- Request no. 36970. Received: 02/05/2022, Resolved: 30/05/2022
Nicholson Square
How authorities decide which roads to repair, or who should receive funding? When were repairs carried out on the airport bus route Nicholson Square (road)? When was the bus shelter cleaned of graffiti vandalism?
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- Request no. 36976. Received: 03/05/2022, Resolved: 30/05/2022
Old Silverlea Care Home Site
Please provide a copy of the property developer's pre-application consultation report regarding the proposed housing development on the old Silverlea care home site in the Muirhouse/ Salvesens area of NW Edinburgh.
Resolution
There does not exist a pre-application consultation report regarding the property developer's proposed housing development on the old Silverlea Care Home site in the Muirhouse/ Salvesens area of NW Edinburgh.
- Request no. 36981. Received: 01/05/2022, Resolved: 01/07/2022
Planning Applications Since 2013
All planning applications submitted on or after 1 October 2013 where no decision made within 26 weeks unless a longer period has/had been agreed in writing between applicant and Local Authority) and no refund of fees has been made to date.
Resolution
Closed - No clarification received.
- Request no. 36993. Received: 04/05/2022, Resolved: 06/07/2022
Projects and Programmes
A list of your current Projects and Programmes (for example IT Projects) ? Associated timelines for those Project and Programmes ?
Resolution
Closed. No clarification received.
- Request no. 37008. Received: 04/05/2022, Resolved: 31/05/2022
Brunstane Road and Coillesdene ETRO
Could provide the following information on volume, speed and classification of traffic by date and time? Location and duration of planned traffic volume and speed. Documents setting out the Council's policy of one way traffic?
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- Request no. 37011. Received: 05/05/2022, Resolved: 28/06/2022
PHV Licence Reviews
What action to review a PHV licence would this type of behaviour result in? What review has taken place? Has any action been taken to revoke his licence? If not, why not and other information.
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- Request no. 37014. Received: 05/05/2022, Resolved: 15/07/2022
Business Rates Credits
Please can you email me a list of April/May business rates credits you currently hold for businesses?
Resolution
Closed. No clarification received.
- Request no. 37019. Received: 06/05/2022, Resolved: 15/07/2022
Homeless application
Please supply copies of the paperwork for a homeless application to be made.
Resolution
Closed. No clarification received.
- Request no. 37039. Received: 07/05/2022, Resolved: 06/07/2022
Housing Works
Housing works both completed and not completed. Telephone calls/emails about work needing completed. Complaints
Resolution
Closed - No clarification received.
- Request no. 37042. Received: 09/05/2022, Resolved: 15/07/2022
SEN direct payments
Amount of money being given in direct payments to the families of children with special educational needs (SEN).
Resolution
No clarification received.
- Request no. 37059. Received: 09/05/2022, Resolved: 29/07/2022
Use of Expanded Polystyrene Insulation
Information about the use of Expanded Polystyrene insulation (EPS) in (a) your housing stock, and where (b) external wall cladding insulation has been retrofitted to existing homes to improve the insulation, such as ABS and other programmes.
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- Request no. 37060. Received: 09/05/2022, Resolved: 15/07/2022
Adult social care contracts
Please can you provide the following information regarding current and pending provision of adult social care contracts within the local authority area.
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- Request no. 37062. Received: 09/05/2022, Resolved: 12/07/2022
Household Support Fund
How much did your local authority spend, or commit, of its Household Support Fund allocation in the period 6 October 2021 to 31 March 2022 and all other information.
Resolution
Closed - no clarification received.
- Request no. 37079. Received: 10/05/2022, Resolved: 08/06/2022
Penalty charge notices
Please provide information on penalty charge notices (PCN) that where issued between May 2017 and May 2022 in relation to vehicles parked in Lorne Street
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- Request no. 37127. Received: 15/05/2022, Resolved: 13/06/2022
Greenbank Road / Greenbank Lane
Please provide a copy of all information relating to the speed, volume and direction (along with any information on timing of survey) of traffic during the period 1 January 2000 to 31 March 2022.
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- Request no. 37142. Received: 12/05/2022, Resolved: 10/06/2022
Slavery & Colonialism Legacy Review
How many members it has? Names of members and how they were chosen? Who took the decision that, apart from the Chair, they should be anonymous, whether identities have been disclosed.
