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SUMMARY:GPCC Meeting - October 2025
DESCRIPTION:Agenda\nIssued on 7 October 2025\nAGENDA FOR ORDINARY BUSINESS 
 MEETING ON WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2025 AT 18.45\nVENUE: CAMERON HOUSE COMMUN
 ITY HUB\, 34 PRESTONFIELD AVENUE\, EH16 5EU.\n1 Audio or video recording o
 f meeting.\n2 Record of membership present and apologies received.\n3 Decl
 arations of interest.\n4 ## Adopt Minutes of OBM of 17 Sep 2025\, See GPCC
  website front page and the link here: Report GPCC Meeting 17 Sep 2025\n5 
 Matters arising not covered by Agenda.\n6 External Reports:\n6.1 Causeways
 ide Lads Institute\, 27 Ratcliffe Terrace: Proposal for GPCC submission of
  request for CEC issue of a Building Preservation Notice (Mr Euan Leitch)\
 ;\n6.2 Ward Councillor.\n7 GPCC Reports\n7.1 Action Points arising from pr
 evious Meeting.\n7.2 Engagement: Discuss response to proposed Engagement P
 rogramme and next steps (CS)\n7.3 Planning: Update: (IW)\n7.4 Licensing:\n
 7.5 Roads and Transport: (NK)\nEast Mayfield / Dalkeith Road Junction: Cll
 r. Flannery: See GPCC site\, Rolling Update 25 Sep:\nhttps://www.grangepre
 stonfieldcc.org.uk/post/rolling-update\n7.6 Environment: Communal Bin Hub 
 Review: Autumn Works Page 6 Autumn Works (KR)\n7.7 Newington Cemetery (ERJ
 )\n8 Reports from Office Bearers\n8.1 Chair:\nRoyal Mail: Closure of Strat
 hearn Road Delivery Centre\, 20 Oct. Ian Murray MP petition\nSouth-East Po
 lice Forum proposal (Officer Rachel Lumsden\, 11 Sep)\nCEC Community Wealt
 h Building Plan: What scope for GPCC participation?\nLocal Place Plans: Wh
 at scope for GPCC participation?\nCommunity Grants Fund and Participatory 
 Budgeting: What scope for GPCC involvement?\nExpressions of Interest by 31
  Oct. (See KR email of 1 Oct.)\n8.2 Treasurer: Update\n8.3 Secretary: Nomi
 nations for positions on EACC Board ahead of 27 Nov AGM\n9 Reports from Ou
 tside Groups\n9.1 University of Edinburgh Liaison: New ‘Community Plan
 ’ launch on 8 October\n9.2 EACC: Next meeting 30 Oct: District Heat Netw
 orks\; Edinburgh University Community Plan\; Participatory Budgeting.\n10 
 Other Business: GPCC Direction: Does everyone have an involvement? (KR)\n1
 1 Date of future meetings: Wednesdays at 18.45:\n2025: 19 Nov\, 17 Dec\n20
 26: 21 Jan\, 11 Feb\, 18 Mar\, 15 Apr\, 20 May\, 17 Jun.\n\nMinutes\nCompi
 led 16 October 2025\nMinutes of GPCC Ordinary Business Meeting\, Wednesday
 \, 15 OCTOBER 2025 (18.45)\nat Cameron House Community Centre\, 34 Preston
 field Avenue\, Edinburgh.\nWard Councillor: Cllr. Simita Kumar (Cllr SK)\n
 Members: Ken Robertson (KR)\, Sally Griffiths (SG)\, Neil Kempsell (NK)\, 
 Hrafn Malmquist (HM)\, Ian Wright (IW)\, Ian Chisholm (IC)\, Cori Schwabe 
 (CS)\nApologies: Ellen Jackson (ERJ)\, Andreas Grothey\, (AG)\, Peter Coch
 rane (PC)\, Peter Jones (PJ)\nPublic: Mr Euan Leitch (EL)\n1. WELCOME: Cha
 ir. Audio or Video Recording: None.\n2. APOLOGIES: Declared\n3. DECLARATIO
 NS OF INTEREST: None\n4. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING (17 Sep 2025): Report
  adopted (as proposed by NK\, IW)\n5. MATTERS ARISING NOT COVERED IN AGEND
 A: None.\n6. EXTERNAL REPORTS\n6.1 Causewayside Lads Institute: 27-29 Ratc
 liffe Terrace: Request from Mr Euan Leitch.\nA PBSA planning application f
 or this site has been refused. A developer request for demolition has been
  submitted. Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has identified the buildin
 g\, formerly housing the Causewayside Lads Institute\, as meriting a categ
 ory C-Listing\, on account of its historical cultural and social significa
 nce and now architectural interest. The building is reportedly intact and 
 still viable as commercial premises. The HES identification is acknowledge
 d by City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) Planning Department.\nEL requests tha
 t GPCC join others in asking CEC to apply a Building Preservation Notice\,
