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If you want to comment on the proposed trial please email Edinburgh.Consultation@projectcentre.co.uk
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We're proposing high quality active travel + public realm improvements along the Lindsay Road to Salamander Street corridor + we want to know what you think. Find out more at our drop-in @ Duncan Place Community & Enterprise Hub tomorrow from 2pm – 6pm
https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/leithconnectionsphase3/
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The City of Edinburgh Council and its consultants, AECOM are working on plans to improve fish passage at Dowies Mill Weir. Two public events have been held recently to provide updates on the work done to date.
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https://www.edinburghoutdoors.org.uk/news/article/4/dowies-mill-engagement
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I suppose this counts as active travel.
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Would the fish passage would be a more nominatively appropriate intervention for Salamander Street?
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“I accept many residents may have found it difficult to interpret some of the proposals in the most recent consultation, and I am keen the council learns lessons from this.”
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“We’ve never had so much money spent on sweets, bouncy castles and so-called community fun days. This is not a consultation.”
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Just as important is the need for a change in the culture and attitude within Edinburgh Council. We desperately need to end the ‘we know best approach’ which besieged the last SNP-led administration, with its ‘tick box’ approach to consultation which left too many people feeling as though the council doesn’t listen or, worse still, doesn’t care.
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"BREAKING:
We’ve summarised the comments from Edinburgh’s latest consultation on pedestrian and cycling schemes, so
@edinburghpaper
doesn’t have to.These aren’t parody they are real!
#EENWarOnMotorists"
https://twitter.com/edinburgh_mews/status/1559159701170003969
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Yeah that’s a great thread!
‘You couldn’t make it up’
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Overview
The City of Edinburgh Council is consulting on the draft Edinburgh’s Thriving Greenspaces 2050: A Vision and Strategy for the City of Edinburgh Council’s public greenspaces . This document sets a 2050 Vision for the city’s greenspaces with four strategic themes that will guide the management of the Council’s greenspaces and will be used to set priorities over the next 30 years.
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https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/thriving-greenspaces-2050
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Ooooh, a vision. I look forward to this one...
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Mirage, more like.
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4.6 If the recommendations in this report are approved, a formal six-month consultation period will commence. During this period individuals or organisations can make representations regarding the trial and all feedback will be considered throughout the consultation period. The Engagement Plan is detailed in Appendix 2.
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So, no need for consultations for everything…
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Ministers have disclosed in parliamentary answers that the patient information project does not require a public consultation before the five-year contract is tendered or additional patient consent. They say the project, called a federated data platform, will help improve care and provide new insights into the nation’s health.
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This is about data-mining, knowing everything about everyone, and marketing junk to you that you don't actually need (probably a lot of unnecessary pharmaceuticals and "health treatments" too).
As well as privatisation by the backdoor
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Also: laying the groundwork for screwing people if they manage to get their dream of privatised health insurance to replace the NHS - gotta make sure they have plenty of excuses to deny you cover.
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Speed Limits Review: 20mph and Rural Roads
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Anyone able to offer an explanation for why they've left out all the wee dead end streets adjoining the proposed new 20mph streets. Saughton Avenue, off Gorgie Road, for example/
Seems it would be easier and cheaper to include them, which is generally what they've done in previous rollouts.
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Consultation on the Cycling Framework for Active Travel, due by 19th December.
https://www.transport.gov.scot/consultation/cycling-framework-for-active-travel-impact-assessments-consultation/Useful thread by Sally Hinchcliffe here:
https://twitter.com/sallyhinch/status/1601998804919648258Posted 1 year ago # -
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ETRO process
In line with the new Scottish Government process for ETROs (Experimental Traffic Regulations Orders) the public consultation on the ETRO will commence with the start of the ETRO and implementation of the trial LTN. This consultation will then run for 6 months.An Experimental Traffic Regulation Order is like a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO). It is a legal mechanism used to introduce trial changes to the layout of a road for a limited period of 18 months
The legal power to use an ETRO comes from the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and the Council follows the process set out in The Local Authorities Traffic Orders (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1999.
