Drum Brae/Gyle (ward)

Drum Brae/Gyle ward
Location of the ward within Edinburgh[1]

Drum Brae/Gyle is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council.[2] Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it currently elects three Councillors.

The ward covers an area in the far west of the city, bounded generally by Corstorphine Hill, the Queensferry Road (A90), Maybury Road (A902) and Edinburgh City Bypass (A720) roads, and the Glasgow–Edinburgh via Falkirk line railway; it includes the Bughtlin, Clermiston, Clerwood, Craigmount, Drumbrae, East Craigs, Gogarloch, Maybury, North Gyle, Parkgrove, South Gyle and West Craigs neighbourhoods,[3] as well as the Edinburgh Park commercial district. A minor boundary change in 2017 caused the loss of the Wester Broom neighbourhood and the addition of Forrester with a negligible effect on the population, which in 2019 stood at 23,534.[4]

  1. ^ "Map of City of Edinburgh wards, councillors and MSPS".
  2. ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  3. ^ News Index Archived 4 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Edinburgh Liberal Democrats
  4. ^ Electoral Ward: Drum Brae/Gyle, Scottish Government Statistics