Former colleague Archie Martin

Sadly we have been advised of the sudden death of former East Lothian Council colleague, Archie Martin.

Archie came to East Lothian Council from Orkney Islands Council in October 1990 though he was originally from Musselburgh.   Archie worked in Planning as a landscape architect, though he also had a qualification in Planning, dealing with many of the Council’s environmental improvement projects throughout East Lothian under the Scotland’s Gardens Programme banner.

These included the gateway signs and planters to many of East Lothian’s towns and villages, the work on Court Street in Haddington to re-landscape the front of the Council Buildings and Corn Exchange, which used to be a car park, and at Civic Square and Winton Place in Tranent.  He also worked on environmental works to improve the common areas of many of the Council housing areas.  He also approved work to trees in conservation areas and to tree preservation orders, and provided advice on the landscape aspects of planning applications including appearing at local plan public Inquiries and planning appeals.

Archie took flexible retirement in 2010 and fully retired from the Council in December 2013.

His funeral is tomorrow (Weds 25 July) at 11am at Yester Kirk, Gifford to which friends are invited.