Granton Information Centre

134-138 West Granton Road, Edinburgh, EH5 1PE, Tel: 01315511459

Free and Confidential advice on benefits, debt, housing and employment.

For housing advice (including fuel and council tax), phone for an appointment on Monday or Wednesday morning.  For general advice, phone for an appointment. Patients at Muirhouse Medical centre can see Advice Worker, Tues 2pm-4pm.

Muirhouse Citizens Advice Bureau

31-33 Pennywell Road, Edinburgh, Tel: 0131 510 5510

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/

Drop in Monday to Friday 9:30am-12:30pm

The Advice Shop (City of Edinburgh Council)

249 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1YJ, Tel: 2002360, advice.shop@Edinburgh.gov.uk, http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/

Money, welfare rights, council tax and fuel and debt advice

Drop in Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 8.30am-4.30pm

Shelter, The Houisng and Homelessness Charity

Phone on Adviser on 08088004444, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm https://scotland.shelter.org.uk/

Housing Option Team(Cit of Edinburgh Council)

Tel: 01315297438, http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/

Call in Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 8.30am-5pm, Tues 10am-5pm, Friday 8.30am-3.40pm

Civil Legal Assistance

91 Haymarket Terrace, Tel: 03132401960 or email: infopvs.slab.org.uk, http://www.clao.org.uk/home

Gives legal help to people affected by the economic downturn and particularly people facing eviction or mortgage repossession.

Edinburgh Cyrenians

Tel: 01314752354 or email: info@cyrenains.org.uk, https://cyrenians.scot/

Offers advice on problems with your landlord, difficulty claiming benefits, or paying rent, mortgage or other debts.

Housing Benefit Inquiries (City of Edinburgh Council)

Income and Benefits, Customer Service, Corporate Government, PO Box 1233, Edinburgh, EH7 9DN, Tel: -01316081111, Email: incomebenefits@Edinburgh.gov.uk, http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/

Drylaw Police Station

in an emergency call 999, to contact the police station call 101

Muirhouse Doctors Surgery

Tel : 01315374343

Muirhouse All Care Centre

Te: 01312865200

MyDentist

Tel: 01313152666

Bin-Strike Disruption 18th-30th August 2022

Bin-Strike Throughout Edinburgh from 18th – 30th August 2022

 

A bin collection strike is taking place throughout Edinburgh.  It will run from Thursday 18th – Tuesday 30th August 2022. Strike Disruption Poster

We appreciate that this strike has the potential to cause problems regarding disposing rubbish within Muirhouse.  Please continue to use your allocated bins for as long as possible.  If/when all the bins in your street become full, only then seek out another suitable bin to use nearby.  Also, please read the formal information that Edinburgh Council has released. You can do this by using the three links in this page.  Unfortunately, we have absolutely no control over this situation.  Edinburgh Council only informed us about the strike late in the day on Wednesday 17th August.

Edinburgh Council could settle the strike before the stated 12 days. We hope that this happens.  However, for now, we must proceed on the information given to us.  That is that the strike will last until 30th August unless we are told otherwise.  It is a bad enough situation to have bins overflowing with rubbish uncollected for 12 days. We must avoid the potential situation where rubbish is dumped in streets.  When we receive any updates on the situation, we will inform you immediately both on the website and on our social media pages.

To find out how you will be affected, and what you can do, please visit www.edinburgh.gov.uk/binstrike

We have more information to share with you from Edinburgh Council.  We received this on Tuesday 23rd August and it relates to the on-going bin-strike.  You can read this information, Edinburgh Council’s ongoing bin-strike FAQs, here: – Strike FAQs