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SUMMARY:GPCC Meeting - September 2025
DESCRIPTION:Agenda\nIssued on 8 September 2025 (along with the OBM Report f
 or 18 June 2025)\nAGENDA FOR ORDINARY BUSINESS MEETING ON WEDNESDAY 17 SEP
 TEMBER 2025 AT 18.45\nVENUE: CAMERON HOUSE COMMUNITY HUB\, 34 PRESTONFIELD
  AVENUE\, EH16 5EU.\n1 Audio or video recording of meeting\n2 Record of me
 mbership present and apologies received\n3 Declarations of interest\n4 Ado
 pt Minutes of OBM of 18 Jun 2025\, See ‘GPCC Meet 2025-06-18 JUN KR Draf
 t N5 8 Sep’\n5 Matters arising a) from Minutes b) not covered by Agenda.
 \n6 External Reports: Ward Councillor\n7 GPCC Reports\n7.1 Engagement: Pro
 gress on shape and direction of Engagement programme (CS)\n7.2 Planning: U
 pdate (inc. Purpose Built Student Accom.) (IW)\n7.3 Licensing\n7.4 Roads a
 nd Transport\n7.4.1 Kilgraston Road – Grange Loan road junction (NK)\n7.
 4.2 Priestfield Road / Prestonfield Road Trees Project (NK)\n7.4.3 Edinbur
 gh Trams North-South Route Consultation (NK) (See Consultation Hub)\n7.4.4
  South Suburban Line Working Group (NK)\n7.5 Environment – Gulley\, verg
 e and weed maintenance – CEC position (SG)\n7.6 Newington Cemetery (ERJ)
 \n7.7 Community Grants Fund Round Two 2025-26 and Survey (ERJ)\n7.8 Edinbu
 rgh Tenants’ Federation (ETF) – Link\n8 Reports from Office Bearers\n8
 .1.1 Chair – CEC Community Wealth Building Plan: survey close 29 Sep (se
 e Consultation Hub)\n8.1.2 Chair – City Plan 2040: Local Place Plans: Sc
 ope for GPCC involvement (Secretary email of 9 Jul)\n8.2 Treasurer\n8.3 Se
 cretary – GPCC attendees (2) at Saturday\, 11 October EACC meeting at Ci
 ty Chambers\n9 Reports from Outside Groups\n9.1 University of Edinburgh Li
 aison (ST)\n9.2 EACC: Next meeting 25 Sep: Local Place Plans - Community W
 ealth Build - Roadway Repairs - Local Engagement\n10 GPCC Shape\, Structur
 e and Direction?\n11 Any other business\n12 Date of future meetings: Wedne
 sdays at 18.45:\n` 2025: 15 Oct. 19 Nov\, 17 Dec\n2026: 21 Jan\, 18 Feb\, 
 18 Mar\, 15 Apr\, 20 May\, 17 Jun.\n\nMinutes\n18 September 2025\nMinutes 
 of GPCC Ordinary Business Meeting\, Wednesday\, 17 SEPTEMBER 2025 (18.45)\
 nat Cameron House Community Centre\, 34 Prestonfield Avenue\, Edinburgh\n(
 Approved at Meeting held on 15 Oct 2025)\nWard Councillor: Cllr. Pauline F
 lannery (Cllr. PF)\nOffice Bearers: Chair and Secretary\, Ken Robertson (K
 R)\; Deputy Chair\, Ellen-Raissa Jackson (ERJ)\; Treasurer\, Andreas Groth
 ey (AG).\nMembers: Peter Cochrane (PC)\, Sally Griffiths (SG)\, Peter Jone
 s (PJ)\, Neil Kempsell (NK)\, Hrafn Malmquist (HM)\, Ian Wright (IW).\nOut
 side Groups: Stuart Tooley (ST)\, Head of Public Affairs\, Edinburgh Unive
 rsity.\nApologies: Cori Schwabe (CS)\; Ian Chisholm (IC).\n1. WELCOME: Cha
 ir\nAudio or Video Recording: None. Members of Public present: Ms. LB\n2. 
