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Prestonfield Road and Priestfield Road Improvements
The Council is proposing to introduce street trees along both Priestfield Road and Prestonfield Road and resurface both roads in their entirety. New footway build-outs will also be introduced at various locations to provide greater footway space and reduce crossing widths. We’re also proposing to improve the rear entrance to Prestonfield Primary School, by widening the footways and closing a section of the road between Clearburn Road and Clearburn Gardens to all vehicles,... MoreClosed 20 October 2024 -
Short-Term Lets 2024
Since the introduction of a licensing scheme for short-term lets in October 2022, the Council has received over 4,000 applications. The Regulatory Committee agreed to review the short-term lets licensing policy in Edinburgh. As a result of the Civic Government Scotland Act 1982 (Licensing of Short Term Lets) Order 2022 being passed by the Scottish Parliament, local authorities in Scotland were required to introduce a mandatory licensing scheme for properties operating as... MoreClosed 14 October 2024 -
Meadowbank Sports Centre - Wall of Honour nominations
The search has begun for additional names to be added to the Wall of Honour at the Meadowbank Sports Centre. When the new Meadowbank Sport Centre opened in 2022 a space within the atrium in the building was reserved to honour members of the public who made significant contributions to Meadowbank’s past and legacy as a sport venue and community facility. Over 45 people were honoured in the original Wall of Honour, and included sporting heroes Chris Hoy, Lynsey Sharp,... MoreOpened 7 October 2024 -
2025/26 Council Housing Rent Consultation
Every year we ask tenants to give their views on the rent they pay. In February this year, councillors agreed to increase rent by 7% every year, for five years, starting in April 2024. This longer-term strategy will give tenants more certainty about the rent they pay and will help us to better plan our spending to improve homes and services. Now we’d like to hear from you on how you’d like your rent to be spent. The 2025/26 Council Housing Rent... MoreOpened 4 October 2024 -
Leith Connections: Hawthornvale to Seafield
Through our Leith Connections project, we are changing streets in Leith making it more comfortable for anyone walking, wheeling or cycling and creating new community spaces. The Local Development Plan (LDP) and City Plan 2030 have identified significant areas of new residential development in the Leith area. Related action programmes have been developed to look at what improvements are needed to existing infrastructure and what new infrastructure is needed to provide safe... MoreOpened 4 October 2024 -
Taxi Fare Review 2024 - proposed tariff
The City of Edinburgh Council reviews taxi fares every 18 months and must consult on any proposals to change the taxi fare tariff. The suggested new taxi tariff includes the following changes: increase of 9.5% across all tariffs (including the festive tariffs); and amend the airport pick-up and drop-off charges to allow up to £6, providing that this is no more than the actual amount charged . MoreOpened 4 October 2024 -
New Gilmerton Station Road Primary School
The Council is proposing the establishment of a new non-denominational primary school and nursery on a site in the Gilmerton Station Road housing development in South East Edinburgh. Your views will help inform the final decisions about the delivery of a new school and its catchment area. The catchment changes proposed affect Gilmerton Primary School, Liberton High School, and Gracemount High School. The consultation paper sets out the rationale for, and... MoreClosed 3 October 2024 -
New Granton Waterfront Primary School
The Council is proposing the establishment of a new non-denominational primary school and nursery in the Granton Waterfront Development area in the north of Edinburgh. A catchment area for the new school formed from sections of Pirniehall and Granton Primary Schools existing catchments is proposed. It is also proposed that the new primary school is aligned with Craigroyston Community High School. The catchment changes proposed also include a realignment of... MoreClosed 3 October 2024 -
Leavers pay award claim for 2024-2025
This form should only be completed by former Learning and Teaching employees of the City of Edinburgh Council who wish to claim payment of the retrospective National pay award (2024 to 2025). Local Authorities across Scotland have agreed to implement the 2024-2025 pay offer made by CoSLA which is effective from 1 August 2024. Details of the pay offer are available on our website . MoreOpened 2 October 2024 -
Survey: consultation on the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board draft strategic plan
We would like you to share your views on the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board's draft strategic plan More Good Days . The plan will set the direction of the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership for the next three y ears, and lay the foundations for health and social care provision in Edinburgh. Please take some time to read the plan. There is also an executive summary and easy read option. You can find all three documents below. Let us know what you think by... MoreClosed 30 September 2024 -
