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Save Our Meadows

The Campaign continues

Annual General meeting

Our AGM is on Thursday 20th June at the Croquet Club at 7.30 pm. See the details.

Letters Page

See our Letters page. Your correspondence is invited! Please write to fombl@fombl.org.uk

How about volunteering?

Would you like to help us with some little jobs around the Meadows and Links? If so look here.


North Meadow Walk Latest

Work now in progress

Improvements are being made to North Meadow Walk, including resufacing, widening in places, and better markings. See the current plans.

New Rules for Parks

The City of Edinburgh Coucil has published new Management Rules for Public Parks and Greenspace, which came into force in February 2013. You can look at them here.

Events

We have been gathering data over the years about how much is paid for the use of the Meadows by the big events during the summer. Here is a table showing what we have found.

Barclay Corner

We have plans for the corner of the Links by Barclay Viewforth Church. Read all about them here.

Barbecues

There is more about barbecues below, and on our Current Issues page, but at this point we would like to let you know about recent moves - the 'pilot scheme' has run for a while and the Council has to decide what to do next. The FoMBL committee is of the opinion that the Meadows would be better if there were no barbecues, and we have written to the South Central Neighbourhood Partnership to that effect. See what we have written here.

Recycling

We are all in favour of recycling whenever possible, but we were very concerned when this appeared at the corner of Brunstfield Links:


Read about what happened next here.

Summer Time! How the summer 2012 unfolded

See our page of pictures of the wettest summer for several years.

Barbecues

Barbecue damage to the Meadows and Links is one of the things that concerns us.


The scene on the Meadows in the warm weather in March. (Front page of the Scotsman, 28/3/12. Photo Ian Rutherford)

Our advice - if you do barbecue on the Meadows or the Links:
  • Use one of the BBQ slabs or a barbecue on a stand
  • Don't put a hot barbecue on the grass
  • Wait for it to cool before you dispose of it
  • Please take your rubbish home - the bins aren't big enough
  • Don't ever BBQ on the golf course or the cricket squares
See the Council's leaflet on responsible barbecue use here.

Meadows Chamber Orchestra

Although they are nothing to do with FoMBL, the orchestra are good friends of ours, so we like to give them some publicity here.

For further information see their website.

© 2013 FoMBL