Drum Brae/Gyle Residents Survey
If you live in Barntongate, Clermiston, Clerwood, Craigmount, Drum Brae, East Craigs, Forrester Park, North Gyle, Parkgrove, South Gyle or West Craigs we want to hear from you! What are your thoughts on traffic flow and the condition of roads and pavements in your...
Councillor Gardiner Meets Residents at Ratho Community Centre in Campaign for Better Bus Links
As issues with bus services to Ratho worsen following McGills' takeover of First East Scotland, Pentland Hills SNP Councillor Neil Gardiner has been leading the campaign for better bus links. He attended a meeting with Ratho bus users and senior transport officer from...
PETITION: SAVE OUR POST OFFICE
The Post Office at the Neuk on the west end of St. John's Road is set for closure on the 16th of January. Sign our petition here and let Senior Management and the Chairman of Post Office Ltd. know that Corstorphine wants a high street Post Office here!Residents were...
Corstorphine Residents Survey
If you live in Corstorphine we want to hear from you! What are your thoughts on traffic flow and the condition of roads and pavements? What can your Council representatives do to improve our parks and greenspaces? How do you feel the Council is performing with the...
Roseburn and Murrayfield Residents Survey
If you live in Roseburn or Murrayfield we want to hear from you! What are your thoughts on recent changes to the roads? What can your Council representatives do to improve our parks and greenspaces? How do you feel the Council is performing with the delivery of...
Labour Fails Edinburgh Veterans
Labour have embarrassed the City and let down veterans by failing to send a representative to the annual Contelmaison commemoration for the first time in 2022. The Somme battlefield memorial was created in 2004 to commemorate the soldiers of the Royal Scots, including...
Stop Bairdview Development Ratho
Sign Petition The development proposed is on 32 hectares of land stretching west from Baird Road to the EICA and is directly adjacent to Ratho Village Conservation Area. The land currently consists of arable farming, grazing and woodland. The fields are lined by...
The Tories are shifting further to the right, away from Scotland’s values
It was brilliant to see Glasgow voted 4th best city to visit in the world last week in an influential survey which helps people explore and experience the best places around the world. As well as 4th overall (Edinburgh was number 1), Time Out’s ‘World’s Best...
Pavements for Pedestrians: Keeping our streetscape clutter-free
We are all aware that pavement space is at a premium in Edinburgh. As a historic city, we have a challenge to make our pavements safer and more accessible to people who may be wheelchair users or pushing prams and buggies. The work to make our city more...
Last Stop for First Bus Routes in West Edinburgh
On 26 July a briefing was circulated to Councillors in West Edinburgh informing them that three supported bus services currently operated by First Bus will be ceasing from the end of August. These services are the 20 (Ratho to Chesser), the 63 (Queensferry to Balerno)...
Lib Dems Block Greenbelt Protections
At the June 30th Council Meeting the full contingent of Edinburgh Liberal Democrats voted, alongside Conservative and Labour members, to postpone the adoption of the City Plan 2030 until the end of the year despite SNP and Green members calling for the Plan to be...
Nicola Sturgeon’s full statement announcing the 2023 independence referendum
Read Nicola Sturgeon’s speech to the Scottish Parliament setting out Scotland’s path to next year’s planned independence referendum. Presiding Officer, The campaign to establish this Parliament was long and hard. It was rooted in the belief that self-government would...
Labour Make Deal With Lib Dems and Tories to Form Council
On 5 May 2022, the SNP got the strongest ever result in a local election. The SNP got by far the most votes, most seats, had the biggest number of gains of any party, and we are the largest party in the highest number of councils....