Getting things done – Saggar Street #dundeewestend

At the most recent meeting of the Community Spirit Action Group, the residents’ group for the north of the West End Ward, concern was expressed at the damage to the council owned wall at the bottom of Saggar Street – see below :

I raised this with the City Council and have now been updated as follows by the Tenancy and Estates Team Leader:

“To help get this fixed, I asked one of the Tenancy Assistants to investigate and report back which he has now done. On inspection, he agreed the walls needs repaired, and in the interim, did what he could to make it safe.

In addition, he has logged a job for the wall to be rebuilt, the coping stone replaced and any rubble to be removed. The target date for the work is 27th June, but he has asked the Repairs Manager to assign the work as soon as possible.”

Getting things done – Glamis Terrace #dundeewestend

Residents have highliughted to me the need for posthole repairs in Glamis Terrace.

I took this up with the council’s Roads Maintenance Partnership and have received the following helpful response :

“An order has been raised for pothole repairs to be carried out.”

West End Community Council meeting tonight #dundeewestend

The Community Council meets this evening at Logie St John’s (Cross) Church Hall at 7pm – all residents welcome!

Here’s the agenda :

WEST END COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING

TUESDAY 11th JUNE 2019 AT 7.00PM

LOGIE AND ST JOHN`S (CROSS) PARISH CHURCH HALL

(ENTER FROM SHAFTESBURY TERRACE – OFF BLACKNESS AVENUE)

1. WELCOME AND APOLOGIES

2. MINUTE OF MEETING MAY 14TH 2019 AND MATTERS ARISING

3. CORRESPONDENCE

4. POLICE SCOTLAND UPDATE

5. PERTH ROAD PLACEMAKING PROJECT UPDATE – Russell Pepper and Graham Ross

6. WESTFEST

7. PLANNING UPDATE

8. COMMUNITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2019

9. OTHER MEETINGS ATTENDED ON BEHALF OF WECC

10. AOCB – MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC INPUT

11. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – TUESDAY 10th SEPTEMBER 2019

Light refreshments will be provided.

Weekly Road Report – West End Ward #dundeewestend

DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL – WEEKLY ROAD REPORT

REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD – WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 10 JUNE 2019

Blackness Road (Glamis Road to Blackness Avenue) – closed from Wednesday 5 June for 5 working days for carriageway patching and surface dressing works.

Brook Street (at Edward Street) – temporary traffic lights for one week for SSEN work.

Forthcoming Roadworks

Antiques Roadshow – Saturday 22 June: Earl Grey Place West, South Crichton Street, South Castle Street and Earl Grey Place East closed for 2 days. Sunday 23 June: South Commercial Street, Riverside Esplanade and Tay Road Bridge (westbound off-slip) closed for one day.

Shepherds Loan (at junction with Perth Road) – closed on Sunday 23 June for Scottish Water ironwork repairs.

Perth Road / Hawkhill / Blackness Avenue – temporary traffic lights (9.30am to 3.30pm) on Sunday 23 June for Scottish Water ironwork repair.

West End Reading Group meeting #dundeewestend

The West End Reading Group is a book club based at Blackness Library.

This book club is set up to encourage all people to read and become more aware of the literature of authors of African, Caribbean and African American heritage.

Meeting 5.30pm to 6.30pm on the second Monday of every month and the next meeting is tomorrow – Monday 10th June – when it will discuss “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, the first volume of autobiography written by Maya Angelou.

In this book, she describes her childhood in the American South in the 1930s.

Maya Angelou won many awards including the National Medal of Arts, the Presidential Medal of freedom, the Lincoln Medal and the Norman Mailer Prize.

The group looks forward to welcoming you tomorrow at 5.30pm.