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Proposed new ward boundaries for Edinburgh
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Report for Embra here;
Posted 7 years ago # -
Spylaw kept intact with Colinton, it looks like.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Paragraph 71, page 14 has the overall summary (I can't copy/paste it as the PDF file has been badly set up.
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The map makes it look like I've been moved from ward 9 to ward 10, which I'm not keen on, although I can see the logic. Hoping to get some clarification.
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I sense a 'keep SRD in ward 9' campaign coming...
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@kaputnik
Paragraph 71 doesn't refer to their final recommendations, rather their former proposals last year which I recall were discussed on here.
Part 3/Paragraph 91 onwards allegedly details their now recommendations, of course without saying in words what they're proposing and a set of maps with no details on former ward boundaries :slowhandclap:
Paragraph 94 is particularly enleavened with a link to someone's C: drive at the LGBC. Brilliant.
Honestly, after literally years at this review, you'd think they'd do a better job of the final report.
Posted 7 years ago # -
It's a pity the maps don't have the current boundaries on as well.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@chdot I can see the logic of moving us, but will be disappointed personally.
Posted 7 years ago # -
You just like your local councillors!
Might have to move house...
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@Murun happy to be corrected, I agree the report seems thoroughly impenetrable. What happened to the old "put your conclusions up front" style of writing?
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"What happened to the old "put your conclusions up front" style of writing?"
Maybe it was replaced by the fashion for transparency...
Posted 7 years ago # -
they could always be put clearly at the end then :P
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I may be off from the relative political calm that is Duddingston to the furnace of (local) political ambition that is Portobello. Does anyone know if the CC boundaries will change if this goes ahead?
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the existing and proposed boundaries are on the summary map near the end, so I expect it would have been easy to have them on the more detailed maps, or even better to highlight the places the boundary would move.
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"the existing and proposed boundaries are on the summary map near the end"
Ah yes, p38 (p39 of PDF)
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"Does anyone know if the CC boundaries will change if this goes ahead"
CC election are in Sep/Oct this year. They'll be on the current boundaries.Posted 7 years ago # -
I took part in the consultation on these changes. Not that it made a blind bit of difference, except a wee note that "Ward 11 includes less of Abbeyhill". Aye, as in almost none of it. I'm, happy enough still to be in Leith Walk ward, but still cannot see the logic of much of Abbeyhill being part of Craigentinny/Duddingston. Nor is is logical to include Roseburn and Murrayfield in the City Centre. "Natural communities" my erse!
Posted 7 years ago # -
"
THE Local Government Boundary Commission plans should be stopped until after proper debate, says Lesley Riddoch
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Scotland currently has 32 councils and 1,223 councillors.
Norway (with roughly the same population) has 429 councils and 10,785 councillors. Compare our statistics with any modern European democracy – or even the rusty old ones. Our councillor cohort is ten times smaller while our councils are ten times larger than the European average. This is the problem the Scottish Government has not yet opted to tackle.
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/lesley-riddoch-genuinely-local-system-a-long-way-off-1-4141103
Posted 7 years ago # -
City of edinburgh's smaller neighbour's struggle sometimes to deliver services the larger authority can provide. Two of them were going to merge but those plans collapsed. The other local authorities who did marry (stirling and Clacks.) have recently divorced.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Can't find a thread on Westminster/MP boundaries so I'll put this here.
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