Drum Brae/Gyle ward covers the communities of Barntongate, Bughtlin, Clermiston, Clerwood, Drum Brae, East Craigs, Forrester Park, North Gyle, Parkgrove, South Gyle and parts of West Craigs.
Working as a team with Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP and Christine Jardine MP, local councillors Robert Aldridge and Ed Thornley are strong voices for the area and fight hard to get things done locally.
Ed has been a councillor since 2022, and lives locally in East Craigs. He is currently the Leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the Council.
Together with Councillor Robert Aldridge, he is campaigning for:
He sits on the Culture & Communities and Policy & Sustainability Committees.
Robert has been a councillor for Drum Brae/Gyle for over 30 years and he lives locally in Barntongate.
Robert was unanimously elected as Edinburgh's Lord Provost, meaning he chairs meetings of the Council and is also the civic head of the city and the ex-officio Lord Lieutenant of Edinburgh.
Robert has a long record of service and action for and with the local community and he has a strong reputation for getting things done.
For all his time as a councillor, Robert has fought to protect local green spaces from development. Most recently he opposed the recently rejected development proposals for yet more housing on greenbelt at Cammo.
After it was rejected by the Council, a proposal to build on the land between the new Cammo development and Craigs Road has been rejected by the Scottish Government.
Long awaited work to widened, resurface and properly light the path running behind Torwood Crescent has finally been agreed, and will be included on a contract due to start in early December.
The Lib Dem team have been working with the Friends of Clermiston Park to try and speed up work to replace the play park in Clermiston Park.
Local Lib Dem councillor Ed Thornley has been pushing the Council to take action on the appalling state of the paths in East Craigs.
After a petition by Gogarloch residents was submitted to the Council’s Transport Committee, safety concerns on Gogarloch Road will be considered for funding next year.
The Council has confirmed that, when work to replace the main building at the Fox Covert campus begins, the school will not be decamped and will remain on site.
The Council has announced plans to install a bus gate on Turnhouse Road.
The path - part of the West Edinburgh Link project - will be part of the first stage of works.
After years of campaigning Parkgrove Drive has finally been resurfaced, with road safety measures to tackle rat-running still to come.
With work well underway at the junction, residents have raised concerns about the volume of traffic on Turnhouse Road - especially once schools go back in August.
Concerns have been raised around repeated break-ins at the empty Craigievar House
Two years ago, the Council resurfaced half of Clermiston Crescent - now they have finally completed the job!