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The next meeting of Leith Links Community Council takes place on Monday, 25th January.

We meet in Leith Community Council, New Kirkgate at 7pm

If you live in the Leith Links area and want to find out more please come along or visit our

newFacebook page.

LLCC Nov 2015 doc (1), AGENDA 250116

The Scottish Government is reviewing the Strategic Police Priorities set under the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012.

 The first stage of this review is a broad discussion centred around the question ‘What are your priorities for your police service?’  They want to hear from members of the public, communities, local police scrutiny committees, and all those involved in issues connected to policing in Scotland about what is important to you.

Visit the website to take part, it is very user friendly.

As with most consultations, the more responses the better so please do share.

The consultation is open until 12 February 2016.

https://ideas.scotland.gov.uk/strategic-police-priorities

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Leith Links Community Council is now on Facebook … please like us and share!

Hello there! And a happy new year from us all at Crops and Pots. Just a wee reminder that our AGM is on Monday, 11th January, in the Constitution Bar at 7.30pm. All are welcome. It would be helpful for us to have some idea of numbers so do let us know if you are thinking of coming along.

Find out more at:

www.leithcommunitycropsinpots.com

£eith decides 2015/16

This is your chance to make the decisions about community projects that are looking for funding.

Voting opens on Saturday 6 February 2016 at 12.30pm at the launch event in Leith Community Centre. You’ll have until 3pm to speak to applicant organisations about their projects and the work they do in Leith, and then vote.

If you can’t make it along to the event, you’ll be able to see information about the projects and vote in Leith and McDonald Road libraries from 3pm Saturday 6 February until 5pm Tuesday 16 February. You can also print a voting form from the internet and send it to us.

Project information will also be listed here in early January 2016.

What is £eith decides?

£eith decides is an approach used by Leith Neighbourhood Partnership to allocate 50% of its Community Grants Fund.

This type of approach is called Participatory Budgeting (PB) and allows you to decide about issues that matter to you.  If you’re part of a local group you can put forward your own ideas, and then local people vote on them.  So it is more than asking people what they think – local people make the decisions.

Useful information:

Got a questions about PB or the £eith decides process? Check our FAQs or contact Katieleith.decides@edinburgh.gov.uk

You can also look at the evaluation reports from the last 5 years of £eith decides. You’ll get more detail here about who has applied, how many people have voted and which projects got funding.

Keep up to date on www.facebook.com/voteforleithdecides or follow us on Twitter @CityCentreLeith using #LeithNP and #LeithDecides

Thursday, 3rd December 4pm, New Kirkgate

The lights on the Leith Christmas Tree at the Kirkgate will be switched on by a lucky local school pupil.

If your in the area wrap up well and show your support by joining in the carol singing.

With a big thank you to all the organisers from Leith Festival, councillors, City Council and

Leith Links CC.

See message from Scottish Water below  regarding work starting at Seafield tomorrow. If you live in the area and have problems with offensive odours please phone City of Edinburgh Council on 200 2000

On behalf of Veolia, the operator of Seafield WWTW, Scottish Water, would like to notify stakeholders that the second phase of the planned annual inspection of the Thermal Hydrolysis plant at Seafield is scheduled to commence on Saturday 21st November and should take approximately one week to complete. This will involve a further partial shutdown of this plant. 

 Shutting down the Thermal Hydrolysis plant, either in whole or in part, to allow for an inspection does not increase the overall risk of odours being generated.  However, following issues with odour emissions due to increased sludge levels during the first partial shutdown of this plant in October, and drawing from the lessons learnt from that incident, Veolia has developed a series of additional measures to manage the overall treatment process which will be constantly monitored whilst this inspection work is undertaken.

In addition, a series of contingency actions have also been developed to deal with any unforeseen problems which may occur during this second partial shutdown. These actions are primarily aimed at ensuring that sludge levels throughout the treatment process are kept to a minimum. Increased sludge levels resulted in the heightened levels of odour emissions during and following the previous partial shutdown in October.

 Prior to formalising this plan all aspects of these procedures and proposed contingency actions were discussed at a joint meeting attended by Veolia, Scottish Water, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the City of Edinburgh Council.

Put this in your diary for December and give Customer House your support.

If you’ve not had the opportunity to look inside it’s well worth it.

Custom House is going to be opening its doors once again on the 12^th December and shall be hosting a Christmas Market – part of the 24 Doors of Advent.

www.edinburghschristmas.com/blog/24-doors-of-advent

If you would like to host a stall at the event to spread the word about your work?

We’ll give you the stand for free of course but if you could help us find makers and producers who would like to hire a stall for the day that would be fantastic.

Contact

Rachel Connolly

Audience Development Officer | Scottish Historic Buildings Trust

Riddle’s Court | 322 Lawnmarket | Edinburgh | EH1 2PG

Tel: 0131 220 7473 | Email: marketing@shbt.org.uk