Councillor Jack Caldwell

Councillor Jack Caldwell

Leith Walk

Jack represents the Leith Walk ward, which covers Bonnington, Broughton, Hillside, Pilrig and South Leith.

He sits on the Governance, Risk and Best Value and Regulatory Committees, the Lothian Valuation Joint Board and the Licensing Sub-Committee.

Jack Caldwell, 32, 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 was an IT technician for a local independent arts charity just off Leith Walk for over 10 years.

Jack is an active volunteer in the area, having ran a local Cub Scout troop, and previously an active member of the local Leith Community Council before being elected to the City of Edinburgh Council, which has 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.

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