Leith Walk
Jack represents the Leith Walk ward, which covers Bonnington, Broughton, Hillside, Pilrig and South Leith.
He sits on the Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work and Regulatory Committees, the Lothian Valuation Joint Board and the Licensing Sub-Committee.
Jack Caldwell, 29, has lived in a council flat in the heart of the Leith Walk Ward since he was four years old, in 1997, attending the local schools, Boy’s Brigade and Scout troop. Jack’s workplace is just off Leith Walk, where he is an IT technician for a local independent arts charity.
Jack is an active volunteer in the area, running a local Cub Scout troop, and was an active member of the local Leith Community Council, which has recently seen him standing up to profit-driven developers. In this role he is working constructively with people and organisations across Broughton, Bonnington, Abbeyhill, Pilrig, Easter Road, Hillside, Powderhall and Leith.
Jack's fighting to get on top of the overflowing bins and recycling bins issues, improve pedestrian and cycling facilities like pavements and paths, stop people getting priced-out of the area by supporting new social-rent homes and affordable home ownership, sensibly regulate Short Term Lets to stem the depletion of existing housing stock, rapidly expand the amount of urban trees along Leith Walk and the nearby streets, ensure Leith Walk and North East Edinburgh recieves it's fair share of Council funding and to stop the cuts to local services, such as school budgets and communtiy police and obtain better communication from the Council on utility works, like the tramline installation.
From Councillor Jack Caldwell.
Tomorrow, 19th January, Scottish Water will be at their site cabin from 3pm - 6pm for local residents to ask questions about the closure of Albert Street.
The Participatory Budgeting event allows everyone who lives, works or volunteers in Leith, Pilrig, Hillside, Broughton, Easter Road or Bonnington to cast a vote for new community projects.
With Small Business Saturday on November 26th, Councillor Jack Caldwell made three asks from the Council administration to help support Leith's small indepdendent shops
It's been a few months since the new bin hubs were rolled out across Leith, Pilrig, Bonnington, Abbeyhill and Easter Road and your views are wanted.
Next year, the Council are hoping to install EV chargers on the east side of St Clair Road, just off Easter Road (with double yellows on nearby corners).
The Trams to Newhaven project have just published their updated completion dates down Leith Walk.
Last week, Cllr Jack Caldwell submitted a deputation to the Transport and Environment Committe regarding the new communal bin / recycling hubs in Leith, Abbeyhill, Bonnington and Pilrig (plus Broughton, Canonmills and Hillside from 2023).
Ground-floor accessible flats in areas like Leith, Broughton, Bonnington and Hillside are vital to allow people with mobility issues to remain in our community.
The newly approved N1 parking zones in the respective Leith and Pilrig Conservation Areas will be given consdieration in regards to new signage and furniture.
Councillor Jack Caldwell has taken on-board concerns from constituents in Canonmills about the proposed development, and as such has written an objection.
We the undersigned call on the Scottish Government to commit funding to stop the practice of CSO dumping and Scottish Water to install more monitors as a matter of priority.
