
Road and Pavement Repairs - Drum Brae/Gyle
The roads and pavements that will be repaired in the new financial year have been announced.
Drum Brae/Gyle ward covers the communities of Barntongate, Bughtlin, Clermiston, Clerwood, Drum Brae, East Craigs, Forrester Park, North Gyle, Parkgrove, South Gyle and 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 believes in ensuring our communities across Drum Brae / Gyle ward receive the best possible Council services.
Together with Councillor Robert Aldridge, he is campaigning for:
He sits on the Culture and Communities and Planning 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.
The roads and pavements that will be repaired in the new financial year have been announced.
Following the news that the operators of the Duart Crescent Post Office have decided to sell, Christine visited to learn about how many postmasters are having to make difficult decisions.
The 31 bus service continues to suffer from delays and sometimes not turn up at all. We are working with Lothian to improve this.
For years, the state of the road surface on Parkgrove Drive and Loan has been truly awful – and it has been the single issue that residents in Parkgrove have raised with us most frequently.
The reduction in service of the 31 to every 15 minutes has not resulted in the promised improved reliability.
With Meadow Place Road closed southbound, there have been long queues both west and east of the Drum Brae roundabout.
Work has been delayed, leaving residents frustrated at the lack of progress.
The Council has set its budget for the coming year, with Lib Dem proposals securing investment on a number of key priorities, including road repairs and flooding.
The resurfacing of roads in Craigmount has been continuing, with work started on Craigmount Avenue North and due soon on Craigmount Park.
We are very concerned that the pedestrian crossing outside St Thomas' Church has still not been restored. Local councillor Ed Thornley said, "The...
The Corstorphine Christmas Support Project is taking place right across the area (including all communities in Drum Brae/Gyle) again this year.
Residents in Clerwood recently presented us with a petition calling for proper solutions to the dangerous parking situation around St Andrews and Fox Covert Primaries.