November Members Update

**Switch On Porty's Christmas- Thursday 8th Dec 2022- 5.30pm till 8pm**

Come see the Porty Christmas Tree Lights get switched on. Gather from 5.30pm to hear **Brass Blast** start the festivities, with tunes from **The Song Space Choir**, **Fun Fiddle** and **Shunpike Social Club**.

Bellfield mugs will be on sale at Keep Porty Tidy offices on the night to raise funds for **Action Porty**. Other local charities will be there too. **Portobello Central** will be selling Porty Food Maps and **PSKC/boat club** will have various craft items on offer.

Carry on the fun along the High Street, getting your Christmas shopping or catching up with friends in the many lovely local Porty Shops.
The Bellfield pom pom craft tree will be on show and the snowflake projection on Bellfield will return this year too.

**Window Wanderland 2022 from Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th Dec, between 5.30pm and 8.30pm**

Window Wanderland is back! This fantastic community driven event will cheer up people in these dark days. This year our theme will be a ‘Community Life’ display. This could mean something that to you reflects the spirit of the community in Portobello. It could be environmental improvements (litter/ beach cleaning, electric cars / bikes etc), leisure activities (wild swimming/ rowing, etc), a local charity, markets, community events– pretty much anything that represents the community to you. However, we don’t want to set any limits, your only boundary is your imagination!

If you would like to be part of the fun and create your own window, you can still register: https://www.windowwanderland.com/.../portobello-window.../
By registering, your address appears on a Portobello Window Wanderland event map (no names appear, and Windows Wanderland handle all the GDPR stuff). If you cannot register on the map area, contact the organiser

Have a look at last year's Window Wanderland video (courtesy of David Calder).

Screen Porty @ Bellfield Friday 9th December - Celebration Hall – 7pm till 9.30pm

Screen Porty @ Bellfield present their second screening, this time showing another classic, “Local Hero". Join us in the Celebration Foyer at 19.00 for some nibbles, drinks and chat, with the film starting in the Large Celebration Hall at 19.30. Please come along to support and be involved in community cinema. Tickets cost £5 and are available from screenporty@gmail.com or on the door on the night.

**The Song Space – Winter Showcase Wednesday 14 December- Celebration Hall- 7.30pm till 9.30pm**

Come along to hear and support all the wonderful singers. A mixture of soloist and choirs performing your favourite hits as well as some Christmas songs. Tickets cost £5 and are available via info@thesongspace.co.uk or via Eventbrite.

Planning application for E-cargo bike sheds

Action Porty and Porty Community Energy have been working together for some months to gain planning permission for a shed to store e-cargo bikes in the back garden at Bellfield. Can you support this application, and Edinburgh’s Councillors to make the right decision? Key points to make (in your own words if possible) include:

There is significant community benefit to this application, which outweighs all other matters

Installing bike hoops and building a permanent store for PCE’s e-cargo bike library will support multiple environmental, climate and transport policy targets e.g. in relation to greenhouse gas emissions reduction, improving air quality, establishing 20 minute neighbourhoods and increasing active travel.

The proposal will protect the gravemarkings.

The development will be discreetly located, not visible outside the site.

The development will not impact on the listed building.

To register your support, please click on this link and provide your views: https://citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=RLHQRXEWHSX00&activeTab=summary or search the Planning Portal (https://citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/search.do?action=simple&searchType=Application) with reference 22/05805/FUL.