Edinburgh Future Libraries Strategy Consultation
Edinburgh Libraries are developing a new Future Libraries strategy and vision to enhance our services over the next five years, meeting the needs of our city's residents and adapting to changing public expectations, financial pressures, and technological advances. We carried out initial engagement activity earlier this year. The feedback gathered from this engagement period, along with our existing service data has helped us produce a draft Future Libraries Strategy 2024 – 2029. ... MoreOpened 25 September 2024 -
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 levy in their local area. These powers come from new laws in the Visitor Levy (Scotland) Act 2024. Cities around the world already have visitor levies. These cities include Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, New York, Kyoto and Dubai. If Edinburgh introduced such a levy, the money... MoreOpened 23 September 2024 -
Developer Contributions Supplementary Guidance
Planning has recently produced draft Supplementary Guidance on Infrastructure and Developer Contributions. It was approved for consultation by Planning Committee on 26 June 2024. Edinburgh is continuing to change and grow through new development and this is placing heavy demand on services and infrastructure. As the population rises, it is important that there is, for example, adequate education facilities, health services and travel infrastructure for people living and... MoreClosed 17 September 2024 -
Mòr-ionad Gàidhlig airson Dùn Èideann / Gaelic hub for Edinburgh
Os-shealladh Tha an suirbhidh seo ag amas air sgrùdadh a dhèanamh air na cothroman air ‘mòr-ionad’ Gàidhlig a stèidheachadh airson Dùn Èideann – àite sòisealta is cultarail far am b’ urrainn do luchd-labhairt is luchd-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig ann an Dùn Èideann tighinn còmhla airson diofar sheòrsaichean ghnìomhachdan is thachartasan Gàidhlig. Tha an suirbhidh seo ga chur air dòigh le Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann, buidheann carthannais a tha ag amas air... MoreClosed 16 September 2024 -
Community Payback Consultation 2024
We want to hear your views on Community Payback Orders (CPO). These are given out by the Court to people to pay for their crimes as an alternative to a prison sentence. In particular, we want to know what you think about the unpaid work part of a CPO, which replaced community service in 2011. This is when an individual who has committed an offence does unpaid work within the community. Do you have any experience of people doing unpaid work in... MoreClosed 9 September 2024 -
City Plan 2040 - Draft Participation Statement
This survey is asking you (or your organisation) on the best ways to keep you informed and to get you involved in City Plan 2040. Why Local Development Plans Matter We are at the very early stage of preparing City Plan 2040 which will be our next local development plan after City Plan 2030. A local development plan is an important planning document. It guides how Edinburgh changes and grows; and how we respond to key concerns such as providing... MoreClosed 31 August 2024 -
Firework Control Zones
We are considering putting in place Firework Control Zones in Edinburgh and we would like your views on this. A Firework Control Zone will mean that certain fireworks will no longer be permitted to be set off in these areas. It will also be a crime under the Fireworks and Pyrotechnics Act Scotland 2022 , enforceable by law, by which you can be arrested if you set off a firework in a Fireworks Control Zone. Read more about Firework Control Zones . To give us your views,... MoreClosed 23 August 2024 -
Community Councils Scheme and Boundary Review - phase 3
Community Councils are voluntary organisations set up by statute by the Local Authority to act on behalf of their areas. They are involved in a range of activities which promote and protect the well-being and identity of their communities; and help bring local people together to make things happen. They advise, petition, influence and advocate numerous causes and cases of concern on behalf of local communities. Edinburgh currently has 46 community council areas. All local authorities... MoreClosed 21 August 2024 -
Tenant Participation Strategy 2024 - 2027
It’s important that tenants feel able to influence and have a say on the housing services they receive. We want to understand how we can better support tenants’ participation in developing services and what opportunities or ways you would like to get involved. Our previous Tenant Participation Strategy (TPS) focused on four broad principles: Tenants know the different ways they can become involved Tenants can take part and... MoreClosed 17 August 2024 -
Taxi fare review 2024
