Councillors Archive

  • New Councillors Group

    Councillors Report November 2012

    Your Green Councillors have prepared their report on their activities for the past month, including work on the planning committe, school provision and flood prevention. You can read the report here (pdf).  

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  • Melanie Main

    Planning The Learning Environment

    It’s with some trepidation that I find myself the Green  member of the Forum on Children and Families Estate Evaluation,  the committee that discussed schools closures  some years ago.    Over the last five years  the SNP-LibDem Coalition that ran Edinburgh City Council closed 7 primary...

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    Talking Cycling On Newsdrive

    Following on from last week’s Council agreement to look into establishing a cycle network in honour of Sir Chris Hoy, I appeared on Radio Scotland’s Newsdrive with Kim Harding of Pedal on Parliament. We talked about the benefits of cycling and why cyclists need to...

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  • Nigel Bagshaw

    Silence at planning committee?

    New rules on representation in the planning process are a step backwards, argues Nigel Bagshaw.

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  • Edinburgh Flats

    Party flats!

    Sounds good doesn’t it?  Party flats – what is to object to about that?

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  • Cllr Maggie Chapman

    Governance review: structures or cultures?

    Maggie Chapman ponders the City Council’s governance review

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    Don’t Chuck It, Freegle It!

    You may have seen in the Evening News recently, or had the leaflet through your door, that the way Edinburgh Council collects rubbish is about to change. In some areas of the city, collections of the main waste bin are to be reduced to fortnightly,...

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  • Green Group in Chamber May 2012

    Green councillors monthly report for August

    Green councillors have prepared a report for the Branch party covering the period from mid July to 13 August

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