The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will be offered to some children and young people aged 12 years and over with specific underlying health conditions that put them at risk of serious COVID-19.

REPORT FOR WEST END WARD – WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 19 JULY 2021

City Fibre H3G Project – rolling road closures commencing on Tuesday 15 June for 7 weeks.  Polepark Road, Brewery Lane, Brown Street and South Ward Road to follow in July.

Blinshall Street (Lochee Road to Guthrie Street) – temporary traffic control from Monday 5 July for 4 weeks for Street Lighting work.

City Road – road closed between junctions with Pentland Avenue and Rosefield Street for Road Safety Improvement Works.  Starts Monday 19 July for 5 days.

Tay Street Lane – closed overnight (7.30pm to 6.30am) on Friday 23 July for Scottish Water work.

Nethergate (at Tay Street Lane) – overnight (7.30pm to 6.30am) traffic control on Friday 23 July for Scottish Water work.

Forthcoming Roadworks

Nethergate – closure of the junction with South Tay Street on Monday 26 July for one week for carriageway resurfacing.

Abbotsford Street – temporary traffic lights on Wednesday 28 July for telecoms mast work.

Lochee Road (at Blinshall Street) – off peak temporary traffic lights from Friday 30 July to Tuesday 3 August for new telecoms apparatus.

Larch Street – closed from 16 August for 6 days for road resurfacing.

City Fibre – closures of Lochee Road (Dudhope Terrace to Black Street) from 1 August for 3 days.

A resident recently contacted me about overgrown foliage on Riverside Drive near to the roundabout with Riverside Avenue, stating :

“Branches are overhanging shared footpath/cycle path. 

Because cyclists are higher above ground level when seated there’s a need to “duck” to avoid direct contact with the branches to face or head.”

I raised this with the City Council and the foliage has now been cut back.

From the City Council :

THE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1)

THE DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL AS TRAFFIC AUTHORITY being satisfied that traffic on the road should be prohibited by reason of carriageway resurfacing and road safety improvement works being carried out HEREBY PROHIBIT the driving of any vehicle in City Road (between Baxter Street and Milnbank Gardens), Dundee.

This notice comes into effect on Monday 19 July for 5 working days.

Pedestrian thoroughfare will be maintained.

Alternative routes for vehicles are available via Pentland Avenue / Balgay Road / Blackness Road / Rosefield Street.

For further information contact 433082.

Executive Director of City Development

Dundee City Council

New arrangements for compensation to farmers, steps to tackle TB in wildlife, the testing of non-bovines for bTB, and the increased use of the interferon gamma blood test in cattle will all be consulted upon as part of a new long-term strategy to eradicate bovine TB (bTB) from Northern Ireland, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots announced today.