The City of Edinburgh Council reviews taxi fares every 18 months and must consult on any proposals to change the taxi fare tariff. As part of this review, consultation is being undertaken with the taxi trade, public and stakeholders. This survey will take no more than five minutes to complete and we thank you for participating in our survey. This survey is only concerned with 'taxi' fares - these are the London style black cabs in Edinburgh - they can be hired by on street... MoreClosed 12 August 2024 -
Seafield Regeneration Stage 2 Engagement
The City of Edinburgh Council has identified Seafield as a potential site for housing-led redevelopment. The council have included the site in City Plan 2030 . The plan identifies the need for a masterplan to help unlock this potential. This is to ensure that there is a co-ordinated approach to creating a successful, sustainable new neighbourhood. The council appointed 7N Architects to create this masterplan. 7N have been working with the council and representatives of the local... MoreClosed 2 August 2024 -
West Edinburgh Placemaking Framework Amendments
The West Edinburgh Placemaking Framework and Strategic Masterplan covers the area along the A8 corridor, south of Edinburgh Airport. This will be a whole new area of Edinburgh with shops, schools, services, public transport, health care, parks, sports facilities – things that people need in their everyday life. The West Edinburgh Placemaking Framework and Strategic Masterplan will guide that new development. It went out for engagement in 2023 and the Framework... MoreClosed 1 August 2024 -
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Budget Engagement 2024
The City of Edinburgh Council wants to hear resident views on: Where we can save money; Where we are doing well; and Where we need to improve. Your feedback and suggestions will help us to develop proposals to balance our budget. They will also help Councillors to understand your needs and priorities when they make decisions about how to spend the city's budget. MoreClosed 28 July 2024 -
Keep the Faith - Representing Faith and Religion in Museums and Galleries Edinburgh (visitor survey)
Keep the Faith - Representing Faith and Religion in Museums and Galleries Edinburgh - is a new project recently launched by Museums and Galleries Edinburgh with the aim of expanding our faith collections to make them more representative of religious life across the city. We are asking our visitors to share their views on this and would love to hear your thoughts. Need a different language or format? Please email the Interpretation and Translation... MoreClosed 21 July 2024 -
Representing Faith and Religion in Museums and Galleries Edinburgh
Museums & Galleries Edinburgh is a collection of 13 venues and over 200 monuments across Edinburgh. Our vision is to inspire, enthuse and provoke through a shared passion for Edinburgh, Art and History. Our nine major visitor attractions are the City Art Centre; Lauriston Castle; Museum of Childhood; Museum of Edinburgh; Nelson Monument; People’s Story; Queensferry Museum; Scott Monument and Writers’ Museum. We house rich and varied collections relating to the historical and cultural... MoreClosed 21 July 2024 -
Connecting Granton Waterfront
The regeneration of Granton Waterfront is a residential led, mixed use development that includes: 3,500 mixed tenure homes; a new primary school; a new health centre; retail and leisure opportunities, that will link with new and existing cultural facilities; and business space. These will be tied together with high quality public realm and green spaces connecting new and existing communities to the wider city and Edinburgh’s Waterfront through active and... MoreClosed 16 July 2024 -
Dalry - Living Well Locally
The 'Dalry - Living Well Locally' project aims to improve Dalry and its town centre to make it greener, healthier and more thriving. Fig.1 Map of the project area Our ideas have been designed to make it easier to access local shops, schools, services and public transport, with wider pavements and better cycling provision. We also want to create a more attractive place to spend time, with trees, planting, public art and opportunities to rest. To... MoreClosed 26 June 2024 -
Physical Activity and Sport Strategy for Edinburgh
We would like to hear your views on the draft Physical Activity and Sport Strategy for Edinburgh. Our vision is to create an Edinburgh where everyone enjoys the benefits of an active life. Because we know that the more active we are, the healthier we become both physically and mentally, the stronger our communities and the more inclusive our city. The draft strategy aims to tackle inequality, promote inclusion and reduce health inequality. It is... MoreClosed 26 June 2024 -
Edinburgh's Local Housing Strategy
Edinburgh’s Local Housing Strategy will cover all tenures and types of housing and will set out the priorities for delivering housing and related services. It is a statutory requirement that local authorities produce a Local Housing Strategy. The City of Edinburgh Council’s Enabling and Partnerships Team are leading the research, development and monitoring of Edinburgh's Local Housing Strategy. Your views and feedback will be sought throughout 2024 and t he final... MoreClosed 14 June 2024
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