Community Council elections 2025
Community Council election timescales
The next Community Council elections process will commence in February 2025.
It is intended that the notice of election will be published on 5 February 2025.
Nominations will open for candidates who would like to stand for election as a Community Councillor from 6 February 2025. Nominations will close on 27 February 2025.
It is intended that where a poll is required an election will be held on 27 March 2025.
A new Community Council Scheme and Boundaries was approved by Council on 26 September 2024 and will take effect on the conclusion of the Community Council election process on 28 March 2025.
The new Community Council term will proceed from 28 March 2025 for four years with the next Community Council elections intended for 2029.
It should be noted that whilst all efforts will be made to maintain the four year term for Community Councils that timescales are indicative and subject to change if circumstances arise which affect the intended timescales of the Community Council term.
Correspondence with the Council Leader
Following a letter from the Council Leader regarding resources for Community Councils, Colinton CC has sent the following reply linked below.
Read the letter from Colinton CC below:
Dear Mr Day
Support for Community Councils
Thank you for your letter of 8 October and particularly the assurance in your last sentence that you value Community Councils (CCs) and the work we do.
Unfortunately, the technical provision of hybrid equipment misses the point. In Colinton CC, we have run alternate face-to-face and Zoom meetings for some time with very low take-up in terms of wider attendance from members of the public. To run a successful hybrid meeting requires the same level of human resource required to run one of your CEC Committee meetings. To expect this to happen with voluntary resource is unrealistic.
The voluntary time and effort required to run CCs is very precious and should be spent efficiently in co-ordinating local actions and achieving results that enhance local communities. This is what really would attract “a greater diversity of people to engage with local democracy.”
Instead, far too much time in a CC is taken up with basic administration and since contact with Council officers to achieve results is so difficult and time-consuming it is very challenging for voluntary community councillors to add any value to local democracy.
The support that CCs like us really need is for CEC to provide far more of the basic administrative support that keep our meetings running (in whatever format) and free up community councillors for meaningful local activities.
Latest Bridge Road Update LTIP Application by ColCC
ColCC has made an application to the Council’s newly introduced scheme, the Local Traffic Improvement Plan (LTIP) in respect of the improvements to Bridge Road which we have been pursuing for some time. Details of the Application with photographs and diagrams are available at the download link below.
Links to recent local publications
It has been suggested that website visitors might find the following links to local online publications helpful. These are the C & B News, Colinton Newsletter and Dell Directory
Other links to relevant websites are in our LINKS page
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