Featured activities
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Trams from Granton to Edinburgh BioQuarter and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Beyond
We have been working on developing a business case to expand the tram network in Edinburgh. With a west to east route, from the Airport to Newhaven, now successfully running, we are proposing a north to south route. The route would run from Granton, through the city centre, out to the Edinburgh BioQuarter and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh via Cameron Toll, and potentially beyond into the city region. Your feedback will help us develop the next stage of the project which is the...
Closes 17 November 2025
Open activities
The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal – Integrated Regional Employability and Skills (IRES) Programme
The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal – Integrated Regional Employability and Skills (IRES) Programme is now co-producing a proposal for the next phase of delivery. ...
Trams from Granton to Edinburgh BioQuarter and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Beyond
We have been working on developing a business case to expand the tram network in Edinburgh. With a west to east route, from the Airport to Newhaven, now successfully running, we are proposing a...
2026/27 Housing Budget Consultation
Every year we ask tenants for their views on the rent they pay. In February 2024, Councillors agreed to increase rent by 7% every year, for five years, starting in April 2024. 2026/27 will be...
Corstorphine Connections Low Traffic Neighbourhood - Mailing List
You can sign up for project updates via the link below. We’ll then keep you informed of project progress and events relating to the project and its aims. The Council is delivering this Places...
West Edinburgh Link Mailing List
You can sign up for project updates via the link below. We’ll then keep you informed of progress, and events where you can speak directly to the delivery team and offer your views. The...
Meadows to George Street: Streets for People - Mailing List
You can sign up for project updates via the link below. We’ll then keep you informed of progress, and events where you can speak directly to the delivery team and offer your views. The...
Updates on recent activities
Walking, wheeling and cycling improvements in Currie
Local housing developments have provided contributions to improve access from these developments to Curriehill train station. The City of Edinburgh Council wants to make the most of these...
Seafield Place Brief and Masterplan Consultation
We have created a draft plan to transform Seafield into a new environmentally friendly neighbourhood. We want to know what you think of this plan. The plan includes: As many as 2,700...
Planning Guidance - Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
This document set out the Council’s expectations for work: to a listed building within the grounds of a listed building within a conservation area. ...
Planning Guidance - Edinburgh Design Guidance
This guidance sets out the Council’s expectations for design quality in development. It is structured around two themes: Sustainable Places Liveable Places It aims to promote...
Sustainable Procurement Strategy
The City of Edinburgh Council delivers much of the city’s services and construction through third party contractors. To guide all saving and spending decisions the city makes between 2025 and 2030...
Visitor Levy for Edinburgh
The City of Edinburgh Council is thinking about introducing a visitor levy. We want to hear your views on our draft scheme. Councils in Scotland have new powers to introduce a visitor...
Closed activities
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Consultation on the Social Care Charging Policy - Easy Read
The Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) is thinking about changing the way it charges people for services. This is because it does not have enough money in its budget to pay for the services it currently provides. We are looking at asking some people to pay more...
Closed 22 October 2025
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Consultation on the Social Care Charging Policy
The Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) are looking at making changes to the way we charge people for care that they receive. We want to hear from people who might be affected by these changes to understand how they will impact them before any decisions are made. No...
Closed 22 October 2025
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Queensferry: Builyeon Road new primary school and improved active travel connections
In September 2023, we asked people to give us their views on building a new primary and nursery school within the Builyeon Road development site in Queensferry. People were in favour of a new school and the prefered option was approved by Councillors in February 2024. Both the original consultation...
Closed 17 October 2025
We Asked, You Said, We Did
Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes. See all outcomes
We asked
We asked for your feedback on how the Council should adopt a Community Wealth Building approach and how we can collaborate with others on this work. We also asked for suggestions of what actions we should prioritise in relation to the five pillars of Community Wealth Building:
- spending
- employment
- land and property
- inclusive ownership
- finance.
We collected feedback through a variety of different methods including an online survey, in-person and online workshops, one to one conversations and a drop-in session.
You said
We received 20 responses from the Consultation Hub and engaged with over 55 individuals and organisations through other engagement methods.
The main themes from this engagement were:
1. Community Wealth Building
- The approach has the potential to deliver widespread benefits to Edinburgh and its residents.
- To achieve these, it must be implemented at scale and in partnership with all sectors and communities themselves.
