Talk Porty ~ Portobello

seanie

Information on traffic aspects can be found as part of the planning application.

seanie

And more... With reference to the above paragraph PLEASE insert the word "or orchestrate" before "make personal attacks", as there are many examples of CC members making the bullets for others to fire by misrepresenting what has been said or done at CC meetings. The orchestration of attacks on PCC b...

seanie

From responses to the second consultation on amending the Community Council Scheme. Proposal for online voting I understand that the Facebook campaign is also pushing for online voting. This should be avoided at all costs as it would be very easy to manipulate. Many people have multiple IP addresses...

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Mary Thomas - Richmond, CA, USA

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Naomi Katheryne Lee Hood - Milton, FL, USA Mallika Henry - Cambridge, NY, USA Patrice Garcia - Glendale, AZ, USA Barry Thiessen - Delta, BC, Canada Brian & Judy Poole - Rhyader, Wales Derek Stockdale - Bangor, Wales Annie Wei - Auckland, New Zealand Beth Norwood - Huntsville, AL, USA Rob Jursa - Bre...

seanie

Close.

As best I can tell, they've all signed PPAG's latest petition to "Protect Green Space Across Scotland" within the last few days.

And at least a sub-set may be under the impression that the green space they're trying to protect looks like this:

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seanie

Plus...

Debra Gakeler - Overland Park, KA, USA

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Plus...

Donatella Gualandi - Bologna, Italy
Deanne O'Donnell - Greensburg, PA, USA
Renie Mc Callum - Courtenay, Canada
Dean Stanley Windh - Lakewood, WA, USA

seanie

What do the following people all have in common? Beverley Morgan – Turlock, CA, USA Christeen Anderson - Crestview, FL, USA Debbie Geno - Grover, MO, USA Jos. Renneke - Eden Prairie, MN, USA Victoria Pitchford - Toronto, Canada Barbara Tomlinson - Seattle, WA, USA Kit Blumenstein - Lewisville, TX, U...

seanie

They're setts not cobbles. Cobbles are just loose stones set into a road surface, whereas setts are cut and regularised stone.

seanie

I seem to recall saying that the proposals involved a 30% reduction, which would be 30 down to 21.

Whatever the merits of the proposal, at least my description of it was factually accurate. In marked contrast to the subsequent "clarification".

seanie

"The proposal by the City Of Edinburgh Council is to reduce the number of group positions by more than 50 per cent, from 15 to seven, and group positions from 15 to 14." So the Council are proposing to reduce group positions from 15 to 7, as well as reducing group positions from 15 to 14? Maybe bes...

seanie

Bowling in general has been in decline for years. People aren't taking it up the way they used to.

seanie

Under the rules, all the "elected" individual members and all the registered groups would then vote on which groups get represented. But that's never happened in years. The composition of Portobello Community Council is completely out of step with the rest of Edinburgh. Almost all Community Councils...

seanie

There's one absolute classic amongst the objections.

I must remember to vary my font size randomly and introduce SOME capitalisation more often.

You're taken more seriously that way.

seanie

So what do I get? Whilst some may look at 19 votes in simplistic mathematical terms, and draw unwarranted conclusions without truly appreciating the complexity of the results, I don't think that any reasonable minded person could disagree that, on a symbolic if not arithmetical level, 19 votes clear...

seanie

Whatever did or didn't happen it had nothing to do with PFANS. Clearly different people have given different accounts, but at most it sounds like a storm in a teacup.

seanie

Forgot all about it. Will chase up legal services for an explanation.

seanie

I had to look into the possibility of a dog-free zone on the beach a while back and it wasn't easy. There's an underlying presumption of a right of access under the 'right to roam' and it's difficult to suspend that. The places that do have dog-free zones tend to do it on an implied basis, without a...

seanie

It wasn't the easiest meeting to minute but something will be forthcoming.

seanie

But Clare Symonds doesn't go by the name Kyndt. If she did you'd get more than 38 Google hits for the name, 34 of them for someone in Devon and the rest about the letter in the Evening News.

I'm afraid all you've got is conjecture.

seanie

So there are two Clare Kyndts in Edinburgh?

What are the odds of that?

seanie

There's more. I had always assumed that the size of Community Councils, in terms of members allowed under the scheme, was related to population; having looked more closely, that isn’t the case. The 2011 statistics, give the population of Edinburgh as 495,360. With a total possible allocation of 881 ...

seanie

The proposed changes to the scheme seem good, if fairly minor, but there's an oddity in the scheme relating to Portobello that hasn't been picked up upon. There is clearly an impetus to strengthen local communities and broaden participation in the decisions that affect people, and clearly as the mos...

seanie

Perhaps somebody finally got round to reading the report published four and half weeks ago, that went before the full Council meeting on the 22nd November... Come to think of it, that would explain the performance of the BIOB delegation to the Council meeting. Not easy to answer a question about ho...

seanie

The Council have recently launched a consultation on the rules surrounding Community Councils. It's not on the face of it the most engaging of consultations, but some might find it of interest.

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/820/co ... councils/3

seanie

Speaking of which, is see Build it on Baileyfield have given a recent update on their Facebook page: We mistakenly thought that we would know on 12 December whether or not CEC's bid for Baileyfield was successful. It now appears that we are unlikely to know before the consultation period ends. How t...

seanie

Activity appears to have largely shifted to Facebook for the time being.

seanie

Just came across a bizarre coincidence. There's a letter in the Evening News today, standard PPAG/BIOB stuff, from a Clare Kyndt. Now I'm familiar with a fair number the names of people who've involved themselves in the issue, but that one was new to me. It's also a surname I'd never heard before so...

seanie

Diana has confirmed that she wrote in a purely personal capacity, so clearly there's been sone kind of misunderstanding on the part of the Council. I have written to the Council asking for an explanation of their mistake, so we may get some further clarity.

seanie

Bob Jefferson wrote:She wrote on behalf of Portobello Community Council? That seems a bit odd, doesn't it?

Apparently not. Diana has confirmed she wrote in a purely personal capacity, so there's been some kind of mix-up on the part of the Council, who've wrongly assumed she was representing the Community Council.

seanie

You should let the editorial team know. They may be getting grief.

seanie

Those on the Community Council interested in planning matters. I think there is a missed opportunity in all this however. If you were genuinely interested in how people engage with and experience the planning system, then Portobello High School would actually be a very interesting issue to examine i...

seanie

Given the previous track record of PCC, should we be concerned that this group is to address PCC? What is the purpose of their presentation? And will the consultation over PHS have concluded by the time the presentation is re-scheduled? I wouldn't read too much into Planning Democracy coming to giv...

seanie

Too high, too dense, not in keeping with the neighbouring Conservation Area, traffic and parking issues, blocking vistas, the use of brick...

The objections are still up on the planning portal if you search for 09/01029/FUL.

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