The future of Leith and Leith Walk
As part of my contribution to Leith Festival week, I organised an event in McDonald Road library, "Leith and Leith Walk- the future". I thought it would be good to get together some of the local organisations in the area with local people to talk about what we felt were the main priorities for the community. We had not a bad turn-out. A lot of people were there because they were worried about a planning application for a big block of flats in McDonald Road - they felt (rightly in my view) that the developments in the area were just one block of flats after another. My colleague Malcolm Chisholm MSP spoke with the group about how best we could help them put forward their case to the City Council.
Housing was the theme of another discussion at the meeting. Not surprisingly, affordable housing (or the lack of it) was a big concern. We had some very useful information from Mohanjit Singh of the Port of Leith Housing Association. We also had sessions looking at the plans for an Edinburgh tram network, where I think a lot of useful information was provided.
People were also interested in the programme and activities going on at Out of the Blue in Dalmeny Street - not everyone had heard about it, so the event hopefully helped to get news round about that.
There were a number of other issues raised, which I'll be summarising in a report which I hope to publish on my main website in a week or so. Most people seemed to think the event was a good idea, and I think the ability just to pass on information about all the many things happening in the area was worthwhile in itself.
Housing was the theme of another discussion at the meeting. Not surprisingly, affordable housing (or the lack of it) was a big concern. We had some very useful information from Mohanjit Singh of the Port of Leith Housing Association. We also had sessions looking at the plans for an Edinburgh tram network, where I think a lot of useful information was provided.
People were also interested in the programme and activities going on at Out of the Blue in Dalmeny Street - not everyone had heard about it, so the event hopefully helped to get news round about that.
There were a number of other issues raised, which I'll be summarising in a report which I hope to publish on my main website in a week or so. Most people seemed to think the event was a good idea, and I think the ability just to pass on information about all the many things happening in the area was worthwhile in itself.
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