 APOLOGIES: Declared\n3. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST: None\n4. MINUTES OF PREV
 IOUS MEETING (18 June 2025)\nOrdinary Business Meeting Report – Approved
  (PJ\, NK)\n5. MATTERS ARISING NOT COVERED IN AGENDA – Issue raised by M
 s. LB as member of the public:\nRoad junction at Dalkeith Road / East Mayf
 ield / Priestfield Road\; traffic lights\; no guided pedestrian signal on 
 the north / south axis\; junction the scene of a recent pedestrian road ac
 cident fatality.\nJunction a clear danger for school pupil pedestrian traf
 fic to / from Preston Street Primary.\nFull set of lights needed in contex
 t of ‘safe routes to schools’ schemes.\nLong-standing issue – why no
  Council action?\nERJ: GPCC has noted this junction as a clear road safety
  risk in past years.\nCllr. Flannery: Long-acknowledged risk spot. Road tr
 affic accident investigation underway. First report expected in the coming
  weeks. Upon the outcome\, she will resume a focus on the issue at subsequ
 ent Council meetings.\nCEC list of ‘risk road junctions’ (c. 40) exclu
 des this site – The list itself is now subsumed within the City Mobility
  Plan (CMP)\; funding pressures are impeding progress on delivery of junct
 ion improvements (see Minutes of 18 June). (As an aside\, a full traffic l
 ight reinstatement might cost c. £200k plus.)\nGPCC might consider aiding
  / raising a local residents’ petition on this matter. Submissions to th
 e Council might best be made in the context of the Active Travel / CMP / S
 treets Ahead programmes.\n6. EXTERNAL REPORTS\n6.1 Councillors’ Report 
 – Cllr. Flannery\n6.1.1 Prestonfield Primary Parents Council: Looking fo
 r a closer link with GPCC. Cllr. PF to introduce contacts.\n6.2.2 Communit
 y Grants Fund: Applications within the current round of small award fundin
 g close on 30 September.\n6.2.3 Local Place Plans: Community groups encour
 aged to draw-up small-scale ‘improvement projects’ for local place and
  realm. (No official funding support.) – GPCC will consider proposals.\n
 6.2.4 Council’s ‘Sprucing up your Neighbourhoods’ Programme: Southsi
 de-Newington (Ward 15) ‘deep clean’ scheduled for December. No indicat
 ion it will cover ‘deep weed clean’. Cllr. PF to check on this.\n6.2.5
  Introduction of Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) to city area ‘B1’: Impl
 ementation must follow relevant Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO). Long back
 log. Movement on this unlikely before Q2 2026.\n6.2.6 CEC Granton BioQuart
 er Trams Extension Consultation: Open until 17 November. Members and Resid
 ents strongly encouraged to submit a response.\n6.2.7 Road Drain Cleaning:
  In response to SG query: Cllr. Flannery pursues this issue (weed and grit
  blockage) at Council. Reduced use of glyphosate puts onus back on manual 
 + equipment work\; scope and quality of response is under pressure. – Wh
 ile CEC Transport &amp\; Environment Committee Convener Jenkinson tackles 
 this acknowledged issue\, GPCC points to the immediate channels for Counci
 l assistance on leaves: mailto:waste@edinburgh.gov.uk and on drain blockag
 es:\nReport a gully problem – The City of Edinburgh Council\n6.2.8 New U
 niversity Term: Scope for GPCC engagement with new students resident in th
 e community.\n9.1 Edinburgh University Report – Stuart Tooley\n9.1.1 New
  Edinburgh University Community Plan: Launces 6 October\; focus on communi
 ty engagement\; will include ‘free room booking facility’ for communit
 y groups at (e.g.) Kings Buildings\, Futures Institute\, Law School. Here 
 is the access link: https://local.ed.ac.uk/community-rooms\n9.2.2 Universi
 ty Finances: Widely-publicised review underway. Intended sale of universit
 y property sales of Kitchener and Douglas Horne Houses are definitively no
 t part of that.\n9.3.3 Boarded-up Cottage Property at Pollok Halls: ST wil
 l report on the background to this.\n9.3.4 Edinburgh ‘Doors Open Day’:
  See here for details: https://local.ed.ac.uk/news/doors-open-days-2025\n9
 .3.5 Peffermill Sports Village Development Proposal: Plans presently dorma
 nt.\n7. GPCC REPORTS\n7.1 Engagement: CS has led a small-group exercise on
  widening GPCC’s ‘engagement and inclusion’ reach. First thoughts ar
