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.
Today Councillor Jack Caldwell accomponied local volunteers along with the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) along Leith Walk to demonstrate the barriers that people with sight loss can experience navigating streets.
A Liberal Democrat amemdment to revisit the positioning of bin hubs unfortunately wasn't passed.
The development near Canonmills won't be heard at the planning committee.
An update on pavement resurfacing and traffic issues along Dalmeny Street
The physical rollout of the Controlled Parking Zones will begin in the coming weeks.
This morning, the junction between Cambridge Avenue and Pilrig Street was re-closed and the 'No Entry' signs in Arthur Street were removed, closing the one-way system.
Buses, including the 7, 11, 14, 16 and 25 are returning down Leth Walk both directions from 10am tomorrow!
The Trams to Newhaven Project published a major update on Friday including two-way traffic and public realm announcements.
There are open Traffic Regulation Orders that impact the wider Leith Walk community that residents may wish to comment on via the Council's website before councillors make a decision.
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
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.
