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.

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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.