The City of Edinburgh Council is looking to work with the community and business owners to explore improvements to the Pipe Lane toilets and surrounding area of the Promenade. The council’s “Community Wealth Building” process could include a commercial tender with a view to the successful bidders providing enhanced toilet provision and other facilities, including […]
Dear All, Council was in recess over Easter although the demands didn’t seem to be a lot different. I took a break from this regular self-imposed Update task, at least. It’s sometimes hard to stay positive, isn’t it? Portobello is a founder member of BEST – Better Edinburgh for Sustainable Travel. Very welcome as […]
UPDATE 2: There has now been an appeal for the hoarding North West of 1 Southfield Place UPDATE: both applications were refused. The following planning applications have been made, and representations can be made until 19 April: 21/01670/ADV: Advertisement of the following types: Hoarding. At Advertising Hoarding At North End Of Brighton Place 21/01697/ADV: […]
Portobello Community Council is arranging a hustings for the May 2021 Scottish Parliament elections where we shall have the candidates for Edinburgh Eastern. Bill Cook – Labour Ash Denham – SNP Graham Hutchison – Conservative and Unionist Party Jill Reilly – Liberal Democrats Due to current Covid restrictions this will be held online on Wednesday […]
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Dear All This week I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Jim Hurford’s self-published book on Life and other distractions around Portobello present and past in two hundred limericks with illustrations by Porty artists. As Roz Preston says on the back “…they weave together philosophy, gardening, human nature, sea slugs and twockers”. Sasha Udell says: “the […]
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At the Portobello Community Council meeting on 29th March it was agreed that we would collate any questions from the public about the licence application for a mobile sauna at the bottom of James Street to pass on to the proposer. For background see: www.portobellocc.org/pccpn/2021/03/22/civic-new-licence-notice-447316-mobile-wood-fired-sauna/ If you have any questions for the proposer please submit […]
In February Portobello Community Council ran a short consultation to ascertain feelings toward two proposals for bringing Portobello Town Hall back into use. The consultation attracted a reasonably limited number of responses – 143. A brief summary follows, along with full anonymised results attached. Peter Schaufuss People who commented in favour of this proposal are […]
Dear All Councillors been through an IT migration this week, which is always a traumatic experience but it went OK, so I am up and running again and no contacts or key files lost. I think. But I now can’t get Pages. And Word doesn’t seem to let me harvest and the copy links to […]