 e to focus on the production of a ‘GPCC Newsletter’\, with online subs
 cription via a suitable platform. KR will distribute a slide pack to membe
 rs giving detail (prepared by CS). Please consider it carefully and channe
 l your comments to CS directly. This is an agenda item for the 15 October 
 meeting.\n7.2 Planning: PBSA proposal for 140 Causewayside is the subject 
 of an 8 September Request for Consultation to GPCC\, closing date 29 Septe
 mber. IW will prepare a response from GPCC.\nBuilding at 27 Ratcliffe Terr
 ace (Causewayside Garage\, formerly Causewayside Lads Institute. ERJ to co
 nsider the merit of supporting a call to the Council for a Building Preser
 vation Order.\n7.3 Licensing: Nil\n7.4 Roads &amp\; Transport:\n7.4.1 Kilg
 raston Road – Grange Loan Junction: CEC consideration of remedial work p
 aused.\n7.4.2 Priestfield / Prestonfield Road Trees Project: Priestfield R
 oad phase paused for review.\n7.4.3 Trams North-South Consultation: Covere
 d in 6.2.6. No formal GPCC position.\n7.4.4 South Suburban Line (SSL) Work
 ing Group: Independent group convened to consider a revival of SSL proposa
 ls as an integrated complement to any trams extension. GPCC represented by
  NK. October public meeting in prospect.\n7.5 Environment: Gulley\, verge 
 and weed maintenance. See 6.2.7. We wait to see Council’s autumn respons
 e.\n7.6 Newington Cemetery: ERJ reports: Headstone reset work with funding
  from Old Edinburgh Club\; New planters in place successfully curb parking
  issues\; Wall repairs (2) still to be finished off.\n8. REPORTS FROM OFFI
 CE BEARERS\n8.2 Treasurer: Overall GPCC bank balance at £6136\, with the 
 Newington Cemetery sub-account at £4525. CEC Administrative Grant to GPCC
  for 2024/25 (£980) is outstanding. Similar payment for 2025/26 is expect
 ed in October. Cash donation of £76 to GPCc received from NK on behalf of
  the defunct Prestonfield Tenants’ Association.\n8.3 Secretary: Invitati
 on extended to Members to attend the EACC Saturday\, 11 October meeting at
  City Chambers. Contact KR.\nFuture GPCC Meetings: Views are invited from 
 Members on introducing online meetings (MS Teams)\nHM to review Website an
 d Webmail contract expenses in advance of 29 January 2026 Webmail renewal.
 \nMembers invited to respond individually to CEC consultations on Communit
 y Wealth Building (29 September close) and on the Trams Extension (17 Nove
 mber close).\nNote Astley Ainslie Community Trust event at the Liddell cen
 tre on 27 September.\nOutstanding on the GPCC Agenda: GPCC Shape\, Structu
 re and Direction.\nMembers invited to contribute content to GPCC Website.\
 n9 REPORTS FROM OUTSIDE GROUPS: EACC\nEACC: Next meeting 25 September\, on
 line\, featuring Local Place Plans\, Community Wealth Build project\; Road
 way Repairs programmes\; Local Engagement initiative. Members welcome to a
 ttend. Contact KR.\n10 GPCC SHAPE\, STRUCTURE &amp\; DIRECTION – Deferre
 d\n11 ANY OTHER BUSINESS – Proposed 18 February 2026 meeting to be resch
 eduled (KR)\n12 DATE OF NEXT MEETING Wednesday 15 October at Cameron House
  (18.45)\nAgenda items should be submitted to the Secretary at least 10 da
 ys before event.\nACTION POINTS ARISING\n6.1 Follow-up with Ward Councillo
 rs on Prestonfield War Memorial broken light report. (KR)\n6.1.1 School Pa
 rents Council contacts. (Cllr. PF)\n6.2.4 Check whether 'Spruce' programme
  covers 'deep weed clean'. (Cllr. PF)\n6.2.6 Review detail of Trams Extens
 ion consultation. (Members)\n6.2.8 Review contact routes to student commun
 ity. (CF)\n9.3.3 Property at Pollok Halls. (ST)\n7.1 Distribute detail of 
 Engagement Officer (CS) Newsletter proposals. (KR)\n7.1 Offer outline resp
 onse to CS. (Members)\n7.2 Response to Request for Consultation. (IW)\n7.2
  Consider line to be taken on Building Preservation Order (ERJ)\n8.1 Conte
 nt contributions wanted for website. (Members)\n8.2 Outstanding Admin Gran
 t. (AG)\n8.3 Review of Web contracts / expenses. (HM)\n8.3 Reschedule 18 F
 ebruary 2026 meeting to 11 February. (KR)\nGPCC Office Bearers: Ken Robert
 son\, Chair and Secretary\; Ellen-Raissa Jackson\, Deputy Chair\;\nAndreas
  Grothey\, Treasurer\; Cori Schwabe\, Community Engagement.\nReport prepar
 ed 18 September 2025
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