CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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http://andrewburns.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/new-decision-making-processes.html
Various things that are 'new'.
This might be the one that could affect 'us' most - local infrastructure things -
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and a new Communities and Neighbourhoods Executive Committee, which will look at the development of Neighbourhood Partnerships and their relationship with other aspects of the Council
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These could be positive shifts, but we face a real challenge to get progressive voices, rather than conservative ones heard. The crowd in Leith seems to have brought together a vibrant set of voices, the Shandon Food group in South Edinburgh have done similarly on a smaller scale. BUt currently many community councils are dominated by concerns about parking and tend to be very reactive. I worry that the neighbourhood partnerships risk going the same way.
If there's a "Petitions Committee" how about a petition about Leith Walk?
How would one get involved on one's Community Council/Neighbourhood Partnership, I wonder?
Cynically, I imagine you have to be voted on by the existing members, having passed a rigorous "crusty and conservative" test.
"the greater good" </hotfuzz>
Even before this, I'd been mulling over starting a petition around canal access @ yeaman place. PM me if you're interested. Hoping to also link it into new Boroughmuir High school - would provide off-road access to a big chunk of their catchment
For Community Councils you just turn up. They are open to the public. If you say you'd like something on the agenda, they'll usually just put it on the agenda and let you speak about it. Maybe some community councils are very closed but mainly they're marginalised and isolated, desperate for local people to be at all interested in what they do.
They are open, but that just means that they hold their meetings in public. decisions, speaking etc is limited to those who are elected. and who elects them? good question.
But there isn't any canal access at Yeaman Place...
Oh. Edit.
<turns brain on>
that will be why you want to start a petition, then.
I have this image of SRD scrabbling around, turning over metaphorical stones and examining the creatures which wriggle away from the glare of her investigative searchlight.
Only to discover that Scotland is not a Genuine Participatory Democracy (GPD) with thriving local decision making processes, like, say, Switzerland, or even France. Instead it appears to be a vassal statelet semi-detached from a jumped up former imperial power; Run in quasi-governorial style by unelected quangos, remote 'local' authorities managing vast populations, and self-selecting cliques. The latter's claim to power rests in their resources (time, money) which enable them to sit on committees of various voluntary statutory bodies.
Hey, who knew?
crowriver: wow, well put!
crowriver -- mmm...batteries in light on helmet need replacing. otherwise image great :)
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Open meeting - Community Empowerment Bill: opportunities for Edinburgh
Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, 8pm on Thursday 27th September
Edinburgh Green Party is hosting this open meeting looking at how Edinburgh can benefit from a major community empowerment bill. With Scotland's foremost land reform expert Andy Wightman and with Robin McLaren discussing a community woodland buy-out in Edinburgh.
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