- The Council needs to:
- build awareness about Community Wealth Building and recognise existing good practice across Edinburgh.
- be ambitious in its actions, set clear goals and show local leadership.
- measure and evidence the impact of Community Wealth Building.
- work in partnership and actively enable other stakeholders to implement Community Wealth Building.
2. Spending
To maximise the local impact of the Council’s spending power, the Council should prioritise:
- removing any barriers within the procurement process for small and local organisations and consortiums.
- providing clear communication in accessible language about future procurement opportunities and the procurement process.
- increasing spend with supported businesses (who promote the social and professional integration of disabled or disadvantaged persons and employ at least 30% of its workers from these groups).
- collecting and publishing more data on procurement such as the proportion of spend with third sector organisations, and the Fair Work practices of suppliers.
- look at learning from best practice in other areas and trialling different approaches to embedding Community Wealth Building principles into procurement.
3. Employment
To make sure that everyone can access, and progress within, fairly paid and secure employment, the Council should prioritise:
- showing local leadership and setting an example through our own employment practices.
- building awareness among employers and residents of what Fair Work means.
- exploring how to support residents to overcome barriers to finding and staying in work, particularly financial barriers such as childcare.
- making sure that the way that we design, contract and fund employability services enables partner organisations to support residents facing the most complex barriers.
4. Land and Property
To make sure that land and property meet community needs, and support community management and ownership of local assets, the Council should prioritise:
- making sure that repairs and maintenance work to Council properties are completed as quickly as possible.
- increasing the availability of affordable spaces for community and third sector organisations and local businesses through the planning system and our own estate.
- exploring opportunities to use community-owned spaces to run Council services.
5. Inclusive Ownership
To make sure that local businesses, enterprises and third sector organisations can thrive in the local economy, the Council should prioritise:
- growing awareness and understanding of different types of business models such as co-operatives and social enterprises.
- building trusting and respectful partnerships with third sector organisations and make sure that this sits at the heart of the Council’s culture.
- making sure that the third sector is adequately resourced and support capacity building.
- making sure that Council policies and processes do not have negative unintended consequences for local businesses and third sector organisations.
6. Finance
To support financial inclusion, strengthen community involvement in financial decision-making and ensure that wealth in the city is invested in local priorities, the Council should prioritise:
- supporting access to affordable credit and banking services.
- increasing access to financial support and education.
- adopting a more joined-up, long-term approach to grant funding.
- increasing community involvement in the Council’s financial decision-making.
- convening conversations with the financial sector in the city including pension funds, credit unions, high street banks and philanthropic organisations.
We did
We are currently updating The City of Edinburgh Council’s Community Wealth Building Plan in response to your feedback. The final draft of the plan will be taken to Policy and Sustainability Committee for approval.
We asked
We asked for your feedback on how the Council should adopt a Community Wealth Building approach and how we can collaborate with others on this work. We also asked for suggestions of what actions we should prioritise in relation to the five pillars of Community Wealth Building:
- spending
- employment
- land and property
- inclusive ownership
- finance.
We collected feedback through a variety of different methods including an online survey, in-person and online workshops, one to one conversations and a drop-in session.
You said
We received 20 responses from the Consultation Hub and engaged with over 55 individuals and organisations through other engagement methods.
The main themes from this engagement were:
1. Community Wealth Building
- The approach has the potential to deliver widespread benefits to Edinburgh and its residents.
- To achieve these, it must be implemented at scale and in partnership with all sectors and communities themselves.
- The Council needs to:
- build awareness about Community Wealth Building and recognise existing good practice across Edinburgh.
- be ambitious in its actions, set clear goals and show local leadership.
- measure and evidence the impact of Community Wealth Building.
- work in partnership and actively enable other stakeholders to implement Community Wealth Building.
2. Spending
To maximise the local impact of the Council’s spending power, the Council should prioritise:
- removing any barriers within the procurement process for small and local organisations and consortiums.
- providing clear communication in accessible language about future procurement opportunities and the procurement process.
- increasing spend with supported businesses (who promote the social and professional integration of disabled or disadvantaged persons and employ at least 30% of its workers from these groups).
- collecting and publishing more data on procurement such as the proportion of spend with third sector organisations, and the Fair Work practices of suppliers.
