Category: Leith Links Community Council
Events on and around the Links
Filming on Links Place / Links Gardens, Monday March 11
Filming for a new Netflix detective series (a Nordic noir type drama) is taking place on Monday 11th March. There is likely to be traffic disruption as roads are closed temporarily and equipment moved in and out of the area, as well as actual filming. Nearby neighbours will get a letter delivered nearer the time with more details. Others would just be wise to seek an alternative route that day. If you’re interested, here is the background to the series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_Q
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Music Encounters on the Links, March 2024
Provided by the Council, there will be some live music on the Links for all local residents and ‘ordinary’ park users to enjoy, free of charge, on Saturday 16th March, as follows:
11-13:00 set-up
13:00-13:30 Firelight Trio – European music including Swedish polskas, Scottish reels, French waltzes, toe-tapping klezmer and dazzling original tunes. www.firelighttrio.co.uk
13:40-14:10 Ché Caré – One of Edinburgh’s finest Latin Trios and house band at Boteco Do Brasil playing timeless pop classics from all around the globe with a Latin core and jazz-rock twist. https://www.instagram.com/checaretrio/
14:20-15:00 Tom Oakes Duo/Trio – 2019 Scots Trad Awards ‘Musician of the Year’ nominee, Edinburgh-based Tom is regarded as one of the UK’s top Flautists and Multi instrumentalists. www.tomoakesmusic.com
15:00-16:00 take down
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Leith Festival Gala Day
This traditional community event will be held on Saturday 8th June
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World Orienteering Championships 2024
This one off eventwill be held on and around the Links on Friday 12 July
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City of Edinburgh Council REFUSED permission for the proposed electronic music festival FLY Summer Of Love’92 to take place on the Links, in May 2024.
Last Chance – please fill in traffic survey!
Leith Links Community Council survey about traffic & parking changes in Leith
Low Traffic Neighbourhood? Road closures? Planters? Parking restrictions?
Have you filled in this survey yet? Please do so, to have your voice heard, regarding how your life as a local resident, is affected – positively and/or negatively – by all the recent changes to traffic and parking in our area. Timing is key, as some of the changes which were temporary (such as the ‘bus gate’ on Links Gardens / Links Place) are about to be made permanent unless people report that they are not working well.
Give your views via the Community Council survey here.
We are closing the survey on 4 March in order to give us time to collate and report the results, so this is the ‘final call’.
You can also make your views known direct to the council via this link, unti 8th April:
edinburgh.gov.uk/leithconnections
Next Meeting of Leith Links Community Council – ONLINE – 6:30pm Monday 26th February
The next meeting of the Leith Links Community Council will be held on Monday 26th February, at 6:30pm. This will be an ONLINE ONLY meeting (Teams).
Minutes of previous meeting available here.
The meeting is held in public,to allow interested local residents to participate.
Email contact@leithlinkscc.org.uk if you wish to attend, and you will be sent a link.
What’s happening in Leith Links?
Monday 26th February – next Leith Links Community Council meeting, 6:30pm. This will be an ONLINE ONLY meeting (TEAMS). Agenda available here.
Email contact@leithlinkscc.org.uk if you wish to attend, and you will be sent a link.
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£EITH CHOOSES Results night 22th February
The results of which local charities / community groups have been successsful in winning funding will be announced ‘live’ at 6:30 pm at Leith Community Centre (cafe area). All welcome, do come along to hear the news, and for refreshments and a chat. Short meeting.
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February – Leith Links Community Council survey about traffic and parking changes. Have you filled in this survey yet? Please do so, to have your voice heard, regarding how your life as a local resident, is affected – positively and/or negatively – by all the recent changes to traffic and parking in our area. Timing is key, as some of the changes which were temporary (such as the ‘bus gate’ on Links Gardens / Links Place) are about to be made permanent unless people report that they are not working well.
Give your views via the Community Council survey here
You can also make your views known direct to the council via this link:
edinburgh.gov.uk/leithconnections
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Events on the Links 2024
We have just been informed that the City of Edinburgh Council has REFUSED permission for the proposed event FLY Summer Of Love’92 to take place on the Links, in May 2024. This is good news, as the community council and many local residents had objected to the application, feeling that this particular large scale, long and very loud event and Leith Links, so close to residents, were not a good fit for each other.
Music Encounters March 2024
Provided by the Council, there will be some live music on the Links for all local residents and ‘ordinary’ park users to enjoy, free of charge, on Saturday 16th March, from 1300h to 1500h. More details to follow later.
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Events on the Links in 2024? YOUR views, please!
The Community Council has been informed of some applications to hold events on the Links this spring / summer, and we are seeking local residents’ views on these.
We have to respond to these proposals asap, as far as possible representing the views of the local community. At the moment, we are minded to object to one and approve of three others, as follows, but this is not ‘cast in stone’ and we could perhaps change our responses if local people feel strongly.
