Belmont Gardens Access

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City Cllr Beal said at the 13 May 2025 Community Council meeting that the City Council's Transport and Environment Committee's (TEC) June meeting will be updated on 'emergency yellow lines' following his earlier Full City Council motion and subsequent TEC discussion. The original motion was inspired in part by on-going access difficulties in Belmont Gardens.

Previously:

[22/06/2024] Local residents have compiled evidence to urge the provision of yellow lines in Belmont Gardens. Especially since the enforcement of the pavement parking ban, the street has been rendered often inaccessible, which exposes residents to safety risks. Given the risks, City Cllr Beal has been pursuing the need for a speedier solution than going through the lengthy standard process, as has been done for other streets in the city with the same difficulty. He reported at the meeting 21 May that it had been escalated to the City Council's Chief Executive.

[23/10/2024] City Cllr Beal reported at the 22 October 2024 meeting that he has been promoting new policy at the City of Edinburgh Council to make it easier to identify and respond to cases where there is an urgent need for yellow lines. Such a need has existed in Belmont Gardens for many months. Elsewhere, Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders have sometimes been issued to ensure refuse collection and emergency vehicle access. Cllr Beal hopes to: make more clear the means by which this need can be reported; make more objective and consistent the resulting action.

[Sources: Minutes of 16/04/2024; 21/05/2024; 22/10/24; 13/05/2025]

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