Details of Southside/Newington Campaign
Southside/Newington 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. Southside/Newington will have 4. Read here about Steve Burgess’ campaign in Southside/Newington.
You can see a map of the new ward here . It covers a much larger area than most current council wards. It stretches from Blackford Hill in the south to Dynamic Earth in the north east, taking in the previous wards of Southside, Newington and Prestonfield, almost all of Sciennes ward and parts of Holyrood ward. The new ward includes diverse residential areas like Dumbiedykes, the Grange and Pollock Halls. It also includes half of the Meadows.
Dr. Steve Burgess is the Green candidate in Southside/Newington.
He was born and brought up in Edinburgh and currently lives on the north side of Holyrood Park. Steve is Head of Research with the Green Group of MSPs in the Scottish Parliament where he has worked for seven years. Before that he worked as a research scientist at King’s Buildings. Steve would like to see Greens on Edinburgh Council to make sure that priority is given to action on climate change, waste and transport.
- Read the the newsletter for Southside/Newington (Autumn 2006 edition); (Winter 2006-07 edition); (Jan-March 2007 edition)
- See Steve’s election leaflet