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 local Liberal Democrats have said Lothian Buses must learn lessons after a series of major local backlashes from people in Clermiston, Parkgrove, East Craigs and South Gyle over various bus service changes.
Ed recently attended a meeting organised by the North Gyle Flood Group to begin working with lots of stakeholders to fix the flooding issues in North Gyle.
Works to install traffic lights and pedestrian crossings at the junction of Craigs Road and Maybury Road still have no confirmed start date.
Work on the long-awaited lights-controlled crossing at the junction of Drum Brae North and Drum Brae Drive is now complete.
The Scottish Government are consulting on proposals to increase Council Tax on homes in bands E-H.
After the terrible fire at Craigievar House, the community came together to support residents whose lives has been turned upside down.
The implementation of the 30mph limit on several roads, including Glasgow Road, has been delayed further.
With the summer holidays upon us, we have managed to secure an extra large bin in the car park.
A trench has been left in the Park by energy works - Ed is working with the Friends to get it filled in properly.
With the Low Traffic Neighbourhood in Corstorphine in place for a few weeks now, the Lib Dem team have been running a survey to gather residents' views.
There is a desperate need for a pedestrian crossing on Clermiston Road, and there is now a site proposed at Clerwood Park.
Works have finally begun on the long-awaited lights controlled crossing at the Drum Brae/Drum Brae Drive junction.
