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Leith Custom House Open Day

Scottish Historic Buildings’ Preservation Trust (SHBT) is leasing the Leith Custom House for an initial five year period, during which time they will be carrying out a feasibility study into the use of the building as a cultural/heritage hub for Leith.

This process will involve consultation with the community and promises to be a very exciting project. SHBT is very keen to give the public an opportunity to visit the building at the earliest opportunity and begin to bring it back to life. As a result it will be open to the public on Sunday 14th June from 10.00am until 4.00pm. All are very welcome.

In addition they would like to hear from any Leith organisations who would like to use the occasion to take a table and promote what they do.
To find out more please contact info@shbt.org.uk

 

Leith Programme Stakeholder Update

Leith Programme Stakeholder Update 72

 Foot of the Walk junction works

 Paving Works

The main footway resurfacing on Leith Walk, Duke Street, Great Junction Street is now largely completed.

The remaining slabbing works will continue in front of Kirkgate shopping centre with the new trees now having been installed.

Carriageway Resurfacing

Carriageway resurfacing has been completed in Duke Street, Leith Walk and Constitution Street and is now ongoing in Great Junction Street.

The contractors are currently working on the sequencing of the surfacing works on the main junction area in order to minimise disruption to traffic flow with some potential evening hours working under consideration

Anti-skid surfacing and the installation of new road markings has commenced on Leith Walk around the Kirk Street junction

 Bus diversion and general traffic conditions information:

Should additional temporary diversions be required during the main junction resurfacing, details regarding these and other traffic conditions affecting Leith Walk will be published on the sites below:

https://twitter.com/on_lothianbuses

 https://twitter.com/edintravel

 Anticipated completion

The contractors anticipate that the works will largely be completed by the end of May and, all things going to schedule, are targeting the week commencing 1 June to see the junction commissioned.    

 Pilrig Street to McDonald Road – Drop-in Information session

A design proposal for this section has been developed and the draft plans can be viewed on the Council website. We are holding an informal drop-in session from 4.00pm to 8.00pm on Thursday 11 June in the Nelson Hall in McDonald Road library where copies of these draft designs will be available to view. Council Officers will also be available to hear from local people and discuss the proposals. Anyone is welcome to drop in at any point during the session. The statutory consultation on the proposed designs will begin later in June.

 

Himalayan Centre Climate Change Hub

My name is Victoria and I coordinate the Himalayan Centre for Arts & Culture’s Home Visits that are part of the Centre’s Climate Change Hub project.I’m writing to you with the hopes you could help me promote a project focused on the Leith are.

The Himalayan Centre is currently offering free House Visits that aim to help households become more environmentally friendly by reducing the amount of energy they use at home.
They entail a quick energy audit to identify the main areas of improvement, and we provide practical tips on how to go about doing this. We also help people determine if they’re eligible for grants and schemes to help towards the costs of any changes. All the visits are free, carried out by trained volunteers and members of staff and are free and open to anyone living in Leith.
Below is a digital flyer with more information; it would be ace if you could share it amongst your network of contacts, add it to a newsletter, social media, etc. I’m pretty sure that the Leith Links Community Council can successfully help us spread the word about this project, and I also believe that people in the area would appreciate help and advice in reducing their individual carbon footprint.
In our last project we managed to help households save a total of 62 tonnes of CO2 emissions- the equivalent of 372 double decker buses! This year we’re hoping to save even more, so it would be great if you could help us promote this exciting project by sharing it with anyone you think might be interested.
All the best,
Victoria

Victoria Lanata Briones
Project Worker
Himalayan Centre for Arts & Culture

Venue Address:
121 Great Junction Street
Leith
Edinburgh
EH6 5JB

Postal Address:
c/o The Melting Pot
5 Rose Street
Edinburgh
EH2 2PR

M: 07851 802002
E: victoria@himalayancentre.org
www.himalayancentre.org

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LEITH LINKS COMMUNITY COUNCIL AGM, 25TH MAY

Leith Links CC AGM will take place on Monday, 25th May.

7pm Leith Community Centre

The Agenda and minutes of the 2014 AGM will be circulated soon.

Our guest speaker, Lindsay Grant from City of Edinburgh Council will give  a prsentation on Edinburgh Living Landscape

 

Living Streets

Making Edinburgh Fit For Walking

Monday 1st June, 18.00 to 20.00 on at the Quaker Meeting House 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh.

Dear Supporter

You are warmly invited to the launch event of our Edinburgh supporters’ group to discuss and perhaps get involved in making Edinburgh fit for walking on the 1st of June 2015 at the Friends meeting House, Victoria Street, Edinburgh. Doors open 17.45

We’re virtually all walkers – and in many ways Edinburgh is great city to walk in. But motor traffic continues to dominate the vast majority of the city’s streets, and pedestrians have languished at the bottom of transport priorities for far too long.

  Living Streets’ Edinburgh local group is being formally launched to make the case for the enormous economic, environmental and social benefits of prioritising walking within a high-quality public realm in the capital. Come along to hear about what Living Streets stands for, how walking fits into a civilised public realm, and about the local group’s plans for an exciting late summer campaign of street audits. This is your opportunity to get involved and help us press the City of Edinburgh Council to transform its many sensible walking-related policies into practical improvements on our streets. Please join us for a discussion and debate on the way forward with the following speakers:

 Standing Up for Walkers, David Spaven, Convener of the Living Streets Edinburgh Group

  • A Better Public Realm, Marion Williams, Director of the Cockburn Association (Edinburgh’s Civic Trust)
  • Auditing Edinburgh’s Streets, Stuart Hay, Director of Living Streets Scotland

The meeting room will be open from 17.45, with tea, coffee and biscuits available. There will be opportunities to tell us what you think about walking in Edinburgh generally and in your own locality – and to help shape our late summer campaign.

   If you need any more information, please Contact David Spaven Tel: 0131 447 7764 Email: david@deltix.co.uk. Twiter: (@LivingStreetsEd) | Web:http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/local-group/edinburgh-living-streets-group

   Don’t miss this opportunity to help make Edinburgh a European exemplar of a pedestrian-friendly city!

 Thank you,

David Spaven,

Chair, Edinburgh Living Streets local group
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Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group Seminar 10th June

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry

The Edinburgh Tram Inquiry is currently retrieving and reviewing documents, and gathering further material as part of the investigation into the Edinburgh Trams project. As part of that process the Inquiry is now keen to hear from the public on two themes:
1.      What issues should the Inquiry be investigating in detail?
2.      What direct evidence does the public have on the consequences of the failure to deliver the project in the time, within the budget and to the extent projected?
Further details and an online survey is available via the websitewww.edinburghtraminquiry.org or by contacting the Secretary to the Inquiry.
The deadline for responses is 4 August 2015.
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