CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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According to the blog of Cameron Rose there's a chance that Southside Community Council will be resurrected.
Does anyone have experience of being on a community council? Do they have any real effect on local council policy or are they just forums for complaining about bins/cyclists/students?
"are they just forums for complaining about bins/cyclists/students"
"just" depends on who is on...
Merchiston and Craiglockhart CC's seem to be very active in the community. They seem to be really influencing priorities in the area, campaigning for traffic calming, crossings, benches, car parking etc
As organised bodies they can apply for funding from various charitable bodies for a wide variety of things.
They do need motivated people to attend and to actually do stuff. Gorgie and Dalry CC seems to reform every couple of years as new people arrive and depart the area.
I think SRD is or has been on a Community Council?
Worth keeping mind the purpose of a community council: "the general purpose of a community council shall be to ascertain, co-ordinate and express to the local authorities for its area, and to public authorities, the views of the community which it represents, in relation to matters for which those authorities are responsible, and to take such action in the interests of that community as appears to it to be expedient and practicable"
The key thing is actually putting effort into ensuring what you say as a community council is actually what the folk living in the area feel.
Many community councils are happy enough rubber stamping tirades of objections to planning apps, battling the council, espousing the views of the community councillors and being in a bubble of inflated importance...
I'm on a community council, and I think we're doing a reasonable job.
sorry for not posting earlier. wrote a long post and then decided not to post it.
i've found 99% of people in community councils to be good, well-intentioned, welcoming etc, but the group dynamic can be problematic, especially when the same people have been involved since the start.
joining a newly formed one might avoid the worst of that.
Let hope that it more successful than the last one which collapsed rather acrimoniously. It was a great shame as there were good people on it and it was spoilt by just a couple of individuals.
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