COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING - 12th November 2024

The next Colinton Community Council meeting
will be held in person
at 7:15 pm on Tuesday 12th November 2024
in Colinton Bowling Club, Redford Road

Please note the earlier than usual start time to allow for a presentation from Police Scotland on Crime Prevention

Although held in public, meetings of the Community Council are not public meetings.

To accommodate the Police presentation there will be no Open Session at this meeting, but there will be the usual opportunities for the public to contribute to agenda items where appropriate, and time specifically allocated for public questions and comments.

The Agenda and Papers for the meeting will be on the Minutes page of our website at www.colintoncc.org.uk.

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Correspondence with the Council Leader

Following a letter from the Council Leader regarding resources for Community Councils, Colinton CC has sent the following replay linked below.

Read the letter from Colinton CC below:
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.

Read more: Correspondence with the Council Leader

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