New Town & Broughton Community Council

Agenda & Zoom link here

www.ntbcc.org.uk/ntbcc-full-agenda-monday-13-october-2025-and-conveners-reports-received-so-far/

Final agenda for the next NTBCC meeting (BY ZOOM) on Monday 13 October - starting at 7:00pm now available including the Zoom link.

Plenty of discussion items under transport, planning & the recent Culture & Communities Committee.

NTBCC full agenda Monday 9 September 2025 and conveners’ reports received so far This will be an in-person meeting in the Drummond Room at Broughton St Mary’s church, 12 Bellevue Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 6NE. It will take place on Monday 9 September, 7pm to 9pm. Convenors’…

Final agenda now available for the next NTBCC meeting (IN PERSON) on Monday 8 September - starting at 7:00pm in the Drummond Room, Broughton St Mary's church.

Please disregard ref. to Monday 9 Sept.

www.ntbcc.org.uk/ntbcc-full-agenda-monday-9-september-2025-and-conveners-reports-received-so-far/

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It's been raised by several others incl. jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social - but not too sure if there were any responses to the previous posts asking for information as to their disappearance.

Suggestions include either CCTV in the area (if not there already) or caging them in.....

Well, it seems that our prognosis of the chosen provider turned out to be correct....

The council says it is “working with Voi to establish a date when the public will be able to use the scheme as soon as possible."

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Help NTBCC highlight street-cleaning priorities The City of Edinburgh Council is running its Pride in Our City programme, providing an enhanced cleansing service on a ward-by-ward basis. NTBCC doesn’t carry out this work ourselves – it’s led by …

To support of Edinburgh Council's initiative to improve local neighbourhoods ('Pride in Our City') - we're gathering residents' views via a survey so that we can highlight any concerns / issues to the Council.
More details / survey 👇
www.ntbcc.org.uk/help-ntbcc-highlight-street-cleaning-priorities/

Sounds as if we should dust off a few of our previous submissions to proposals there (just in case).

It does seem slightly expensive if just used as a garage......

NTBCC full agenda Monday 11 August 2025 and conveners’ reports received so far This will be an online meeting via Zoom ( It will take place on Monday 11 August. (We’ll open the meeting around 6:45 so people can log in for the start of discussions.) Convenors’ repo…

Final agenda for August NTBCC meeting (BY ZOOM) on Monday 11 August at 7:00pm now available.

This includes the Zoom link & committee reports as available.

www.ntbcc.org.uk/ntbcc-full-agenda-monday-11-august-2025-and-conveners-reports-received-so

Seems the target is now "in the month of August" - nevertheless, it does seem a little rushed based on progress so far ?

(We'd also heard that Voi Cycles may be' in the frame', so to speak).

Application submitted for redevelopment & extension of office buildings on Thistle Street & Queen Street by Morgan Architects to create a 6,881 m² HQ for Royal London: citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/a...

This is an excellent thread......worth a read.

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NTBCC Annual General Meeting Agenda Published 2025 NTBCC Annual General Meeting – Monday 9 June 2025 This will be an in-person meeting in the Drummond Room at Broughton St. Mary’s Church on Bellevue Crescent. The meeting will start…

IN PERSON meeting agenda for NTBCC's AGM (incl. links to committee reports) & monthly meeting on Monday 9 June at 7:00pm.

2025 Engagement Report also posted separately.

www.ntbcc.org.uk/ntbcc-annual-general-meeting-agenda-published/
www.ntbcc.org.uk/ntbcc-monthly-meeting-agenda-published/

And now, the agenda:

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How a Community Council saved a local service In 2024, the New Town and Broughton Community Council (NTBCC) was alerted by a local Councillor that the City of Edinburgh Council was considering removing the number 13 bus service, which the Coun…

New website article
edinburghbususers.group/how-a-commun...
@longstonecc.bsky.social @merchistoncc.bsky.social @ntbcc.bsky.social @leithcentralcc.bsky.social

This is the Sainsbury's that's relocating from 9 St Andrew Square to the former Holland & Barrett premises on Princes St. - although seems it has been refused an alcohol licence.

www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/new-edinburgh-sainsburys-denied-permission-31080858

New town deputn speaker, Mike Birch

Leith LInks speaker

Start of written deputation LEITH LINKS COMMUNITY COUNCIL & LEITH HARBOUR & NEWHAVEN COMMUNITY COUNCIL WRITTEN DEPUTATION TO TRANSPORT & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE - 22 MAY 2025 Item 7.5 City Mobility Plan – Capital Investment Programme Prioritisation Outputs with specific reference to the Project ‘Leith Connection Phase 3 (LDPAP Hawthornevale to Seafield) This is joint submission from two Community Councils in Leith. We understand and accept the need to rationalise and set priorities for the Transport programme over coming years, but we have comments on the findings of this report, which we feel merits amendment. In Para 3.3, it is stated that “the CMP Implementation Plan is supported by four documents setting out delivery actions for Active Travel, Parking, Public Transport and Road Safety.” We find that the scoring and some of the decisions on Pausing or Proceeding in the report do not take adequate account of some of these, particularly as regards Public Transport. We also query the lack of transparency in the scoring process. And are unclear as to how the scoring deals with comparisons, in order to identify the best projects to deliver modal shift. To take a specific example – ‘on our patch’ – our two community councils, covering the coastal strip from Seafield to Granton, are unconvinced that the Leith Connections Phase 3 (Hawthornevale to Seafield cycle route) is correctly evaluated as qualifying to Proceed. We would recommend that it is instead moved to the Paused list. We are not anti Active Travel, and we support rather than oppose a cycle route through this area, but we find ourselves asking the following questions:

#Edinwebcast

#CityMobilityPlan

@ntbcc.bsky.social deputn:
wants cross-streets (Hanover etc) included with #GeorgeStreet & other central Ed projects

Leith Links CC deputn:
wants #Hawthornevale - #Seafield #cycleroute scrapped & redesigned

@edi.bike @leithfeederride.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social

NTBCC along with @edinburghbug.bsky.social & @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social have submitted deputations to the Transport & Env. Committee (item 7.5 – City Mobility Plan – Capital Investment Programme Prioritisation Outputs)
bit.ly/3SIQpym

NTBCC deputation 👇

🏛️ The Cockburn Association celebrates 150 years of protecting Edinburgh’s heritage.

📅 Their AGM is tonight – 20 May, 7pm at Binks Hall, Charteris Centre (EH8 9RR).

Still speaking up for our parks, places & public spaces.

#CockburnAssociation #Leith

www.cockburnassociation.org.uk

Six people sitting in the sun on the raised kerb outside Charlotte Square gardens

Quiet contemplation in the sun - seems a good spot for some benches ?

Hopefully you have plans in place for watering.....

Earth laid in front of the National Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh in preparation for returfing, 12 May 2025

CALL for VOLUNTEERS on Thursday morning (15 May)! We are laying new turf in front of the Calton Hill National Monument. New earth has already been prepared (see photo). Come along and join us! Contact <chair@caltonhilltrust.org> for more information.

Fab to speak to ~60 Edinburgh community cllrs tonight on the real change local democracy makes, highlighting some of the ways @leithcentralcc.bsky.social & @ntbcc.bsky.social stood up for NE Edin on Trams, Affordable Housing & #LeithChooses

Please do join yr CC:
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/community-pl...

Five things you need to know today Council's Traffic Regulation Orders Sub-Committee This committee meeting today has what looks like a lightweight agenda. but the New Town and Broughton Community Council would beg to differ. The community council has written an article on their website which is almost an open letter or a replacement for a deputation - since they are not able to make a deputation to this quasi-judicial meeting.

Five things you need to know today

Council's Traffic Regulation Orders Sub-Committee This committee meeting today has what looks like a lightweight agenda. but the New Town and Broughton Community Council would beg to differ. The community council has written an article on their website which is…

Agenda for May NTBCC Meeting Published The next meeting of the New Town and Broughton Community Council will take place on Monday 12 May 2025, starting at 7.00pm. This meeting will be held online on Zoom. The link for this meeting is as…

Final agenda & link now available for the May meeting to be held via ZOOM on Monday 12 May at the normal start time of 7:00pm.

This will include an update on the Dunard Centre project by Jo Buckley, Chief Executive, IMPACT Scotland.

www.ntbcc.org.uk/agenda-for-may-ntbcc-meeting-published/

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Agenda for Meeting of New Town and Broughton Community Council on 14 April 2025 The agenda for the next meeting of the New Town and Broughton Community Council on Monday 14 April 2025 at the Drummond Room, Broughton St Mary’s Church on Bellevue Crescent is shown below. P…

Draft agenda now available for the April IN PERSON meeting on Monday 14 April in Broughton St Mary's.

This will include arrangements for the new term of the community council following the recent election.

PLEASE NOTE starting time of 6:45pm.

bit.ly/3RdT7LA

Napier University Project looking at Increasing Community Council Engagement A group of students from Napier University are undertaking a project on behalf of the New Town and Broughton Community Council to look at how we might broaden our engagement with our local communit…

Napier University students are undertaking a project on behalf of NTBCC on how to broaden our engagement with the local community, especially younger residents.

A questionnaire to gather views is available below, please let them know your views and pass on the link to others.

bit.ly/42rkrva

Notice attached to tree guard advertising the Friends of King George V Park AGM

Date for the diary ?

The Friends of King George V Park are aiming to re-establish & are holding their AGM on Wednesday 23 April at 7:00pm in Broughton St Mary's Church.

Open to all, new friends & old.....

Is Edinburgh on the Road to Nowhere? The state of our city centre streets is regarded as the visual identification of a public domain in decline. Potholes have steadily risen as a topic of political debate, with the Starmer government hoping to address the "pothole plague" in its policy document The Plan for Change. Roads and pavements are part of a city's streetscape, the visual elements of a street, including the road, pavements and street furniture.

Is Edinburgh on the Road to Nowhere?

The state of our city centre streets is regarded as the visual identification of a public domain in decline. Potholes have steadily risen as a topic of political debate, with the Starmer government hoping to address the "pothole plague" in its policy document…