  this to offer the building legal protection while HES proceeds with a lis
 ting procedure.\nGPCC Members agreed to write to CEC Head of Planning with
  such a request\, copied to Ward Councillors.\n6.2 Ward Councillor Report 
 (Cllr SK)\n6.2.1 Saturday 1 November at Prestonfield Bowling Green. Edinbu
 rgh &amp\; Lothians Greenspace Trust (ELGT) lead a ‘Help Plant Your Comm
 unity Orchard’ event\, 11am to 2pm. A stage in the ELGT project to deliv
 er a designed and active local growing space\, working in conjunction with
  the Thriving Greenspaces Team.\n6.2.2 On query re. open space adjacent to
  Prestonfield NP\; tree cutback and clearing along border railing\, Cllr S
 K will enquire on context and on how the action was permissioned.\n6.2.3 E
 ast Mayfield / Dalkeith Road Junction: Cllr SK will check on status of Pol
 ice Report / Road Traffic Investigaton on the recent fatal accident. Cllr 
 Flannery retains a focus\, within Council\, on the junction as a long-ackn
 owledged risk spot. Any Council review won’t take place until Apr 2026.\
 n6.2.4 Council employees in the course of work to manage flag-flying displ
 ays are facing uncomfortable pressures in some areas. Edinburgh TUC have a
 pproached community councils on this issue.\n6.3 Matters raised with Cllr 
 SK:\nBlacket Conservation Area (IC): Concern expressed on recent evidence 
 of permission granted to a planning application\, incorporating driveway w
 idening / wall removal work\, in clear opposition to conservation area des
 ign guidance. The application looks to have slipped past proper scrutiny a
 nd sets an unwelcome precedent. It raises the question of consistency stan
 dards applied within planning application decisions. The majority of these
  decisions are made not by Committee but by Planning Officers under delega
 ted authority.\nQueen’s Crescent (KR): A resident raises the ongoing iss
 ue of speeding\; ‘20mph limit is too high.’ Cllr. SK acknowledges a si
 milar complaint in the Priestfield residential area. She will speak with C
 EC Road Safety Team for their latest assessment of the issue.\nPriestfield
  Road / Prestonfield Road Trees Project (NK): Project programme now divide
 d in two parts\; update requested.\nNorth-South Trams Project (KR): Cllr S
 K was asked if she could give a fresh indication (from her own conversatio
 ns) of the costs being discussed in relation to founding and promoting the
  ‘business case’ for the trams network extension.\n7 GPCC REPORTS\n7.1
  Action Points from previous Meeting: See Appendix.\n7.2 GPCC Engagement P
 rogramme (CS): See this link for CS’ Newsletter proposals. (Offer feedba
 ck\, please\, if you haven’t already done so. Only 5 responses so far)\n
 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11nFx1VcF3U6YR43uxSl1nNQyFXLZMZcPG6
 4UXuguGms/edit?usp=sharing\nThe objective is to deliver GPCC name recognit
 ion and neighbourhood awareness of its purpose. Both are presently deeply 
 lacking.\nThe proposed route is by way of a regular (monthly) newsletter d
 elivered via a subscribed mailing list. The content would be ‘bite-sized
 ’ topics across a spectrum of neighbourhood interest\, drawn from a wide
  range of contributing sources. (‘Educate’ about what is happening\; 
 ‘Inform’ as to what may be done about it. (CS))\nThe outcome is intend
 ed is to build interest and direct participation in GPCC’s work as local
  ‘catalyst’ for change and improvement in (neighbourhood and city) ‘
 place\, space\, amenity and wellbeing’.\nCS will work on preparing a del
 ivery platform (e.g. Substack) and on shaping a newsletter structure for f
 urther discussion. Contemporary newsletter examples to be reviewed for poi
 nters. Drafts to appear in due course\, with December as a target for a so
 ft launch.\nAny data handling / data protection / online safety issues to 
 be considered and addressed.\nGPCC Members expressly asked to respond dire
 ctly to CS by 30 October on an appropriate newsletter ‘title’.\n7.3 Pl
 anning: Note the 27 November event launch of the Planning Democracy (Scotl
