2018 Annual General Meeting

The 2018 Annual General Meeting, will be held in the Business Centre at the City Chambers on Thursday 22nd November 2018 at 7pm. The Agenda and papers will be available two weeks prior to the event.

There will be a presentation on the proposed Tram extension by Anturas Consulting.

The following Office Bearers were nominated: 

Chair - Eric Dobbie (Liberton Gilmerton) 
Vice-Chair - Allister McKillop (Currie) & John Tibbit (Leith Links)
Secretary - David Bewsey (Colinton)
Treasurer - Judy Wightman (Ratho & District) 
Edinburgh Partnership - Saty Kaur (Tollcross)

An election is therefore needed to fill the post of Vice-Chair. This will be held by secret ballot at the AGM. If a Community Council representative is unable to attend the AGM to vote in person, a vote can be submitted by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. stating the Community Council and the preferred candidate. If a vote is submitted by email then the Community Council will not be issued with a ballot paper at the AGM.

It is also important to ensure your nominated representative is correct. Their names have been added to the Members list.

During the coming year we want to encourage members to come forward with a view to taking on the role of Office Bearer.

Edinburgh 2015 City Vision

Share your views on a future vision for your city

Go to: https://www.edinburgh2050.com

Planning for Change, Delivering Services 2019-2023

This consultation commenced on 1st October 2018 and ends on 7th December 2018. The consulatation can be seen at https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/bi/change/

Eurocities Conference - November 2018

City of Edinburgh Council has just launched its Eurocities website - www.eurocities2018.eu

Edinburgh has been chosen to host the Eurocities Conference in November 2018, welcoming the Mayors and city delegations of the 130 Eurocities’ member cities, stretching right across Europe, both EU and non-EU countries.  This is only the third time in Eurocities’ 30 years’ history that the conference has been hosted in the UK, and it is of course taking place at a critical time in Europe.

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Shaping the future of your water and waste water services

Launched on February 28, the survey encourages our customers and stakeholders to help us determine priorities over the next 25 years.

Respondents are being asked to provide their views on three main ambitions:

  • Delivering consistently leading customer service
  • Keeping customer prices low
  • Increasing the reliability, resilience and sustainability of our services.

The six-month consultation draws to a close on August 31. To date more than 3,300 people have visited the consultation microsite www.yourwater.scot

The Shaping the Future consultation reaches the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston, Edinburgh in June.

Visitors will be able to watch a series of short films which tell the story of our ambitions for the next 25 years and give us their views. Anyone who completes the survey at the events will also be given a new-look Scottish Water refill bottle.

Further information on Shaping the Future can be found at www.yourwater.scot along with the chance to watch the videos and take part in the survey.

Planning and Building Standards Performance and Service Improvements

As emailed to all Edinburgh Community Councils:

A report on Performance and Service Improvements was placed before the Planning Committee on 14 March 2018. This report had a number of recommendations, some of which were accepted by the committee, some which were deleted by the Committee and some which were amended by the Committee. The key changes related to the current Scheme of Delegation which allows officers to determine planning applications on the Committee’s behalf. Here’s what was agreed by the Planning Committee (but see below as they are not the final decision-maker):

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EACC belongs to every Edinburgh Community Council

Its aim is to provide support, advise and give a collective voice for community councils when facing the challenges community councillors encounter on an almost daily basis. No one person is more important than any other. All community councils have a voice on the EACC!!