Community Councils

Community Council Elections 2025

Notice of Community Council Election 2025

A second call for nominations opened on 27 March 2025 and closed on 17 April 2025 for the following 8 community councils.

Craigmillar
Davidson’s Mains and Silverknowes
Firrhill
Hutchison / Chesser
Muirhouse / Salvesen
Old Town
Portobello
West Pilton / West Granton

Results for the second call for nominations are now available. Local interest group nomination results are also available.

Insufficient nominations were received to establish 7 community councils:

Craigmillar
Davidson’s Mains and Silverknowes
Firrhill
Hutchison / Chesser
Muirhouse/ Salvesen
Portobello
West Pilton/ West Granton

There is provision in the Scheme for Community Councils that 'A further request from 20 or more electors to the City of Edinburgh Council to make arrangements for the establishment of a community council under the terms of Section 52 (7) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 can be submitted after a standstill period of six months'

Postponement of Community Council Induction Events - Saturday 26 and Monday 28 April 2025

You may be aware, sadly Councillor Val Walker has unexpectedly passed away. Cllr Walker represented the residents of Fountainbridge and Craiglockhart with great passion and diligence and was a huge champion of our cultural and community services. In her role of convenor of the Culture and Communities Committee, she was a huge advocate and supporter of community councils.

Cllr Walker was due to play a significant part in the induction events planned for Saturday 26 and Monday 28 April, welcoming you to your new roles and sharing some of her own anecdotes of the successes of community councils. We have made the difficult decision to postpone these events in light of her passing.

We have already been in touch with the EACC on our decision. In tribute, the EACC recorded: "She has been a warm, understanding and sincere support to the city's community councils and to EACC. We have been the better for the lead she gave us."

We understand this will be disappointing news for those of you who were due to attend, however we will look to reschedule and will be in touch with further arrangements in due course

Contact your local community council

If you would like to find out which community council is local to you and contact the currrent members for more information about what they do, you can get details on either

You can also fiind out more about the important role commmnity councils play on the Scottish community council website. The website has lots of resources as well as case studies and videos on the work of community councils.