 and) Manifesto for Change. See GPCC site for detail.\n7.4 Licensing: Nil.\
 n7.5 Roads and Transport: See 6.2.3.\n7.6 Environment: Nil.\n7.7 Newington
  Cemetery: Some storm damage repaired. Wall repair still underway.\n8 REPO
 RTS FROM OFFICE BEARERS\nPending closure of Strathearn Road Royal Mail Del
 ivery Centre recorded.\nProposed regular ‘South-East Police Forum’ wel
 comed.\nCEC Community Wealth Building Plan: Early outline strongly endorse
 d by KR.\nSee Community Wealth Build CEC May 25.pdf\nLocal Place Plan: no 
 opportunities identified\; pass for now.\nCEC Participatory Budgeting: new
  proposals about to emerge. KR has confirmed GPCC ‘interest’.\n8.2 Tre
 asurer\nGPCC bank balance stands at £2694. CEC 2024/25 administrative gra
 nt (£980) still awaited. Newington Cemetery Project (sub-group and separa
 te) bank balance stands at £3739.\n8.3 Secretary\nRecorded HM proposal th
 at he scope a transfer of the Web Site and Business Email platform away fr
 om the current provider ‘Wix’. Reasons: Reduce the service expense\; t
 ake advantage of better features and open-source flexibility. (Web Host re
 newal is Jan 2027\; Business Email renewal is Jan 2026.)\nRecorded IC and 
 IW agreement to sponsor (nominate\, second) KR role as EACC Secretary at t
 he 27 Nov 2025 EACC AGM.\n9 REPORTS FROM OUTSIDE GROUPS\n9.1 University of
  Edinburgh Liaison: New ‘Community Plan’ launch on 8 October. The Plan
  is ‘designed to create real change in our communities’. Members asked
  to review content. Where Can GPCC work with this plan? Community Plan 202
 5–30 | Edinburgh Local | Edinburgh Local\n9.2 EACC Next meeting 30 Oct: 
 District Heat Networks\; Edinburgh University Community Plan\;\nParticipat
 ory Budgeting.\n10 OTHER BUSINESS: GPCC Direction: Held over.\n11 Date of 
 next meeting: WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER\; 18.45 at Cameron House.\nAgenda item
 s should be submitted to the Secretary at least 10 days beforehand.\n2025:
  19 Nov\, 17 Dec\n2026: 21 Jan\, 11 Feb\, 18 Mar\, 15 Apr\, 20 May\, 17 Ju
 n.\nAPPENDIX - covered at 19 November meeting\nACTION POINTS FROM 17 SEP M
 EETING\n6.1 CEC response to Cllr. PF on broken light at Prestonfield War M
 emorial: Repaired.\n6.1.1 School Parents Council contacts (Cllr. PF): Cont
 act made\n6.2.4 Check whether ‘Spruce’ programme covers ‘deep weed c
 lean’: Programme now in course.\n6.2.6 Members to review detail of Trams
  Extension consultation: Closed.\n6.2.8 Pointers to contact routes in stud
 ent community (Cllr. PF): In course.\n9.3.3 Boarded up property at Pollok 
 Halls (ST): Request for info repeated.\n7.1 Distribute detail of Engagemen
 t Officer (CS) Newsletter proposals (KR): Done\n7.1 Members to offer outli
 ne response to CS: Done.\n7.2 Response to incoming Request for Consultatio
 n 140 Causewayside: Declined by KR.\n7.2 Consider line to be taken on Buil
 ding Preservation Notice\, 27 Ratcliffe Terrace: BPN request submitted.\n8
 .1 Content contributions wanted for website (Members): Outstanding.\n8.2 O
 utstanding Admin Grant (AG): Being addressed.\n8.3 Review of Web contracts
  / expenses (HM): Now underway\n8.3 Reschedule 18 February 2026 meeting to
  11 February (KR): Done\nACTION POINTS FROM 15 OCTOBER MEETING\n6.1 GPCC t
 o submit BPN request to CEC Planning\, copied to Ward Councillors (KR). Do
 ne\n6.2.2 Query re tree clearing (Cllr SK). Relates to planned development
  at 67 Prestonfield Avenue.\n6.3 GPCC response to resident on Queen’s Cr
 escent ‘speeding’ (KR)\n6.3 Indication of Trams ‘Business Case’ co
 sts (Cllr SK). Awaited.\n7.2 Progress on GPCC Newsletter proposal (CS). Un
 derway.\n8.1 CEC Community Wealth Build proposals (Members)\n8.3 Scope pro
 ject to transfer Website and Business Email platform (HM). In course.\nGPC
 C Office Bearers:\nKen Robertson\, Chair and Secretary\nEllen-Raissa Jacks
 on\, Deputy Chair\nAndreas Grothey\, Treasurer\nCori Schwabe\, Community E
 ngagement.
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