Category: Leith Links Community Council

Spring is here – more or less – and it’s time to clean up!

Please join us for a community litterpick on Leith Links this Saturday 18th March, from 10 am to 12. Even if you can only stay an hour or so, your help will be much appreciated.

Meet outside Duncan Place Community Hub on Duncan Place (just beside / behind Leith Primary School). Bring your own  litterpicker if you have one but if not, you will be loaned one by Drew at Duncan Place.

Bring friends and family along. Kids are very welcome.

It’ll be fun – litterpicking is actually surprisingly satisfying!

A Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) is coming to our area very soon.

Many local residents are asking for details of how exactly this will affect them and their neighbourhood. It has been very difficult for the Community Council to get any clear, accessible information from the Council.

At last we have been sent some information that we can share with you. This map shows where the zones are. Half of the Leith Links area is in the Leith Zone N8 (green) – due to become operational quite soon – and half is not. The grey areas called ‘monitoring’ areas will continue to have unrestricted free parking for the moment but may experience  ‘displaced parking’ from the green zone, hence the need for monitoring.

This is the Briefing Document outlines how the whole process will be implemented

Strategic Review of Parking – Phase 1 Briefing

This is the letter distributed to local residents.

Phase 1 Implementation – Letter 1

For more information, the Council directs enquirers to key web sites, which will be updated on an ongoing basis: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/parkingreview
This will include information about processes for applying for permits.

There is also information on the Council’s website, including information relating to
permits, charges and allowances, at  www.edinburgh.gov.uk/parking

Enquiries relating to the new zones and their implementation can be sent to
controlledparkingzone@edinburgh.gov.uk

Maps

To see an actual map of what specifically is planned for exactly where, is very difficult. The only maps we’ve been able to find have file sizes too big to upload to this site. You can explore them via this link; scroll down and look for ‘N8 (Leith)’ and ‘Map Tiles’ https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/15335/tro2103b-%E2%80%93-strategic-review-of-parking—phase-one

Health Warning – we can see that in some places the parking controls that are due to be installed are not all included on the map and instead are described in a ‘text based’ TRO – possibly relating to tramworks.  This means that the maps may not be accurately reflecting everything the Council proposes to do in the area.  We are asking the Council to provide clear consolidated map based information as soon as possible to avoid confusion and bring clarity to residents.

Since September 2022, the Coounity Council has been asking for a senior Council Officer from the Parking Operations team to come to a Community Council meeting to talk about the CPZ, but have repeatedly been told to wait until March, when all the information will be clearer. Well, it’s March. We’ve invited a speaker again. No response so far – we’ll keep you posted.

The next meeting of the Leith Links Community Council will be held on Monday 27 February 2023, at 6:30 pm.

Please note that this meeting will be LIVE and in-person, for the first time for a very long time. Hurrah! We will meet in Duncan Place, at No. 4 Duncan Place, beside the Links.

Agenda for 27 February 2023 is here. We are looking forward to a presentation from Jim Jarvie of the Friends of the Water of Leith Basin (FOWL.b)

Last month’s Minutes are here: Minutes of the Leith Links Community Council meeting 30 January 2023. Also the presentation by Scottish Water & Veolia re Seafield sewage plant.

As always, this meeting is open to interested members of the public. If you intend to come along in person, please email contact@leithlinkscc.org.uk so that we have an idea of numbers, for room booking purposes. If you wish to try and join remotely, also please email to let us know, and we will send out a link nearer the time.

Please note however that we do not have proper ‘broadcasting’ facilities, so we will be depending on a ‘swivelling laptop’ and possibly poor quality audio. This attempt at a ‘hybrid’ meeting is still somewhat at the experimental stage. If anyone has special knowledge of running such meetings, or has any relevant trechnical equipment to lend for this purpose, we’d like to hear from you, please!

If you have any items you wish to raise in discussion, please email these in in advance if possible.