An ETRO may be used to introduce restrictions or prohibitions on
parking
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certain vehicles such as general traffic but maintaining access for buses, taxis, cycles and emergency services.“
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cycling-walking-projects-1/corstorphine-connections/1
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Recent research showed road casualties have dropped 30% since a citywide roll-out of #20mph limits in 2018. We’re now proposing to extend them further, as well as lowering speed limits on rural roads. Take part in our consultation http://edinburgh.gov.uk/slowerspeeds
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https://mobile.twitter.com/edinburgh_cc/status/1610247626015768576
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The accompanying glossy brochure talked of “a bright new dawn for Wyndford” and how a “new Wyndford is taking shape” but many residents believe that there is no real consultation, and minds at the GHA and city council have already been made up.
Daishin Stevenson, a Zen Buddhist monk, poet and photographer has lived in the flats for five years with her partner, Greum. She does not want the blocks to be demolished; instead she wants to see the flats get better maintenance and repairs.
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Deliveroo cycle courier Sam Sharp, who has lived in the flats for four years, has joined with other residents to challenge the demolition and demand a proper consultation. He speaks highly of high rise living – having his own space, great views and access to plenty of wild green spaces – things he says most cities should strive for.
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Not an Edinburgh consultation but I noticed this news story about one in St Andrews where bakery owner compares the council to Stalin...
Fisher & Donaldson owner Eric Milne wants Fife Council to restore car parking spaces on South Street to pre-pandemic numbers.
He would like officials to reverse temporary changes, introduced at the start of lockdown, which gave more street space to pavements, cafes and pedestrians.
He said: “I am desperately trying to keep St Andrews busy and healthy, for the sake of my business and my 120 staff across Fife.
“The town is in decline. When I see seven empty units in the town… I am getting really worried. People come to the town for shops. And if the shops die, the town centre dies. And then you may as well have a dust bowl.”
Fife Council is holding a consultation on the future layout of South Street. Further South Street changes could include widening footways, adding public seating, tables, planters, trees and cycle parking.
It could also mean the end to businesses seating customers on pavement tables.
“All we’re doing is scaring customers away,” he said.
“I have customers at my shop in St Andrews who now go to my Cupar shop, because we’ve got free parking outside the shop there.
“All we’re doing is removing the parking, removing the parking – and not replacing any of the parking.”
Eric has been a vocal critic of the Spaces for People erected in the town during the pandemic.
“They should be putting in more parking to encourage people to shop local,” Eric continued.
“We are killing the town centre. (The council is) messing up St Andrews at the behest of Active Travel Fife.”
Eric accused Fife Council of “railroading” the consultation through during the festive period “when the businesses don’t have time to fight it.”
“I’m just so disappointed. (Businesses) have been pushed into a corner. How do you eat an elephant?” He asked. “It’s one slice at a time. All the parking is being nibbled away. It’s like Stalin,” he claimed.
“You are in charge of the committee, you write the agenda, and then you get the answers you want.
“It’s a ‘Stalinist’ viewpoint by the council.”
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It's a 20-mile round trip between the Fisher and Donaldson shop in St. Andrews and the one in Cupar. So that's 40 minutes and around £3 in fuel to benefit from free parking?
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That sounds unlikely.
There will quite possibly be someone who lives roughly the same distance from each town for whom the more convenient parking at the bakery in Cupar is the deciding factor in where they shop.Were I in charge, I would certainly be considering other factors whilst determining parking policy, though.
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Posted on own thread by SRD
just received this email:
The Council is looking for views on proposals to expand the city’s network of 20mph streets, as well as lowering speed limits on roads that have limits of 40mph or more, which are mainly rural.
20mph speed limit proposals map https://atkinsgeospatial.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=57e7b6b865774b1b8293a27124f2ec0d
Rural road proposals map
https://atkinsgeospatial.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=acd037bf39b5424ca59844deb8ca3e10Whatever your views about our speed limit proposals, we want to hear from you.
Take part and complete the online survey which is available on the Council’s Consultation and Engagement Hub at http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/slowerspeeds.
Please forward this email to any contacts that you feel would be interested in making their views heard on the proposals. The consultation is open and you can feedback until 8 February 2023.
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