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SUMMARY:GPCC Meeting - May 2026
DESCRIPTION:Agenda\nAGENDA FOR ORDINARY BUSINESS MEETING ON WEDNESDAY 20 MA
 Y 2026 AT 18.45.\nVENUE: CAMERON HOUSE COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTRE\n34 PRES
 TONFIELD AVENUE\, EH16 5EU.\nIssued on 11 May 2026. This meeting will be h
 eld in public.\n1 Audio or video recording of meeting.\n2 Record of member
 ship present\, apologies received\, and other attendees\n3 Declarations of
  interest.\n4 Adopt Report of Meeting of 15 April 2026: See GPCC website f
 ront page.\n5 Matters arising not covered by Agenda.\n6 External Reports: 
 6.1 Ward Councillor.\n7 GPCC Reports:\n7.1 Action Points arising from prev
 ious Meeting: See Appendix 1\n7.2 Planning (IW): ① Quick Guide\n7.3 Lice
 nsing: ② Vape Shops\n7.4 Police Reports: ③ Speeding\n7.5 Roads and Tra
 nsport (NK): ④ Parking CPZ S8 ⑤ Living Streets\n7.6 Engagement Program
 me (CS): ‘GPCC and You’\; see website.\n7.7 Website Development Plan (
 HM): ⑥\n7.8 Neighbouring Community Councils (SG):\n8 Reports from Office
  Bearers:\n8.1 Chair: ⑦ Library Noticeboard ⑧ Community Grants Fund\n8
 .2 Treasurer:\n8.3 Secretary: ⑨ Reid Memorial\n9 Reports from Outside Gr
 oups: Newington Cemetery (ERJ)\; EACC (KR) ⑩ LDP ‘Call for Ideas’ 
 ⑪ Edinburgh Partnership Local Outcome Improvement Plan (LOIP)\n⑫ Commu
 nity Municipal Investment Plan\n10 Other Business:\n11 Date of future meet
 ings: Wednesday at 18.45: 17 Jun\, 16 Sep\, 21 Oct\, 18 Nov\,\n12 At 20.00
 : GPCC Annual General Meeting\, May 2026: See separate AGM Document Pack.\
 nFollow-up Points from 21 Jan 2026 Meeting\n7.9 Edinburgh University Campu
 s Security response (ERJ) FURTHER ENQUIRY O/S. CLOSE?\nFollow-up Points fr
 om 15 Apr Mar Meeting\n6.2: Cllr. Flannery query to the Council’s Librar
 ies Division. ONLINE SERVICE RESUMED. CLOSE\n7.6: Help wanted to promote G
 PCC at the Grange Fair. CLOSE\n8.3: Member to lead on GPCC Community Grant
  Fund and Participatory Budgeting work. OPEN\n① ‘Responding to a Plann
 ing Application’: 3-page quick guide added to website.\n② Vape Shops a
  Trading Standards rather than Licensing or Planning matter\; See website 
 Rolling Update 29 April.\n③ Fairmilehead CC has been invited by a local 
 Community Police Officer to consider volunteer participation in an organis
 ed and official ‘Community Speedwatch’ programme in the South West loc
 ality. What conceivable appetite here? (No official approach.)\n④ CPZ S8
  proposals not tabled at the 12 May TRO Sub-Committee.\n⑤ Living Streets
 : Anything relevant to report?\n⑥ Basic WordPress structure in place. Co
 ntent migration in its early stages. Testing thereafter. Completion expect
 ed in August. (HM)\n⑦ Head Librarian permission granted to site a GPCC w
 all board within the main library at the ‘public desk’ area.\n⑧ Comm
 unity Grants Fund – Who completed the CGF Survey? How will GPCC seek / e
 nsure involvement? Participatory Budgeting (on Visitor Levy proceeds) is i
 ntended to be embedded in CC work. How does GPCC prepare to play its part?
