburgh’s Antisocial Behaviour Strategy for 2016-19

https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/asb-strategy-2016

Volunteer Edinburgh unveils new HQ on Leith Walk

New premises to be opened by Edinburgh Lord Provost

The new headquarters for Volunteer Edinburgh will be officially opened by Edinburgh’s Lord Provost, Donald Wilson, with a ribbon-cutting to take place outside the building at 222 Leith Walk at 12.30pm on Tuesday 17 November 2015.

 Volunteer Edinburgh helps people find volunteering opportunities, and also finds volunteers for organisations that need them.  With one-in-four people in Edinburgh regularly volunteering, the organisation’s mission is to inspire even more people to get active and become involved in their communities, enhancing their lives, and the lives of others.

 In the last year, more than 65,000 visitors browsed volunteering opportunities on the organisation’s website, using a fully searchable database. More information about the organisation, including its 45-year history in the city, is available on its website at: www.volunteeredinburgh.org.uk.  

 222 Leith Walk has been a prominent landmark building on Leith Walk for more than 150 years. It has been a Victorian upholsterers and cabinetmakers, an Edwardian auction house, a billiards saloon and a pub. In 2001, it received an all-new façade and traded as an upmarket lighting shop for a number of years. The building was empty before Volunteer Edinburgh took it over. It has now undergone a major internal refit to make it a functional and welcoming place for people to come and find out about volunteering. In acquiring the building, Volunteer Edinburgh has not only established a great base from which to operate into the future, but it has secured this highly recognisable and much-loved building for the foreseeable future.

Hello Leith Links Residents
Please find attached an electronic copy of the 2015 LLRA Newsletter – and please do READ it – it’s short and very much to the point.

Remionder – the AGM of the LLRA will be held on Tuesday 24 November 2015 at 7pm in the Cricket Club on the north side of the East Links – a short meeting but a great chance to also meet some other local residents and have a drink and a chat.

We’ll be very happy to welcome both members and non/hopefully soon to become members. (It’s only £10 for life to join!)

A special plea to those who are members of the Cricket Club – PLEASE come on 24rth, as we need your membership in order to sign in others to the Club!

LLRA newsletter 2015

Hello

We have arranged a joint effort with the WoL Conservation Trust  on the Sunday 22nd November 2015 to clear the walkways of rubbish.

We hope you will come and join in to help to keep the walkways nice to walk and cycle along.

We are meeting as usual in Coalie Park – 1030am – 1pm, if you’re not sure were that is have a look at this map

http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=326613&Y=676475&A=Y&Z=106

Hope to see you there

Further to the upgrade of the Foot of the Walk junction layout, completed in June, MacLay Civil Engineering are to install inductive loop traffic detectors (vehicle detection loops) for the new signals at the junction. Whilst the junction is operating effectively, the installation of the loops will further improve this  by automatically adjusting the timings of the signal phases when necessary, depending on vehicle numbers.

 The addition of the detectors is scheduled to start on Monday 2 November and is expected to take around 3 to 4 days to complete depending on progress. Temporary traffic management arrangements will be in place during this period involving 4-way temporary lights incorporating the pedestrian crossings on all legs of the junction. This same arrangement was used earlier in the summer during the initial commissioning, for a short time, when a power supply problem prevented them from being switched on. Contractors will also use these upcoming arrangements to carry out work to a utilities chamber cover in the carriageway at the same time.

 Traffic management details:

·         Working times are to be from 0930hrs to 1530hrs each day

·         The temporary signals will be manually operated when they are in operation

·         The permanent signals will be in operation at all other times

·         Advance warning signage is to be erected a week in advance of the work commencing.

 The temporary arrangements will inevitably result in some disruption and longer waiting times at the junction over this time for some but the contractors will be looking to get the work completed as quickly as possible in order to ensure this is kept to a minimum. Stakeholders, however, may want to inform customers, delivery companies, family, or friends who will be travelling in the area during these days in advance so they can alter their journey planning if required.

The next meeting of Leith Links Community Council will take place on Monday, 26th October.

