Residents have highlighted with me the overgrown foliage around the Union Place car park and the need for a tidy up of the car park and surrounding area.
I have raised this with the car parking and environment teams at the City Council, calling for a tidy up.
Residents have complained to me that the small lane to the east of of 29 Roseangle is so overgrown it is almost impossible to go up it.
As residents know, councillors were not able to hold their weekly ward surgeries at schools and libraries since the start of the COVID-19 health emergency, but I am pleased to advise of the one new weekly ward surgery I am now able to start.
From today – Tuesday 14th September – and during school term times, my new surgery time and location is :
Tuesdays at 3.30pm prompt at Blackness Library
All welcome and no need to book. The library has appropriate safety measures in place to ensure a COVID-safe environment, including hand sanitisers and use of face coverings.
Unfortunately, due to COVID-related restrictions and venue availability, my very long-standing surgeries at Blackness Primary School’s staff room and at the Mitchell Street Centre will no longer be possible.
However, once access to school premises for councillors’ surgeries is again permitted with COVID restrictions easing, I hope that, later in the autumn, I will be returning to a surgery at Harris Academy. I hope to also run one at Ancrum Road Primary School.
Both will also take place on Tuesdays – with details to follow.
REPORT FOR WEST END WARD – WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
A90 Kingsway (at Invergowrie roundabout) – lane closures for 4 weeks for third party works.
Glamis Road (at Elliot Road) – temporary traffic lights on Monday 13 September for BT work.
Forthcoming Roadworks
Lochee Road (at Tullideph Road) – temporary traffic lights from Friday 16 September for one day for advertising board installation.
South Tay Street – temporary traffic lights from Monday 20 September for 2 weeks for footway works.
Nethergate (West Marketgait to South Tay Street) – closed on Tuesday 21 and Tuesday 28 September for Scottish Water investigation work.
Lochee Road (at Balgayview Gardens) – temporary traffic lights from Friday 24 September for one week for SGN work.
Blackness Avenue – closed from Monday 4 October for 4 weeks for carriageway resurfacing.
The school crossing patroller on Milnbank Road near Milnbank Gardens recently retired.
Tayside Contracts, who provide the service for the City Council, has not replaced the patroller, saying the crossing does not meet its criteria for allowing a crossing, in terms of pupils using it and vehicle movements.
I am very unhappy about this decision becuase the crossing is at a crucial location as vehicles come down the hill at City Road towards the site and I feel strongly that a crossing patroller is needed here.
I have therefore put in a formal objection to the removal of the patroller at this location.