Who's watching you?

The Prestongrange and Cuthill community are the park's eyes and ears and are urged to report dog fouling, vandalism and other anti-social behaviour with the park.

East Lothian Council has set up a dedicated telephone helpline/e-mail address so you can report this or seek advice in a safe, easy and effective way.

Email: asb@eastlothian.gov.uk

Telephone: 0845 601 8518 or the police on 101

Report online here

In an emergency always dial 999.

The vast majority of visitors to Cuthill Park are considerate, respectful and law-abiding, however, to the few who are intent on criminality we would remind them.....

....you are being watched.

 

We love your photographs!

It makes us so happy to see photographs of people enjoying Cuthill Park so please, please do keep sending them to us!

You can either tweet us @cuthillpark or email friendsofcuthillpark@hotmail.com.

Paths Under Construction

Work is well under way in the community garden, with the foundations mostly down for the paths and the patio area in front of the container.

These paths are going to make things so much easier! The garden will be more accessible and there will be much less path maintenance required. We are looking forward to them being completed.

Meeting: 29 March 10a.m.

There will be a meeting of the Friends of Cuthill Park on Tuesday 29th March at 10 am at the Pennypit centre's cafe. Everyone is welcome to attend.


We will be discussing a few general 'housekeeping' items and making sure our current constitution meets the requirements of charitable status, as well as, time permitting, looking at the year ahead.

We hope to see you there.

A questionnaire on Urban Land Reform

We have been asked to share the following survey amongst people connected with Cuthill Park, to help the survey author, Adam Searle, in his research into urban land reform. If you have a few minutes to spare he would very much appreciate your filling in the survey for him.

The survey is available here:   https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/urbanlandreform

Adam says:

'I am a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, reading Ecological and Environmental Sciences. I am currently undertaking research for my dissertation thesis, which is focussed on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill 2015, particularly on the societal effects of community-centric urban land reform. I found Friends of Cuthill Park in the Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust directory, and think your opinions would help me greatly in my research.

I have developed a short questionnaire (10-15 minutes’ completion time) which I intend to use in order to gauge the attitudes and beliefs of contrasting communities likely to be affected by the proposed bill. 

Please feel free to circulate this survey amongst your colleagues. A wide range of responses will help me better understand the attitudes of individuals within different community groups toward urban land reform.'

Many thanks for your help.

Wet & muddy!

The path/track along the bottom of the park (through an almost-pond at the moment) now looks like this:

And around the corner to the community garden: 

This will allow the heavy machinery into the garden to do the scheduled work. 

The pile of topsoil has been spread over the garden, making it look rather wet, muddy & uninviting. Things will improve, we promise! 

And other (less earth-moving) changes: the fennel has been transplanted (in a hurry - feel free to adjust it if you're down there!) to get it out of the way of the planned pathway in the corner of the garden, which will lead out to the car park by the bowling club. There are a couple of rescued gooseberry bushes in there too, so we'll see how they settle in.

And all the raised beds have been claimed for the year, now. You can be put on a waiting list if you're interested in taking one on though :) 

Hardcore!

Machines moved on site today to dig out the park & lay hardcore for the path foundation. 

(Early morning photo, taken whilst walking my son's newspaper delivery route with him - it's not normally this gloomy-looking in the park!)