{"id":7266,"date":"2023-02-22T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/?p=7266"},"modified":"2023-02-22T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T12:00:10","slug":"community-councillor-for-innerwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2023\/02\/community-councillor-for-innerwick\/","title":{"rendered":"East Lammermuir Community Council seeks Community Councillor for Innerwick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Want to do more for your local community of Innerwick?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">East Lammermuir Community Council, covers Innerwick, Oldhamstocks, Spott, Stenton, and surrounding areas.&nbsp; We are seeking a person to take on the role of Community Councillor for Innerwick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is open to anyone living or working in the East Lammermuir area with an interest in and connection to the Innerwick area.&nbsp; The Community Council is able to fill this vacancy by co-opting a suitable person to serve from now until the next community council elections in September 2026.&nbsp; There are 2 community councillors for each village, and at present we have one vacancy for Innerwick ward.&nbsp; This covers the village of Innerwick, plus Thurston, Thorntonloch, Branxfield, Blackcastle and Crowhill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposed electricity infrastructure works mean that there will be very significant developments in this area over the next decade, bringing both challenges and opportunity for the local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The role is to work as part of East Lammermuir Community Council to improve quality of life for people who live and work in East Lammermuir.&nbsp; In part through representing the local community, seeking to liaise with other local bodies, developers, and East Lothian Council and the East Lothian Health &amp; Social Care Partnership and NHS Lothian, and Police Scotland. Also through administering community benefits funds.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This includes nine Community Council meetings a year which usually take place on Tuesday evenings, held in the four village halls in turn.&nbsp; There may be other roles which your skill set fits you to fulfil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting calendar and lots of other relevant information is published on our website <a href=\"https:\/\/elcc.scot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elcc.scot<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you would like to know more about what\u2019s involved email <a href=\"mailto:chair@elcc.scot\">chair@elcc.scot<\/a> to arrange a chat in the first instance.&nbsp; An informal interview will be arranged for all interested candidates, to take place March 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to do more for your local community of Innerwick? East Lammermuir Community Council, covers Innerwick, Oldhamstocks, Spott, Stenton, and surrounding areas.&nbsp; We are seeking a person to take on the role of Community Councillor for Innerwick. This is open to anyone living or working in the East Lammermuir area with an interest in and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2023\/02\/community-councillor-for-innerwick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;East Lammermuir Community Council seeks Community Councillor for Innerwick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":7271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-noticeboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}