Leith Walk ward includes Leith Walk and neigbourhoods around Easter Road, Pilrig and Bonnington.
Your Green Councillor
- Cllr Maggie Chapman
Maggie Chapman is our local Green councillor in Leith Walk ward.
Maggie has lived in Edinburgh for more than 13 years, having moved to the UK from Zimbabwe where she was born and brought up.
She has been the Green councillor for Leith Walk since May 2007, and is the Green spokesperson for Finance, Economic Development, Health and Social Care, Housing and Pensions. In the last five years she has campaigned for a Living Wage for Council employees and contracted staff, prevented the tendering of adult care and support services, fought against the privatisation of a range of council services, and introduced participatory budgeting to the Leith Neighbourhood Partnership.
As well as her councillor role, Maggie currently teaches geography and environmental philosophy at Edinburgh Napier University and is an EIS union representative. She has worked in the west of Scotland in Environmental Management, and as a community carer throughout Edinburgh.
Maggie also keeps a blog and can be found on twitter (@MaggieEdinburgh).
For full information on contact details and surgery times see Maggie’s details on the City Council website.
You can read more about Maggie in our latest ward leaflet here (pdf).
Your Local Greens
We are the local Green team for Leith Walk ward.
Read our new ward newspaper, Leith Walk Green News
See also our Autumn 2011 ward newsletter and for other back copies see our election special ward newsletter for Spring 2011 and other copies of the ward newsletter for autumn 2010 and previous copies of Green Action.
For earlier copies of Green News see here and our European Election special newsletter here.
Contact us on leithwalk@edinburghgreens.org.uk and you can follow Maggie on twitter @MaggieEdinburgh
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