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- Request no. 37151. Received: 13/05/2022, Resolved: 14/06/2022
Charity Trustees
In each of the last 6 years to 31 March, how much a) Time and b) Cost has the 1) City of Edinburgh Council and separately 2) CEC Finance and Resources spent addressing/fulfilling its responsibilities in its capacity as Charity Trustees
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- Request no. 37152. Received: 13/05/2022, Resolved: 14/06/2022
Charity Trustees of the Lauriston Castle Trust
In each of the last 6 years to 31 March, how much a) Time and b) Cost has the 1) CEC and separately 2) CEC Finance and Resources spent addressing/fulfilling its responsibilities in its capacity as Charity Trustees of the Lauriston Castle Trust.
Resolution
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with the information requested because it is not held by the Council.
- Request no. 37153. Received: 13/05/2022, Resolved: 14/06/2022
Lauriston Castle Trust
In each of the last 6 years to 31 March, how much a) Time and b) Cost has the 1) CEC and separately 2) CEC Finance and Resources spent addressing/fulfilling its responsibilities in its capacity as Trustees (opposed to Charity Trustees).
Resolution
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with the information requested because it is not held by the Council.
- Request no. 37157. Received: 17/05/2022, Resolved: 27/06/2022
GP surgeries/practices
Request for information regarding the number of GP surgeries that have closed since 1st January 2020 to present and all other information.
Resolution
No NHS Lothian practices/surgeries have closed since January 1st 2020 to date.
- Request no. 37159. Received: 13/05/2022, Resolved: 14/07/2022
Foreign Aid
Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021: a) How much UK Foreign Aid has been given to them? b) On which date? c) Does the UK government intend giving further foreign aid to the Taliban government?
Resolution
Closed - No clarification received.
- Request no. 37228. Received: 18/05/2022, Resolved: 08/07/2022
Gender-based violence
Provide all information relating to Intimate partner violence/ domestic abuse (including physical, sexual, financial and/ or psychological harm/ coercive control).
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- Request no. 37242. Received: 17/05/2022, Resolved: 28/06/2022
Scotland - Refugee resettlement
How many people have been permanently resettled under the Afghan Citizen Resettlement Scheme / Homes for Ukraine Scheme / Ukraine Family Visa Scheme as of Friday 13 May 2022 in your council area?
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- Request no. 37257. Received: 18/05/2022, Resolved: 07/07/2022
LGBT Youth Scotland Schools Charter
Details of the number and names of all primary and secondary schools in your council area which have applied for and are working towards or have been awarded an LGBT Youth Scotland Schools Charter. Also cost per school.
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- Request no. 37273. Received: 23/05/2022, Resolved: 20/07/2022
Tackling Digital Poverty
I would like to know what budget/policies your council have put in place to combat digital poverty/digital exclusion (such as lack of access to devices/internet or digital skills training) over the last 3 years.
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- Request no. 37317. Received: 26/05/2022, Resolved: 28/06/2022
Parking Suspensions
Details of all applications for parking suspensions for 21st and 22nd May 2022 on Melville St, Edinburgh
Resolution
We do not hold any information on TTRO applications or parking suspensions in Melville Street on the specified dates.
- Request no. 37328. Received: 26/05/2022, Resolved: 11/07/2022
Expenses and Invoices
What finance system do you use to manage and process your staff’s expenses? What system do you use for managing/processing invoices and other information.
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- Request no. 37331. Received: 26/05/2022, Resolved: 23/09/2022
Jubilee Book
Can you please state how many primary schools have opted in for copies of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebratory book?
Resolution
89 Primary Schools
- Request no. 37333. Received: 27/05/2022, Resolved: 27/06/2022
EHSCP Aids and Adaptations
What is total spend by the EHSCP on aids and adaptations in each of the last 5 years up to and including 2021/22? How long is the current waiting list for an OT assessment for aids and adaptations? How many applications in each of these 5 years?
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- Request no. 37347. Received: 27/05/2022, Resolved: 05/07/2022
Primary and Secondary School Staff Pensions
The number of staff who are employed in Edinburgh schools, primary and secondary, whose pension provision is covered by the local government pension scheme. Please also provide the funding amount per year which is set aside.
Resolution
3,044 - £17,966,374
- Request no. 37349. Received: 27/05/2022, Resolved: 29/07/2022
Council tax rebate status 2022
Please provide all information and breakdown on account of how many households in your council area fall into each of the following council tax bands: A, B, C & D?