 \n⑨ Reid Memorial: Church of Scotland sale looks more likely.\n⑩ Local
  Development Plan ‘Call for Ideas’: See 28 May EACC meeting agenda. An
 ticipate how GPCC can participate.\n⑪ Edinburgh Partnership Local Outcom
 e Improvement Plan: 2026 Refresh: See website.\n⑫ Community Municipal In
 vestment Plan: See website.\n\nMinutes\nPrepared: 21 May 2026.\nMinutes of
  GPCC Ordinary Business Meeting\, Wednesday\, 20 MAY 2026 (18.45)\nat Came
 ron House Community Centre\, 34 Prestonfield Avenue\, Edinburgh.\nWard Cou
 ncillor Cllr. Pauline Flannery\nMembers Peter Cochrane (PC)\, Sally Griffi
 ths (SG)\, Brian Hosie (BH)\, Ellen Jackson (ERJ)\, Neil Kempsell (NK)\, P
 eter Jones (PJ) Ken Robertson (KR)\, Ian Wright (IW).\n(Brian Hosie repres
 ented Grange Association.)\nApologies Ian Chisholm (IC)\, Andreas Grothey 
 (AG)\, Hrafn Malmquist (HM)\, Cori Schwabe (CS)\n1. WELCOME Chair. Audio o
 r Video Recording: None.\n2. APOLOGIES Declared.\n3. DECLARATIONS OF INTER
 EST None.\n4. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING Report of 15 April 2026 adopted.
  (NK\, IW)\n5. MATTERS ARISING NOT COVERED IN AGENDA None\n6. EXTERNAL REP
 ORTS\n6.1 Ward Councillor Report\n1. CEC Active Travel Programme: Meadows 
 to Greenbank: Traffic Regulation Orders Sub-Committee 12 May: Legislative 
 drafting problems mean the removal at this time of traffic filters along C
 anaan Lane and Cluny Drive / Hermitage Gardens / Braid Avenue junction.\n2
 . The Gillis Centre Complex (Strathearn Road / Whitehouse Loan) is to be s
 old by the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh in Q3\; this opens a hi
 storic site for alternative use and redevelopment. (The closed Strathearn 
 Road Post Office Parcel Centre is also pending redevelopment.)\n3. Growing
  unease over the rising school roll numbers at James Gillespie’s High Sc
 hool.\n4. Housing\, Homelessness and Fair Work Committee: Working Group es
 tablished to look at the key provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2025
  (November)\, including tenant protections\, rent control mechanisms and r
 egulation of the private rented sector.\n5. Communal Bin Hubs: Capacity is
 sues at West Mains Road.\n6. Library public wi-fi service restored.\n7. CE
 C Committee programme entering summer recess.\n8. Query (SG) When will the
  Roadways Improvement List declared for South East Edinburgh (including th
 e GPCC Boundary) be publicly time-tabled? (See Minute of 15 April meeting.
 ) Response: No indication as yet\; improved public information flow now a 
 focus of the Transport &amp\; Environment Committee\; look for an update a
 t the 10 September meeting.\n7. GPCC REPORTS\n7.1 Past Action Points\n1. E
 dinburgh University Campus Security: query lapsed: closed.\n2. Library Wi-
 Fi: service resumed: closed.\n3. Grange Fair: closed.\n4. Community Grant 
 Fund and Participatory Budgeting: now of on-going agenda interest.\n7.2 Pl
 anning (IW)\n1. Responding to a Planning Application’: 3-page quick guid
 e added to website.\n2. Cameron House Nursery: Current Planning Applicatio
 n tabled for approval\, but on revised site drawings with no breach of bou
 ndary wall into Cameron Park.\n3. Causewayside Lads Institute now carries 
 a Building Preservation Notice\; no further news on possible site re-devel
 opment plans.\n7.3 Licensing\n1. Noted: Vape Shops a Trading Standards rat
 her than Licensing or Planning matter\; See website Rolling Update 29 Apri
 l.\n2. New Civic Licence Application for a skin piercing / tattooing licen
 ce at 191 Causewayside\, EH9 1PH\, in name of Campfire Tattoo Ltd. Opening
  Mon – Sun 11.00 to 18.00. Representations or objections to City of Edin
 burgh Council\, Licensing Service\, 249 High Street\, Edinburgh\nEH1 1YJ\,
  by 12/06/2026. The objection or representation must specify the name and 
 address\nof the person making it and be signed by that person or an agent.
