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The CEC Scheme of Delegation , setting the authorities of the Chief Planning Officer (inter alia), on behalf of Councillors, in reviewing planning applications, has been revised. See: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/planning-decisions-2/scheme-delegation . The revision is effective from 2 February. Go to Planning & Place for more detail.

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The Council advises that resident groups, community councils and other community groups should apply by 24 April if they wish their neighbourhood to be a Firework Control Zone. FCZs are for private spaces, gardens or land managed by a community centre management committee. FCZs limit using fireworks on that land for a specific period of time. (Fireworks displays on public spaces are covered by different legislation.) Apply online www.edinburgh.gov.uk/firework-control-zones

Planning appeals (in respect of PBSA developments) to Scot Gov Planning and Environmental Appeals Division (DPEA) dismissed. See https://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseSearch.aspx?T=1 .

CEC has in place a new School Travel Audit and School Travel Plan Process to help schools with the build and delivery of bespoke plans for individual schools. You can view the summary of a recent review of the procedure here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IuCkYsE3EbLjx7GgLL2cA-sc3jRpHKec/view?usp=sharing

Parent Councils and School Staff Members are expressly invited to participate. Contact mailto:transport.roadsafety@edinburgh.gov.uk (Marc Symonds) for more information in the first instance.

ETF meets with CEC’s Homelessness and Household Support Team to discuss the Council’s Local Housing Strategy and the Housing Emergency Action Plan. This is on Thursday, 26 February , 6.00pm to 8.00pm at Norton Park Conference Centre, 57 Albion Road, EH7 5QY. On Tuesday, 10 March , at the same venue, 2.30pm to 4.00pm, ETF invites all tenants to meet to discuss current housing issues. This is in advance of a Wednesday, 8 April meeting with Elected Councillors on the same theme. Tenants are invited to join those latter two events. In the first instance, contact info@edinburghtenants.org.uk or call 0131 475 2509 to register your attendance.

works to hold the City Council to its commitment that, ‘Pedestrians are at the top of the urban transport hierarchy’. The Council’s next Local Development Plan, City Plan 2040 , due for publication in 2028, hopes to showcase a series of Local Place Plans, neighbourhood ideas for urban improvement. Living Streets Edinburgh sees more pedestrian crossings and dropped kerbs, and less through-traffic, as local ideas worth pursuing.

You can join Living Streets Edinburgh on Monday 23 February (3-4pm ) to learn more, in the company of Anna Grant from Edinburgh Council, and Joanna McClelland, a practising architect from Leith. Register for this Zoom online meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2aMsXeLtQBaNHa88iwhIiA#/registration

CEC has commenced its regular (every 18 months) review of taxi fares and has opened (3 Feb) a public consultation with the taxi trade, the public and stakeholders. The consultation covers ‘black cabs’ only. It closes on 20 Feb. You can access it here. https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/taxi-fare-review-2026/

Based in Glasgow, the Community Renewal Trust looks to “listen, connect people to the support they need, build on strengths and stick with them as long as it takes…. sharing learning which will rethink how Scotland can end persistent poverty and inequity”. It works in several Edinburgh communities. ( http://www.communityrenewal.org.uk/ )

Community Renewal Consultancy and Training Ltd has been commissioned to undertake research into community spaces, assets and services to get a better understanding of the resources accessible to the residents of the city. “We would like to invite input into a survey of local community spaces (not local CEC owned community centres) to inform our research.”

“Community Renewal Consultancy and Training Ltd will conclude (the) research by using the data collated through surveys and field research to create a report that analyses the spaces and services across the cities localities.”

Contact information John Hawryluk | Senior Social Impact Consultant | john.hawryluk@communityrenewal.org.uk

Here are the survey links.

Spaces – https://forms.office.com/e/MHbEtPLvss

Services – https://forms.office.com/e/BS8LHY5Uf8

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has launched a public consultation to identify and assess local flooding concerns across the country. The results will help shape SEPA’s Flood Risk Management Plans (FRMP) 2028-2034, due for publication in December 2027

. Communities are being invited to share their main flooding concerns and to highlight projects, initiatives or actions already helping to manage flood risk. “This consultation is about listening to communities and learning from local experience.” Find out more about this critically important programme here: https://consultation.sepa.org.uk/evidence-and-flooding/frmp-phase-1-consultation/ The risks in this locality may be limited, but risks there are. Take a little time to see what SEPA have to say. The survey runs until 22 April.