- look at learning from best practice in other areas and trialling different approaches to embedding Community Wealth Building principles into procurement.
3. Employment
To make sure that everyone can access, and progress within, fairly paid and secure employment, the Council should prioritise:
- showing local leadership and setting an example through our own employment practices.
- building awareness among employers and residents of what Fair Work means.
- exploring how to support residents to overcome barriers to finding and staying in work, particularly financial barriers such as childcare.
- making sure that the way that we design, contract and fund employability services enables partner organisations to support residents facing the most complex barriers.
4. Land and Property
To make sure that land and property meet community needs, and support community management and ownership of local assets, the Council should prioritise:
- making sure that repairs and maintenance work to Council properties are completed as quickly as possible.
- increasing the availability of affordable spaces for community and third sector organisations and local businesses through the planning system and our own estate.
- exploring opportunities to use community-owned spaces to run Council services.
5. Inclusive Ownership
To make sure that local businesses, enterprises and third sector organisations can thrive in the local economy, the Council should prioritise:
- growing awareness and understanding of different types of business models such as co-operatives and social enterprises.
- building trusting and respectful partnerships with third sector organisations and make sure that this sits at the heart of the Council’s culture.
- making sure that the third sector is adequately resourced and support capacity building.
- making sure that Council policies and processes do not have negative unintended consequences for local businesses and third sector organisations.
6. Finance
To support financial inclusion, strengthen community involvement in financial decision-making and ensure that wealth in the city is invested in local priorities, the Council should prioritise:
- supporting access to affordable credit and banking services.
- increasing access to financial support and education.
- adopting a more joined-up, long-term approach to grant funding.
- increasing community involvement in the Council’s financial decision-making.
- convening conversations with the financial sector in the city including pension funds, credit unions, high street banks and philanthropic organisations.
We did
We are currently updating The City of Edinburgh Council’s Community Wealth Building Plan in response to your feedback. The final draft of the plan will be taken to Policy and Sustainability Committee for approval.
We asked
Every year the City of Edinburgh Council’s justice services conducts a Community Payback consultation to gather the public’s views on Community Payback Orders (CPO) which are given by the Court to people as an alternative to a prison sentence, to pay for their crimes. We asked about the unpaid work part of a CPO; this is when an individual who has committed an offence does unpaid work in the community.
We asked about general awareness of CPOs and unpaid work.
We asked whether you thought unpaid work helped to reduce offending.
We asked whether you thought unpaid work gave people the opportunity to pay for their crimes.
We asked for your suggestions about community projects or organisations that could benefit from unpaid work.
You said
We received 54 responses for the 2025 consultation.
The majority of respondents (94%) were either fully or partly aware of CPOs, with 6% of respondents saying they had no awareness.
There was a very high level of awareness of unpaid work with 94% of respondents stating they were fully aware of unpaid work with the remaining 6% having partial awareness.
Respondents were less clear on whether community payback helped to reduce reoffending. For example, 63% were fully or partly confident that it did. However, 30% were unsure. 7% of respondents reported that they did not believe community payback reduced offending.
91% of respondents thought that community payback gave people who have committed offences the opportunity to pay for their crimes either fully or in part. 9% were unsure or disagreed, believing that unpaid work did not present the opportunity to pay back to the community for crimes committed.
Community payback as an option to support communities was popular with 69% of respondents stating that they thought unpaid work could be of benefit to them, their organisation, or their community.
Respondents were invited to make suggestions for how community payback could support their community. 89% put forward ideas for unpaid work, community projects, and organisations that could benefit from the service.
We did
The level of awareness of unpaid work and community payback is high amongst respondents to this consultation. However, it is clear that there is less confidence amongst respondents that community payback reduces reoffending. A short report on headline community justice data will be published on the Council’s website (community justice webpage) in January 2026. The report will consider and highlight relevant research in this area.
To continue to raise awareness of the value of community payback further, justice services will publish a Community Payback Annual Report on the Council’s website in Spring 2026 providing examples of unpaid work and how it has benefitted local communities. Justice services also plan to work with staff from the Council’s media team to share more good news stories of how unpaid work has improved communities.
All suggestions submitted for unpaid work projects will be passed to the unpaid work team for consideration.
Justice services would like to thank everyone who took part in the consultation.