Resolution
Closed. No clarification received.
- Request no. 37350. Received: 27/05/2022, Resolved: 27/06/2022
Canal View Primary School - New Head Teacher
Q1. Has the new Head Teacher been announced to the public and if so, who is it? Q2. Evidence of input/opinion from the 'supportive parent body' in the decision/selection making process? i.e., did the parent body 'have their say'?
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- Request no. 37351. Received: 27/05/2022, Resolved: 11/07/2022
Care Package
In 2021 and 2022, in your authority, how many people have been assessed as needing care and are currently waiting for a care package to be in place, up and running and all other information.
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- Request no. 37353. Received: 19/05/2022, Resolved: 09/08/2022
Provision of Children's Services
The range of support services which children in your authority can access, including services such as CAMHS and Speech and Language Therapy; and 2. The waiting times for access to support services.
Resolution
Closed. No clarification received.
- Request no. 37354. Received: 27/05/2022, Resolved: 29/06/2022
Asbestos in Council-owned Buildings
How many public buildings belonging to City of Edinburgh Council contain asbestos? Please provide breakdown and had asbestos removed from them in the past five financial years (2017-2018 to 2021-22) and so now contain no asbestos?
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- Request no. 37357. Received: 30/05/2022, Resolved: 28/06/2022
Mail Room / IT Systems
How many Council Tax dwellings total is your Council(s) responsible for? What is the total amount you spend on postage a year and information relating to Mail Room and IT systems.
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- Request no. 37358. Received: 30/05/2022, Resolved: 30/06/2022
West Register Street
- Your inspection and repair policy documents - Any reports from you to the relevant party in respect of apparatus requiring repair on West Register Street
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- Request no. 37364. Received: 29/05/2022, Resolved: 27/06/2022
Grounds Maintenance
I would like to ask you for any factoring details associated with the public park that is situated between Greenacres Development and Housing Association in EH16.
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- Request no. 37366. Received: 30/05/2022, Resolved: 27/06/2022
Hate Crime Research 2022
We want to explore how the UK hate crime sector has changed over the last five years.
Files
- Request no. 37367. Received: 31/05/2022, Resolved: 28/06/2022
Builyeon Road, South Queensferry
If funding for the provision, construction and future on-going revenue operating cost of a new primary school at the new housing development is currently included in CEC capital and revenue budget programmes for future years?
Files
- Request no. 37368. Received: 31/05/2022, Resolved: 27/06/2022
Ownership of Police Box
Please could you provide me with the information of who owns the Police Box at Henderson Garden in Leith, Edinburgh?
Resolution
We only hold dated information in our records – that the box was sold in May 1996 to Regis & Regis. We do not have records for the current owner.
- Request no. 37369. Received: 31/05/2022, Resolved: 28/06/2022
Junction of Lanark Road/Slateford Road (A70) and Craiglockhart Avenue
All information relating to road defect inspections and repair works carried out during the period 1 September 2021 to 31 May 2022i including when any defects or portholes were identified, when they were repaired and how they were repaired.
Resolution
Please refer to the attached Site History Report. Inspection reports are included in the ‘Condition Survey’ section and repair works are part of the ‘Maintenance Management’ section.
Files
- Request no. 37370. Received: 31/05/2022, Resolved: 30/06/2022
Japanese Knotweed
Amount (£) paid in compensation in relation to Japanese Knotweed growth during each years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Number of complaints brought each of the above-mentioned calendar years.
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- Request no. 37380. Received: 31/05/2022, Resolved: 27/06/2022
Terraced Properties Front Doors hinges
Please tell me if there has been any discussion in Townhall about noise reduction originating from front door closing / shutting in victorian era party walled terraced properties?
Resolution
We do not hold this information. Door fittings are mentioned briefly in our guidance on listed buildings and conservation areas.
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- Request no. 37415. Received: 31/05/2022, Resolved: 29/06/2022
CO2 emissions
Do you collect the data about the emissions and can you tie it to the car traffic inside the zones ? How do you collect that data? Can you share the data with the public and all other information requested.
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- Request no. 37563. Received: 11/05/2022, Resolved: 27/06/2022
Boat Green Parking - Zone N1
How many other Boat Green residents have been charged for parking in this Council Zone N1 Permit Holders Only area?
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