Ship to ship back on the agenda

This week the Licensing Board at The City of Edinburgh Council meets on Monday, Transport, Infrastructure and Environment Committee meets on Tuesday, Development Management Sub-committee meets on Wednesday morning and the Personnel Appeals Committee in the afternoon and Planning Committee visits are scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

The agenda for the Transport Infrastructure and Environment Committee is very far reaching. This committee has a wide remit. Its main aim is “To determine policies for the provision of transport, infrastructure and environment services within the strategic policy framework approved by the Council or the Policy and Strategy Committee”. So a huge range of items to deal with but this week’s agenda includes  the following items:-

Traffic in Duddingston village

Traffic reduction in Leith on The Shore.

Incentive based recycling

Access to community recycling sites by non-commercial vans

Food Waste recycling

Gull nests

Pedal for Scotland

Parking around Jewel & Esk Valley

Shandwick Place traffic measures – this seems to have opened up again to buses and taxis at least.

Ship to Ship oil transfers in the Forth – the ban on these has been put on hold by the UK government and it seems that the city council want to question that. In light of recent events in the Gulf of Mexico, although this was a drilling incident, it would seem mad for the UK government not to ban this practice.

Sustainable travel

Cleanliness of the city

National Spring Clean update

Occupational Health And Safety Enforcement

Oxgangs regeneration

The report on allotments – Cultivating Communities – the plan for 2010 to 2015.

Water of Leith Management plan

Proposal to impose waiting restrictions on Ormidale Terrace Murrayfield.

Park and Ride user survey update

Decriminalisation of parking enforcement. Variation of level of penalty charge notices.

Footway on the B924 to Dalmeny and Bellevue to be used by cyclicts. Other proposals for the Old Dalkeith Road Bus Priority and Cycle routes.Traffic calming in Balerno, North Fort Street and the Coates area.