 \n7.4 Police Reports (NK)\n1. Anticipate next Ward 15 South East Police Fo
 rum (Community Police Sergeant Rachel Lumsden\, E Division\, St. Leonard
 ’s Police Station) in August / September. Look for notice of a re-set da
 te for the Ward 10 South West Forum meeting of 15 April\, which was cancel
 led.\n2. Outline talk around the possibility of a local ‘Community Speed
 watch’ exercise\, under strict Police guidance on framework and practice
 . (No official approach.)\n7.5 Roads and Transport (NK)\n1. Controlled Par
 king Zone S8: Anticipate a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) at the 11 Septem
 ber June TRO Sub-Committee. Look for the Agenda on 4 September. Representa
 tions from the public in respect of agenda items must be submitted 48 hour
 s before the Sub-Committee meeting.\n2. Tram Trains for Edinburgh (TTfE) E
 vent on 23 April: Very well-attended and evident public support for the pr
 oject. GPCC will consider showcasing at a public / online event in H2. TTf
 E AGM on 1 June.\n3. Local commuter parking densities look to be on the ri
 se. Abden House\, Edinburgh University property at Marchhall Crescent\, se
 es un-monitored open space occupied. Priestfield sees higher incidence.\n7
 .6 Engagement Programme (CS)\n1. GPCC promo flyers distributed at the 9 Ma
 y Grange Fair.\n2. Building an engagement programme over H2: Consider live
  event\; defined themes\, not disputatious\; possible Elected Councillor p
 resence\; profile active local community groups / programmes (e.g. Grange 
 Association Home Energy Unit)\; profile possible Participatory Budgeting o
 pportunities.\n7.7 Website Development Plan (HM)\n1. Basic WordPress struc
 ture in place. Content migration in its early stages. Testing thereafter. 
 Completion expected in August.\n7.8 Neighbouring Community Councils (SG)\n
 1. Main focus is on completion of Local Place Plans (Southside\, Morningsi
 de\, Marchmont Sciennes).\n8 REPORTS FROM OFFICE BEARERS\n8.1 Chair (KR)\n
 1. Plan to introduce GPCC wall-board at Newington Library.\n2. Community G
 rants Fund (CGF): New award cycle now open. See Website. Applications clos
 e at 11.00\, 29 June 2026\; Guidance webinar at 16.30 on 2 June. Community
  Groups on GPCC distribution list have been alerted.\n3. CGF award structu
 re similar to that envisaged for Visitor Levy Participatory Budgeting (VL 
 PB). Funding applications to VL PB will require to show a beneficial local
  (community) impact which also enhances the ‘visitor experience’. For 
 GPCC\, an conceivable example might be a commentary linked local (built en
 vironment) history trail.\n4. GPCC needs some VL PB ideas / local group co
 nversations. Note the well-established ‘Leith Chooses’ PB model.\n8.2 
 Treasurer (AG)\n1. Small change in financial position: GPCC balance £3458
 . FoNC balance £4622. Payment made to Keegan &amp\; Pennykid for Public L
 iability Insurance Policy.\n8.3 Secretary (KR)\n1. Reid Memorial Church cl
 osure now more likely to be followed by property disposal.\n2. CEC public 
 consultation opens on Public Entertainment Resolution and Licence Conditio
 ns\; see ‘The Consultation Hub’ on GPCC website.\n9 REPORTS FROM OUTSI
 DE GROUPS\n9.1 Newington Cemetery (ERJ)\n1. Strong volunteer work on beds 
 and planters\; site for new bench to be confirmed\; some fly-tipping and r
 andom parking issues\; wall gap on western perimeter to be given added Her
 as fencing\; Dalkeith Road wall continues with prop support.\n9.2 EACC (KR
 )\n1. Edinburgh Partnership Local Outcome Improvement Plan: 2026 Refresh: 
 See website.\n2. Local Development Plan ‘Call for Ideas’: Update at fo
 rthcoming 28 May EACC meeting. Ia there something here for GPCC?\n3. Commu
 nity Municipal Investment Plan: Outline to be given at the 28 May EACC mee
 ting. See website.\n10 OTHER BUSINESS: Nil.\n11: FUTURE MEETINGS Wednesday
 s at 18.45 on 20 May\, 17 Jun\, 16 Sep\, 21 Oct\, 18 Nov\, 16 Dec.\nCompil
 ed by KR\nGPCC Office Bearers:\nKen Robertson\, Chair and Secretary\; Elle
 n-Raissa Jackson\, Deputy Chair\; Andreas Grothey\, Treasurer\; Cori Schwa
 be\, Community Engagement.
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