Our updates on the programme to reconstruct Brighton Place with setts, over a 60 week closure, and bus diversions generated a lot of interest locally. We have arranged for representatives from City of Edinburgh Council and Lothian Buses to come along to the next Portobello Community Council meeting, this coming Monday 28 May from 7:30pm […]

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Bellfield will re-open its doors on Saturday 23rd June 2018 Bellfield Re-Opens 23rd June Dear Action Porty Members and Supporters, After much hard work to get Bellfield ready to re-open for community use, Action Porty is thrilled to announce an opening date for Bellfield of Saturday 23rd June, 2018.  We’re busy planning a celebratory opening […]

Please see attached a New Civic Site Notice for Wanderers Kneaded Street Trader Licence on Portobello Promenade. licensing@edinburgh.gov.uk   Wanderers Kneaded – “sourdough pizza, woodfired oven, an old-school food truck: the ultimate experience of an Independent, artisan pizzeria on wheels! events & catering” – https://www.facebook.com/wandererskneaded/   New-Civic-Site-Notice-.pdf

Dear All   As promised at our last Portobello/Craigmillar Neighbourhood Partnership Meeting, and reported in the latest Castlebrae Community High School’s bulletin, http://www.castlebrae.org.uk/frontpage/replacement-castlebrae-display-craigmillar-library/, there’s a small presentation of the work done so far on the architect’s plans for their replacement high school building. A small display is in Craigmillar Library until the end of May.  […]

The Council have provisionally given the following names to the new streets planned as part of the Baileyfield South development:- Adamslaw Place: Adam’s Law is a historic name for the land the development is being built on, as seen on a plan of Portobello from 1783 (copy attached). It was the source of the clay […]

Following the recent update on the programme to replace setts on Brighton Place Portobello Community Council have further information on the proposed bus diversion routes. These will see Portobello High Street without the service of the 21, 42 and 49 routes. The 69 route, which is intended to get people to Portobello High Street and […]

Dear All   Lots of people are asking: “What on Earth is going on at the much-loved pottery kilns at the foot of Bridge Street?!” If you recall, the top part of the 1908 kiln collapsed and had to be rebuilt with heritage brick and it looks fabulous.  An annual inspection of the1906 kiln showed […]

On 21 Feb 2018 an application to demolish the bulk of the George Cinema, 14 Bath St, while maintaining the façade, with multiple window intrusions, was refused by the City of Edinburgh Council. On 27 Apr 2018 the developers lodged an appeal with the Scottish Government Planning and Environmental Appeals Division; see: ·         https://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?ID=118631 ·         […]

Dear All   The next Figgate Park Clean Up is on Sunday 29 April , 9.30am-11.30am. The meeting point is the notice board near the pond, where the Figgate Friends team will be handing out litter pickers, bags and gloves. There’s tea, coffee and biscuits afterwards at the Air Training Corps (ATC) Hut beside the […]