Category: Local Place Plan

  • Warm Homes Project Residents’ Meeting

    Warm Homes Project Residents’ Meeting

    Update: 06/08/26 Presentation slides Residents’ Information Evening on Tuesday 30th June at 7pm in Innerwick Old School Locally-based and community-owned Lothian Heat CIC has been appointed by ELCC to deliver the Warm Homes Project. The East Lammermuir Warm Homes Project has experienced a high volume of sign-ups since we launched last week! We’ve decided to hold a Residents’ Information…

  • NnG Community Fund – August 2026

    NnG Community Fund – August 2026

    East Lammermuir community fund from NnG offshore wind

  • East Lammermuir Warm Homes Project

    With fuel prices rising, many East Lammermuir residents have already shown their interest in improving energy efficiency and moving away from reliance on fossil fuels. From the early work done by Insulate Innerwick, the Energy Efficiency workshop in October 2025, and opportunity for homeowners & tenants to have thermal imaging carried out by Community Heat…

  • Community Development Officer Opportunity

    Community Development Officer Opportunity

    Job opportunity live today! Application deadline 15 June 2026 East Lothian Climate Hub (external link — opens in a new tab) have been invited by East Lammermuir Community Council to host a Community Development Officer role, to lead on coordination of delivery of our 4 community ambitions in East Lammermuir. Our priority areas from the Local Place Plan are…

  • Taking forward our community ambitions

    Taking forward our community ambitions

    Over the autumn and winter months we held a series of workshops looking at next steps for the 4 community ambitions (external link — opens in a new tab) drawn from the East Lammermuir Local Place Plan (external link — opens in a new tab). We are delighted to share the reports from each workshop with you! Click…

  • Community Transport Survey

    Community Transport Survey

    East Lammermuir Community Council, in partnership with the East Lothian Climate Hub, are seeking views of local residents across East Lammermuir and surrounds, and people who work in the area, to help us better understand your transport needs. The East Lammermuir Local Place Plan identifies the community ask that a public or community transport service should be re-introduced to link…

  • Community Transport Workshop

    One of our four community ambitions is that a public or community transport service should be re-introduced to link the villages with Cockburnspath and Dunbar. We are holding a workshop on this theme on the evening of Thursday 22nd January in Stenton Village Hall, 6-9pm, to explore options together. Community Transport Association and East Lothian…

  • Free heat surveys!

    Free heat surveys!

    Following on from the Energy Efficiency workshop in October, alongside Sustaining Dunbar and Insulate Innerwick’s work, you now have the opportunity over the coming weeks to have your home surveyed with a thermal imaging camera for free by a trained member of Sustaining Dunbar’s Community Heat Team. East Lammermuir’s ambition is for “all properties within…

  • Active travel and walking survey

    Active travel and walking survey

    Let us know your views by 4th December! Fill in the online form here (external link — opens in a new tab) Following last night’s Active Travel workshop, we are sharing an opportunity for residents and visitors to share your experiences of walking, cycling or other forms of active travel in East Lammermuir and any…

  • Taking forward our community priorities

    Taking forward our community priorities

    Our series of workshops looking at next steps for the 4 community priorities (external link — opens in a new tab) drawn from the East Lammermuir Local Place Plan (external link — opens in a new tab), are well underway! The first workshop was held on 9th October and focused on Energy Efficiency. The facilitator (Energy Saving Trust) is now working on…

  • Beth’s Blog – Delving deeper

    Beth’s Blog – Delving deeper

    As summer draws to a close, I am rapidly approaching six months in this “new” role. Since I last wrote the pace has picked up significantly as the path forward takes shape and it’s time to delve deeper (to mix metaphors!). The focus so far has mainly been on getting to know the lay of the…

  • Beth’s blog – tools for partnerhip working

    Beth’s blog – tools for partnerhip working

    I write looking out at the Lammermuir Hills, waiting for the combine harvester to start work and watching the swallows darting about. As we get into the quieter summer holiday weeks, when there aren’t quite so many emails flying about, I am taking time to reflect on these first three months in post.  What has…