Details of Meadows/Morningside Campaign
Meadows/Morningside is one of 17 new council wards which have been set up for the council elections in May 2007. Each ward will have 3 or 4 councillors to represent it. Meadows/Morningside will have 4. Read here about Alison Johnstone’s campaign in Meadows/Morningside.
Alison Johnstone is the Green candidate for Meadows/Morningside. To see a map of the ward click here
Alison is Parliamentary Assistant to Robin Harper MSP and has worked with Robin since 1999, when the Greens in Lothians achieved a historical breakthrough with their first ever election to a parliament in the UK. 41 years old, Alison is Edinburgh born and bred and lives in the south of the city with her husband and young daughter. She has been active in many local campaigns in Edinburgh and is currently working with shopkeepers in Morningside who are experiencing real hardship following the opening of three new supermarkets in the local high street. Alison would like Councillors to really listen to those they represent. She would like to see greater understanding of the difficulties that the inequalities in the planning system cause for many citizens and a determination to involve local people in decision making. A former East of Scotland 800metres and 1500 metres title holder, Alison still runs for fitness and has witnessed the gradual and ongoing loss of accessible green space for residents and the apparent obsession with organised and elite sport that excludes many.
- Read the newsletter for Meadows/Morningside Autumn 2006 issue; Winter 2006-07 issue; and Jan-March issue.
- See Alison’s election leaflet.
- Read Alison’s views on loss of playing parks; and school playgrounds.