Marchmont & Sciennes Community Council will hold its monthly regular meeting on Wednesday 23 November 2016.
Ahead of that meeting, this week there is a community engagement workshop meeting on 16 November 2016 between 6.30 and 9.30pm. This is organised at Summerhall to discuss plans for development of the Sick Kids.
The area is home to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children which is being moved to the new building near the Infirmary. This leaves the existing building and there will be discussion about what will happen to it at this meeting.
Last month the community council heard that there had been 287 calls to the police from the Marchmont area and that there had been an increase in break-ins to houses between 4 and 6pm. The police representative explained that householders should think of leaving lights on when they are out, make sure their alarms are in working order and that car keys should be hidden. If you are going on holiday then you might ask a neighbour to take your mail in for you.
Police have started holding community surgeries at Butterflies café in Parchment St Giles and is planned for the last Thursday of each month.
The community council also recorded last month that here will be 200 daffodil bulbs planted in Bruntsfield near the Golf Tavern and 3,000 snowdrops will be planted by volunteers in November around Middle Meadow Walk.
The meeting also discussed the jawbones which are still missing from Middle Meadow Walk and this is to be followed up to try and ‘move it along’.
The meeting will take place in their usual venue of St Catherine’s Argyle Church Halls on Beaufort Road/ Grange Road and will start at 7:30pm.
The next meeting will be held on 25 January 2017. There will be no meeting in December 2016.
The Christmas tree lighting event will be held at the German Church Hall on 3 December at 3pm.
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