Invitation to join local Environment Group

[Bob Jefferson]

Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch?

Dear Resident or Community Representative,

INVITATION

On behalf of the Portobello & Craigmillar Neighbourhood Partnership, I would like to extend an invitation for you (and / or other members of your group), to participate a new Environmental sub-group which is being set-up to give local people more influence, and to help us monitor and improve local service delivery.

One of the first tasks is to allocate a local budget of £100,000 which has been made available for improvements to roads and pavements in the Portobello and Craigmillar area. There are already a few suggestions about work that could help improve the neighbourhood, but to help us make the right decisions it is important to have input from local people and / or representatives. Therefore, we have arranged a bus tour to identify potential projects.

If you would like to be involved you are invited to join us on the bus tour on:

Saturday 15th November 2008, at 9.30am, from the Hays Business Centre. (For people from Portobello who require transport to the Hays, a coach will leave 119 Portobello High Street at 9.15am - (Opposite the Police Station), and will drop people back after lunch).
After the tour, we will return to the Hays Business Centre for lunch.

If you have any suggestions about potential projects, it would be helpful if you could please let us know in advance of the bus tour.

To book your seat on the bus, get more information, or to forward suggestions please contact Sandra Middleton on 0131 529 3032.
email: sandra.middleton@edinburgh.gov.uk

[BeachBum]

Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch?

Dear Resident or Community Representative,

INVITATION

On behalf of the Portobello & Craigmillar Neighbourhood Partnership, I would like to extend an invitation for you (and / or other members of your group), to participate a new Environmental sub-group which is being set-up to give local people more influence, and to help us monitor and improve local service delivery.

One of the first tasks is to allocate a local budget of £100,000 which has been made available for improvements to roads and pavements in the Portobello and Craigmillar area. There are already a few suggestions about work that could help improve the neighbourhood, but to help us make the right decisions it is important to have input from local people and / or representatives. Therefore, we have arranged a bus tour to identify potential projects.

If you would like to be involved you are invited to join us on the bus tour on:

Saturday 15th November 2008, at 9.30am, from the Hays Business Centre. (For people from Portobello who require transport to the Hays, a coach will leave 119 Portobello High Street at 9.15am - (Opposite the Police Station), and will drop people back after lunch).
After the tour, we will return to the Hays Business Centre for lunch.

If you have any suggestions about potential projects, it would be helpful if you could please let us know in advance of the bus tour.

To book your seat on the bus, get more information, or to forward suggestions please contact Sandra Middleton on 0131 529 3032.
email: sandra.middleton@edinburgh.gov.uk

If this is a public invitation youd think it would be on the dedicated neighbourhood partnerships website or the councils corporate website for the wider public. Are you on a mailing list for this stuff Bob Jefferson?

[Bob Jefferson]

I've known Mary Dunbar for a few years. She was involved in the East Edinburgh Local Development Committee, which the new Neighbourhood Partnership replaces. I think they plan to set up their own website for Portobello/Craigmillar so hopefully it will be kept updated.

Thanks for organising the link btw.

[BeachBum]

I've known Mary Dunbar for a few years. She was involved in the East Edinburgh Local Development Committee, which the new Neighbourhood Partnership replaces. I think they plan to set up their own website for Portobello/Craigmillar so hopefully it will be kept updated.

Thanks for organising the link btw.

My understanding from various documents I seen on the Orb was that they had opted to have a group website rather than individual NP websites, but clearly I was wrong.

The group one certainly doesnt seem to be getting updated since this tour bus doesnt get a mention. If I wasnt working overtime id have been tempted to see if there was a spare place.

Portobello & Craigmillar Neighbourhood Partnership

[seanie]

As it happens was at 'get together' with people from various Craigmillar groups on Monday evening. The general feeling was that we should be doing more as one community and trying to make links and connections between different groups and people across Craigmillar and Portobello.

The bus trip might improve peoples' understanding of the issues across the ward as a whole.

[Bob Jefferson]

I hate to be ungrateful but 100k doesn't sound like a lot of money for "improvements to roads and pavements in the Portobello and Craigmillar area." In road engineering terms that's peanuts.

I'm not sure we can afford to give people free lunches. Couldn't they just bring a picnic?

[Porty]

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The group one certainly doesnt seem to be getting updated since this tour bus doesnt get a mention. If I wasnt working overtime id have been tempted to see if there was a spare place.

Is there a specific allocation for them?

[rapunzell]

I'm following this with interest.

I can't do the bus tour, but there are a few pavements I'd like to rumble them across in my chair to demonstrate their cliff-like properties.

[BeachBum]

Any feedback about this from anyone that went?