The meeting will start at 7pm in Leith Community Centre, New Kirkgate.

As always all welcome

LLCC Sept 2015 Minutes , AGENDA 261015

Leith Programme Phase 4 – Pilrig Street to McDonald Road – Draft Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) and Redetermination Order (RSO)

 As part of our regular update series, we would like to inform you that the draft TRO and RSO for the next phase of the Leith Programme, Pilrig Street to McDonald Road, will be formally advertised, a week today, on Tuesday 20 October. TROs set out all restrictions on a road including where yellow lines, parking places, and bus lanes are to be located, while RSOs designate areas of the street as carriageway, footway or cycle path.

As part of the ongoing Leith Programme, various changes will be proposed for this next section of the works including:

·         Changes to waiting, loading and stopping restrictions

           Changes to bus lanes and bus stops

·         Changes to disabled bays

·         Introducing segregated cycling facilities in both directions on Leith Walk

·         Storing communal domestic waste bins in dedicated spaces in lay-bys

·         Introducing a no entry restriction to Iona Street from Leith Walk (except for cyclists)

Introducing a number of 60 minute maximum stay parking bays and loading bays in Albert Street

 The Orders will be advertised in accordance with statutory requirements and details will be viewable on the Council’s website or in person at The City Chambers on the High Street. Over and above the statutory requirements, letters will also go out to all those in the immediately impacted section and surrounds to inform residents and businesses of the proposals. The period for submitting comments and/or objections will run for four weeks from Tuesday 20 October to Tuesday 17 November and full details of how to do this can be viewed on the Council’s website at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/trafficorders.

 We are aware that the draft TRO/RSO documents for Phase 4 were available in the public domain earlier today due to drafts being uploaded on our main website in advance of the formal advertising process. Due to the number of TROs our Transport Section deals with, this advance uploading is a normal procedure. Please be aware that these documents will not be fully visible on the Traffic Orders web page until Tuesday 20 October.

Our Harvest festival weekend with the Himalayan Centre and St James Scottish Episcopal Church on the 24th of October promises to be a wonderful celebration of this year’s harvest, with story-telling, a fermentation workshop and Nepalese Dance, held in St James Church Hall from 12-4pm. There will also be a service at St James church on Sunday the 25th of October to reflect on harvest time.
Leith Lunches will be holding workshops on 25th November and 11th December. Do get in touch if you are interested in booking a place.
We are looking for new board members at Crops in Pots, this would be a voluntary position which is a great opportunity to be involved in the direction and next stages of development of the charity, so people with legal, business or treasurer skills in particular would be a great help.

We are also excited to have an officially constituted Social Enterprise Subsidiary group of the charity, Honeycomb Leith. A team of volunteers is currently meeting monthly to take forward the social enterprise to support and hopefully ultimately sustain the work of the charity. They are in need of a treasurer, please get in touch if you are interested in this role.

As ever, everyone is welcome down on the Croft. Wednesday and Sunday afternoons in particular see people working together on the space, and we would love more people to sign up for the Croft Commons Committee for the upkeep of communal areas. Do come on down and find out what’s going on! Crofters also can be filling their plots with winter planting or green manure to help next growing season. We are also developing our new hot compost system which will give so much life to our crops. Get in touch to find out more about how to get the most from your soil and compost!

Welcome to £eith decides 2015/16!

 The Leith Neighbourhood Partnership and the £eith decides Steering Group are delighted to announce that this year £22,092 will be allocated to local projects chosen by local people.

 Applications for funding will be accepted from 24 October to 5pm 18 November 2015.  Voting on the projects will take place in late January and early February 2016, with applicants showcasing projects at a community event on Saturday 6 February, at the end of which the results will be announced.

If you are interested in applying, download an application form from our website atwww.edinburghnp.org.uk/leith or collect one from Leith Library or McDonald Road Library between these dates.

 Not sure if your group or project would be eligible?If you need some help or have any questions about £eith decides

·         come along to our information session at 11am on Saturday 24 October at McDonald Road Library (no need to book, just turn up)

·         or get in touch direct with Katie at leith.decides@edinburgh.gov.uk