As part of East Lothian’s Local Development Plan Community Councils and individuals across the county were asked to take part in the process, offering their views and key concerns. These will hopefully be taken up by ELC and replace the current East Lothian Local Plan 2008. Read on to view Pencaitland’s submission…
East Lothian Council is preparing a new Local Development Plan. This will be a new land-use strategy that will eventually replace the existing East Lothian Local Plan 2008. At this …
Unfortunately we have to report another car crash at the exact same spot to the incident reported just before Christmas.
Today’s winds came as quite a surprise to a number of villagers. Reports earlier today said that there could be gusts as high as 95mph across parts of the central belt, with structural damage expected. There are unconfirmed reports of gusts of over 100mph in Edinburgh.
You may be interested to know that the Visit East Lothian website, featured in our Useful Links page, includes a section on cycling around the county. It includes handy cycle maps in PDF format you can download.
Efforts to raise the much needed target figure of £70,000 to make the local church wind and water-tight received a boost with the news that the jam-packed Silent Auction, recently held at Pencaitland Bowling Club, raised the impressive sum of £3,368.83.
Some community members may have already received a leaflet through the door promoting the Handicabs Lothian service. It’s a Scottish charity based in the Lothians which operates a transport service for people with a range of disabilities and health needs who are unable, or have great difficulty, in using transport.
East Lothian Council has approved a consultation for a Supplementary Landscape Capacity Study for Smaller Wind Turbines. The study focuses on capacity within the East Lothian landscape for accommodating smaller …
The 10th Annual Edinburgh, Lothians and Borders Archaeology Conference will be held at Queen Margaret University on Saturday 19th November. Topics include an update on the archaeology from the Edinburgh …
As part of the Council’s commitment to improving services a review of libraries in the County has taken place. This has resulted in changes to the opening hours of most libraries. Haddington Library continues to operate the same opening hours, but changes have been made at Ormiston and Tranent. More…