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Festival Theatre planning application
The Festival Theatre has put in an outline planning application to Extend the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on land to the rear, on Potterrow/South College Street, to provide rehearsal and performance space, commercial space, and student residences at land 40 Metres Southwest Of 15 South College Street. There will be an opportunity for anyone interested to examine the plans and comment on 17th March, 5pm to 9pm, at the Festival Theatre.
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The Risk Factory
The Risk Factory is a resouce for schools to help in the teaching of personal safewty to P7 children. They are currently looking for new volunteers to help with the work. Click here for more information.
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Chrstmas Lights
On Tuesday, 1st December the Christmas lights at St Patrick Square were switched on, and we had a bit of a party. Billy McElhaney, star of River City, performed the Switch on ceremony, and music was provided by musicians from Edinburgh University Music Society. See Justine's photos.
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New Community Council
The new Community Council met for the first time on 14th October. Ten new members have joined the Council. To see who's on the Council, and who the new office bearers are, see "Who we are".
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City-wide Parks Manifesto
In response to continued pressure, mainly from Community Councils around the Meadows, and the Friends of the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links (FoMBL), the City Council has now brought out its "Parks Events Manifesto" aimed at controlling the impact of events in parks across the city. The consultation period for this document is now over, so we wait and see what the Parks Department will come up with,
Read the details on the FoMBL website and see what you think. Tell us and tell the City Council, so we can get this policy right.
See our pictures of what happened on the Meadows in 2008 Don't let this happen again!
See our response here
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Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association
Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association are looking to work in the Southside of Edinburgh this year, helping tenement residents regenerate their backgreens to create beautiful greenspaces that can be used for relaxation, play, food growing and much more.. Read all about it
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Planning Applications and Decisions in the Southside Community Council area from the Planning Bulletin dated 1st March 2010.
For this week's planning applications Click here
For this week's planning decisions Click here
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The latest news from our local Police
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Recycling Information from Campbell Clark, Recycling Advisory Officer
As part of The City of Edinburgh Councils (CEC) continuing aim to ensure that recycling is easily accessible to residents, the CEC are now offering residents who use the multi material kerbside box recycling service the facility where they can pick up replacement rain caps for their kerbside boxes, blue bags for paper recycling and salvation army bags for clothes recycling from their local library.
If you require any further information please contact CEC on 0131 529 3030.
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The Southside Association
The Southside Association meets on first Tuesday of each month at 7pm at Southside Community Centre.
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Old Town and Southside Crime Prevention Panel
The Old Town and Southside Crime Prevention Panel meets on the third Tuesday of every second month, starting in January. Detailed police reports are presented at each meeting, guest speakers talk on a wide range of associated subjects, and the Panel makes occasional visits to places of interest, such as the Force Communications Centre at Bilston, the City Council’s cctv monitoring centre, and Fettes Police HQ. New members will be warmly welcomed.
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South Central Neighbourhood Partnership
The next meeting of the South Central Neighbourhood Partnership is to be held on May 10th, at 7:00 pm. Venue City Chambers Business Centre.
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