The parking situation at Kings Place has been a long running issue, often featuring on the community council agenda. Caravans and campervans are taking up many of the spaces, and City of Edinburgh Council proposed to introduce overnight parking restrictions, in an effort to tackle this; however this attracted a number of objections. The car […]
Minutes of the 368th Meeting of the Portobello Community Council held on 27th May 2019 PCC-368th-agreed-minutes-May-2019.pdf
Dear Community Council, I am writing to let you know that the City of Edinburgh Council’s Education, Children and Families Committee agreed on 16 August 2019 that a statutory consultation should be undertaken to relocate Newcraighall Primary School. The consultation commences today, Monday 26 August 2019. This consultation affects only Newcraighall Primary School as there […]
Dear All You have only a few hours left in which to take a couple of minutes to respond to the Portobello Community Council’s consultation on the future of Kings Place. It closes this coming Saturday- tomorrow – so please do make sure you fill it in before then, as it is a key part […]
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Please see the attached New Civic Licence Notice for a Street trader’s Licence for food and drinks in Straiton Place Park (map attached). Plans.pdf Civic-New-Licence-Notice.pdf
Dear All On the first day of the new school term this week, detailed planning consent was granted for the new Castlebrae Community High School building. The cash to build the new school is in the Council Capital Budget. The whole fabulous, sector-leading school community was fully involved in all aspects of the design […]
Dear All A month away in holiday is all very well, but I’m now back to the usual difficulties with changes to IT and 900 emails, which I am getting through very slowly as more come in on top of the pile. Thanks very much for the great support from our small team of […]
Further to on-going discussions taking place with the Council on the future of the Kings Place car park we are consulting on the BROAD options for the use of this space going forward. There have been no commitments from the Council to fund or deliver these options but in order to guide discussions we are […]
From: Erin MacPherson <Erin.MacPherson@edinburgh.gov.uk>Sent: Friday, 19 July 2019 11:15To: secretary@portobellocc.orgSubject: August Licensing Board List – Portobello Community Council Good morning, Please find below a list of premises that are due to be heard at the August Board that are in your community council area. Please get back to us by 7th August if […]