City of Edinburgh Council ‘Music Encounters’ – Saturday 16 March 2024 – LLCC currently minded to approve
FLY – Summer of Love ‘92 – 2 day weekend, May 2024 – LLCC currently minded to object
Leith Festival Gala Day – Saturday 8th June 2024 – LLCC currently minded to approve
World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2024 – Friday 12 July 2024 – LLCC currently minded to approve
Please can you use the comments below, or email us on contact@leithlinkscc.org.uk to make YOUR views known on each of these.
What’s happening this January / February?
Monday 29th January – Leith Links Community Council meeting, 6:30 in person at Duncan Place. Email contact@leithlinkscc.org.uk if you wish to attend.
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£EITH CHOOSES until 5th February
Even if you missed the in-person voting day event, if you haven’t done so already you can still vote once online, until 5th February, at https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/cf/leith-chooses-2024/
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January / February – Leith Links Community Council survey about traffic and parking changes. Have you filled in this survey yet? Be sure to do so, to have your voice heard, regarding how your life as a local resident, is affected – positively and/or negatively – by the new changes to traffic and parking in our area.
The recent closure of Lindsay Road due to possible building subsidence – and subsequent traffic mega congestion – shows how important it is to have alternatives to the main routes through Leith, or else everything comes to a halt. We have roads permanently blocked off because of the Low Traffic Neighbourhood, and other roads temporarily closed due to roadworks (Henderson Street, MacDonald Road, Great Junction Street next week and so it goes on…) which is ending up with even more traffic being pushed on to Commercial Street, Duke Street, Great Junction Street, Ferry Road
Give your views via the survey here
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Student Accommodation
There are several planning applications in the pipeline for new purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) in our area (Baltic Street / Constitution Street; Salamander Place / Street; Johns Lane; Manderston Street). This Community Council is objecting to all of these, mainly – broadly speaking – on the grounds that they offer tiny rooms, very expensive for students, not anywhere near any university, exempt from Council Tax, exempt from having to build affordable housing, and exempt from Section 75 payments (i.e. payments to the Council for local infrastrucutre such as transport, schools, health etc.) and not easily convertible at a later date to livable accommodation for other tenants. And that what this community actually most needs is affordable new homes for ordinary people / families who need to live near their work or want to live in their own community.
Very few planning applications at all are in currently for homes, by the way.
How do you feel about this? Do you agree with the Community Council’s position on this? (Comments below are open)
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Leith Links Community Council, Duncan Place, Monday 29th January, 6:30pm.
The next meeting of the Leith Links Community Council will be at Duncan Place on Monday 29th January at 6:30 pm.
Here are the Agenda January 2024 and previous November 2023 Minutes.
Please email contact@leithlinkscc.org.uk if you are a local resident and wish to attend.
Leith Local History Society, The Northern Light House Board
The next meeting of Leith Local History Society takes place on Tuesday, 16th January .
We meet in Leith Community Education Centre, New Kirgate at 7pm
Free to members and £2 for visitors.
This months event is a talk by Mike Bullock about he Northern Lighthouse Board who control and maintain all the lighthouses round the coast of Scotland.
You may have walked past their offices and control centre based in George Street and wondered about the flashing small lighthouse above the door,
I’m sure Mike’s talk will give an insight into the history and continued work of the Board.
Hope to see you there.
Have YOUR say on recent traffic changes around Leith – do it now!
Leith Links Community Council has created a survey to find out how the traffic changes recently introduced to Leith are affecting local people. We really want to hear from everybody – please fill it in!
You can access the survey here:
Please don’t delay, fill it in now. We will be collecting this information throughout January and February and will collate the information received and pass it on to the Council so that they have detailed information from real people who live and work here. The next few months are crucial. Not all of the changes are permanent yet – some, such as the bus gate on Links Place, and the blocking of Tolbooth Wynd, have been carried out on a ‘Temporary Traffic Regulation Order’, so feedback from local residents could help to determine whether or not they are made permanent, modified, or dropped.
Other changes are meant to be permanent, but if there is enough evidence to suggest they are not working well, there should be scope for them to be reviewed.
We’ve included both the low traffic neighbourhood and the controlled parking zone, because although these are the responsibility of 2 separate departments in the council, we know that both these schemes interact with each other in affecting our lives as local residents. Equally there is space for free text so you can add other comments.
Some people don’t bother with ‘consultations’ because they feel that the Council ‘always just does what it wants, whether people support it or not’. But this survey is different – it is NOT a Council consultation – we are your neighbours, and we WILL do our very best to use the information you supply to make the Council listen. The basic survey does not take long to complete, although there is scope within it to go into details about each different street, and specific changes, if you want to.
Thank you!
Oh, and, please pass the link on to your neighbours and ask them to fill it in too.
https://forms.gle/EinHqiXkak4hj6Ly7
or via QR code
