Victoria Park – new tennis courts #dundeewestend

Having updated residents over the past few years over the council’s proposals to improve the tennis courts at Victoria Park, it is great to see the new tennis courts now complete and looking great!

There’s been very positive feedback from constituents.   “Before” and “after” photos below :
I’m pictured a few years ago at the old tennis courts – above

The new tennis courts are a very substantial improvement



Draft Local Outcome Improvement Plan – Consultation

From the Dundee Partnership Team :

Our plans to improve Dundee

The Dundee Partnership is determined to make Dundee a more successful and fairer city and we’ve been preparing our ideas and plans about how we will do this over the next ten years. 

We’ve prepared a draft Local Outcome Improvement Plan for 2017-26 that builds on the ongoing extensive community engagement undertaken by partners and agencies across the city.     It also incorporates the results of the Engage Dundee process.    So we’ve been listening carefully to your views and we hope that this plan shows that we know what your priorities are.   Read the draft here.

But this is still a consultation draft so at this stage we are describing our city, the economic and social outcomes we are determined to achieve, and setting out our priorities for action.
Over the next few months we will be collecting the most accurate and informative performance indicators to help us map out our progress and setting targets to stretch us to do better. Our final version will be published by October 2017.

We are already thinking about some of the ways we can improve it by doing things like –

–      making it shorter and clearer 
–      summarising our strengths and achievements as a city as well as the challenges we face
–      pulling out lots of information that is in other plans and providing links to them instead
–      saying more about how the third and private sectors do and will contribute to improving Dundee
–      spelling out our ideas around green spaces and biodiversity

Please let us know what you think by 18 August. To gather your views, we’ve prepared a feedback form that can be found on the Dundee Partnership website here, it can be completed online or downloaded for completion and emailed to us at dundee.partnership@dundeecity.gov.uk or hard copies posted to Dundee Partnership Team, Floor 4, 5 City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BG. 



Weekly Road Report – West End Ward #dundeewestend

DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL – WEEKLY ROAD REPORT

REPORT FOR WEST END WARD – WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 24 JULY 2017

Riverside Esplanade/Riverside Drive (Tay Road Bridge off ramp to 75m along Riverside Drive) – westbound nearside lane closure for 19 weeks to facilitate V&A construction works.

SSE Glenagnes Cable Renewal – Lochee Road lane restrictions and closures on Blinshall Street, Fleuchar Street and Scott Street for 4 weeks.

A85 Riverside Drive – prohibition of right turn from westbound lane of Riverside Drive into Riverside approach and prohibition of right turn from Riverside Approach in to Riverside Drive for 20 weeks for works to the sea wall.  Prohibitions will only be in place when required.

Perth Road (Hawkhill to Roseangle) – closed from Monday 24 July for 4 weeks for carriageway resurfacing.

Blackness Road (at Hyndford Street) – temporary traffic lights on Monday 24 July for Scottish Water ironwork repair.



Seabraes – looking superb again this year! #dundeewestend

I have highlighted over numerous past years the superb job the City Council made of Seabraes planting each year.    
2017 is again no exception – see below – a real credit to the City Council’s environment team in Neighbourhood Services :



Dundee Botanic Garden’s Mad Hatter’s tea party

Children aged 3-10 years are invited to bring your families along to the Garden for a Mad Hatter’s tea party on the afternoon of 30th July.   Arrive in time to get your picnic set out for a 3pm start.

Entertainment will be provided by the University’s JOOT theatre group, so you might want to brush up on your Alice in Wonderland characters before you come!

Bring your own picnic and some rugs to sit on for the tea party, and wear a MAD HAT.    You might want to make your own?

There is no charge for this event, but numbers will be strictly limited to 20 children so booking is essential.   Please book by e-mailing here.