Meeting Notes from 11 October 2015

Hello all,


Please find the minutes from our most recent meetings held on Sunday 11 October 2015, as well as those from the AGM on 1 March 2015.


Watch this space for news of the next meeting and for information on decisions to be made.

Hello all

Hope you are well.

The results are now in from our building survey carried out by DM Hall. The details are posted on the blog.

http://brunswickstreetblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/relevant-documents-links.html

We now need to get together to discuss said results and make some decisions about how we would like to go forward based on the recommendations.

While the main focus of this meeting will be to discuss the survey we will also discuss any other business that is required.

Fiona and Hilary at 48A have kindly offered to host a meeting on October 11^th (Sunday). Ideally we would be looking for around 5pm. I will confirm the time when they return from holiday.

Please can you let me know your availability for this date and time.

Please take time to review the survey results on the blog. If you are unable to attend the meeting but have some comments or questions please pass them to me before the 11^th.

Hope to hear from you all soon.

Thanks

Grant McIntosh

BSORA Chairman

Plans for Brunswick Road Developments

In case you missed it, there are plans for 180 Cala homes to be built on the old post office site on Brunswick Road.  See more here:


http://edinburgh.stv.tv/articles/282893-cala-homes-unveil-proposals-for-brunswick-road-site-in-leith/


http://leithcentralcc.co.uk/2014/09/23/brunswick-road-development-cala-homes-illustrations/

Proposed works around Leith Walk

There is quite a programme of work due to take place in our neighbourhood. 

Please see here for more details
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20182/regeneration/835/leith_programme

and below for a letter from a local neighbour, Andrew Bell, encouraging participation in the consultation.

*****

Andrew Bell
andrew@anbell.co.uk

Dear Resident of Brunswick St,

I am writing to draw your attention to the consultation coming up for phase four of the Leith Walk project. These plans cover Pilrig St to Brunswick St, and affect you.
In the published draft plans there is no change proposed to the Brunswick St junction at Leith Walk, maintaining a wide and fast sweep for road vehicles. Brunswick St is currently used almost exclusively by noisy commercial traffic rat-running from McDonald Rd to London Rd.

At the consultation if you were to propose that Brunswick St is closed at Leith Walk it would remove all through traffic, clearing the air and opening the street up for play. This would not affect parking at all, the area in question is already covered by double red lines. For a little historical context, this junction only remained open to serve the ambulance station at number 77 which closed in 2007.

You may not realise the power you have by simply attending a consultation event, as very few do. Feedback is as simply as filling in a form with your name and suggesting ‘I would like to see Brunswick St closed at Leith Walk’. So I urge you to attend the open exhibition at McDonald Rd library on 11 June between 4 and 8pm, and also reply to the written consultation that will follow shortly after.

Relevant links

Current draft of full plans to be consulted upon (phase four link at bottom)
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20182/regeneration/835/leith_programme

My mocked up road layout, basic sketch drawing
https://i.imgur.com/tK2BiQL.jpg

Yours Faithfully
Andrew Bell

Shared Back Green - Proposals for Tidying It Up

Hello all,


Those of us resident in the block received a letter recently from our new neighbours Hilary and Fiona in 48A Brunswick Street in which they outline their proposals for doing some much needed tidying up work to the shared back drying green.


Before you get worried, they intend to cover costs, doing the work themselves, so it is simply out of courtesy to other owners that they are seeking to address any objections anyone might have before they get going. 


For those of you located elsewhere, you can read it here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3kC5YirhjzDSTZZTkM1MjUzWXpTSmF5djVSTmxYQzgyUzM0/view?usp=sharing 


This version includes an update to the letter as of 7 June 2015, which reads:

You might have spotted us pottering about and we have started some weeding ahead of
border creating…


You might also have noticed today, or last night, that a part of one of the trees came down in
the wind and into the middle of the green. This was a bit of a close call. Shows that we need
to start getting the small – and one day to be very large – trees shifted out as soon as
possible…


Please contact Fiona directly if you have any comments.

Local Developments

I thought as fellow owners and residents you might like to know (if you don't already) about a few fairly significant developments taking place in our vicinity.

Regardless of your views on them, there is likely to be an impact both in the short term, for example during the work, and later on, well we shall have to see. 

Edinburgh St James Quarter:
Work starting in Sep 2015, due for completion 2020.
http://www.edinburghstjames.com/



Caltongate (or "New Waverley") Development:
Work starting in March 2015
http://news.stv.tv/east-central/313120-new-images-revealed-of-public-square-in-new-waverley-development/






Royal High School of Edinburgh:
Proposals for a £55m hotel
http://news.stv.tv/east-central/312695-images-released-of-hotel-proposed-for-edinburghs-royal-high-school/

Notice of AGM - Sunday 22 February 2015 - POSTPONED TO 1st MARCH 2015

After a busy year in which we finally achieved our aim of repairing our decaying chimneys and carrying out other maintenance on the building, we are now due to hold our second Annual General Meeting.


This will be at 5pm on Sunday 22 February 2015 (venue to be advised).  NB THIS HAS NOW BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 1ST MARCH 2015.


An agenda will be posted in due course, and will include discussion and prioritisation of our next projects to maintain our property.  If there is anything that you would specifically like to have added to the agenda, please email bsora@hotmail.co.uk or contact us directly. 


We look forward to seeing you there.

Could have been us.....Byres Road in Glasgow Closed due to Dangerous Chimney

Byres Road in Glasgow was recently closed due to a dangerous chimney.  The photos look frighteningly familiar and reaffirm why we were right to take action and get ours repaired. 


http://glasgow.stv.tv/articles/306784-byres-road-in-glasgow-west-end-closed-due-to-dangerous-chimney/