[ACE] save ACE - updated objection address!

Mon Jul 16 04:33:16 PDT 2007

SAVE THE AUTONOMOUS CENTRE OF 
EDINBURGH!

E MAIL OR WRITE TO EDINBURGH CITY 
COUNCIL

As you know the autonomous centre in 
edinburgh is now the only social centre left in 
scotland!!
We have been very lucky with our premises but now the 
landlord has put in a planning application to turn it into a flat.

We would greatly appreciate it if you would e mail or write to 
the Council planning department (address below) with a letter based on the 
attached template.  Personal letters are 
best obviously, but if you dont have time to do one, then it still really helps 
to send in the letter below, or one based on it.

If at all 
possible please write so that your letter would arrive for Friday 20th July or 
Monday 23rd July, failing that to arrive during the week ending Friday 
27th.  If you get this message too late for that, please send your letter 
in anyway, as it is very possible the decision may be 
delayed.

In your 
letter or e mail,  please remember 

- To 
include your  full name, POSTAL ADDRESS, the date, the planning reference 
number, and address of the premises.

- Be 
courteous!  Please remember you are writing to a council worker, not to the 
landlord!

- The comments have to be made 
to Edinburgh City Council, so when objecting to the planning application 
and praising the community facilities ACE provides,  please 
write in terms that the Council could identify with.

Thanks 
very much!

ace has the following 
facilities:

free film screenings/ workshops including womens health, 
massage, screenprinting, desktop publishing, a make -your-own-short film course 
for black and asian women aged 16-18/ cheapest photocopying in town/ free 
broadband access/ large library and archive/ various groups meet & operate 
there, edinburgh claimants (help and support for the unemployed and folk on low 
wages with benefits advice/ problems with their gas/electricity companies etc 
etc) , amina (help and support for muslim women), edinburgh chiapas solidarity 
group including fair trade coffee and products, womens health group putting on 
free courses, screenprinting collective, leith wholefood co-op, edinburgh IWW, 
and many others
we also have an extensive reference library of womens health 
books/ information, leith wholefoods (supplying affordable organic 
wholefoods)

many thanks,
nosh, on behalf of ace

ACE, 17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh EH7 
5HA

Tel 0131 
557 6242

Open tues 
1-4pm and saturday 10am - 6pm, plus for particular events and 
meetings.

ace at autonomous.org.uk

www.autonomous.org.uk

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SAMPLE LETTER OF OBJECTION

PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, THE DATE, AND THE PLANNING 
APPLICATION INFO, EVEN IN AN E MAIL, OTHERWISE THE COMMENTS WILL NOT BE 
CONSIDERED.

You can send exactly the message below, that would be great.  However 
personalising it makes it even more valuable.  If doing so, please remember 
the guidelines above, thanks.

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YOUR 
NAME

YOUR POSTAL 
ADDRESS

DATE

To

kirsty.hope at edinburgh.gov.uk

Planning and Strategy Department

for the attention of Kirsty Hope

Waverley Court

Level G2

4 East Market St

Edinburgh EH8 8BG

Re Planning 
Application 07/02348/FUL

17 West Montgomery 
Place, Edinburgh EH7 
5HA

Dear Edinburgh 
City Council

I wish to object 
to the application for planning permission to convert the above property into a 
flat.  This would result in the loss 
of the valuable community facility currently provided in these 
premises.

I consider that 
the ACE charity operating in 17 
West Montgomery Place provides a very useful resource 
in this neighbourhood, and serves a real local need.  The shop selling 
wholefood and fair trade products, the free internet and computer 
access, the advice given to people suffering debt and income-related problems, 
and many other facilities help many people, especially disadvantaged 
people.

The premises are used by several charities and voluntary groups, 
such as the Amina Group for Muslim women suffering domestic violence and other 
problems, and the Womens Health Workshops.

I understand 
that the Councils development policy, as outlined in the Edinburgh 
City Local Plan,  is to protect local shops, community halls and 
meeting rooms  I would urge that this policy be adhered to, and that this 
planning application be refused.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Yours 
sincerely

SIGNATURE/ 
NAME

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If you could also send a copy of your message to 
the local councillors for the Leith Walk ward, that would be great.

Here are their details.

Councillor Angela Blacklock (Labour)

angela.blacklock at edinburgh.gov.uk

Councillor Deidre Brock (Scottish National 
Party)

deidre.brock at edinburgh.gov.uk

Councillor Maggie Chapman (Green 
Party)

maggie.chapman at edinburgh.gov.uk

as she is on holiday, please also send to 

Councillor Alison Johnstone (Green 
Party)

alison.johnstone at edinburgh.gov.uk

Councillor Louise Lang (Liberal 
Democrats)

louise.lang at edinburgh.gov.uk

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