Weekly Road Report – West End Ward #dundeewestend

DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL – WEEKLY ROAD REPORT


REPORT FOR WEST END WARD – WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2021

Strawberrybank – closed at Perth Road (for a distance of 40 metres) for 4 weeks for chimney repairs.

Blackness Road (at Seymour Street) – temporary traffic lights from Monday 29 November to Wednesday 1 December for BT work.

Perth Road (junction with Invergowrie Drive) – 3 way temporary lights from 29 November for 4 days for City Fibre works.

Forthcoming Roadworks

Tay Square – closed on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 December for Virgin Media work.


Blether Tay-Gither – Storytelling in Dundee

Blether Tay-Gither is the Dundee Storytelling Group.


From Sheila Kinninmonth, Blether Tay-Gither’s secretary :

Hope you can join us for our November Blether on Zoom!

Tuesday 30th November 7pm to 9pm

Our theme if you want one is “Hills and Glens”

Bringing the theme into the landscape of Scotland for November. Stories abound in the hills and glens, those of real life and those of legend and the supernatural. 
Join us this month and share a story, it could even be a personal anecdote about an experience in the hills and glens.

Log in details are :

Topic: Blether Tay-Gither
Time: Nov 30, 2021 07:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87986285393


West End Christmas Fortnight 2021 – starts today! #dundeewestend


West End Christmas Fortnight starts today, a whole fortnight packed with events for our local area!

Today’s events include :

11am to 4pm – Christmas Fayre at Verdant Works.

11.30am to 1.30pm – Making Dundee Home Soup and Pudding Lunch – at its new home at Meadowside St Paul’s Church halls, 114-116 Nethergate. Will include a stall from the Friends of Magdalen Green.

12 noon to 4pm – Community Wardrobe Saturdays – Christmas Edition – Gate Church – Free clothes/shoes/accessories for everyone. Help us stop good quality clothing going in the bin and learn how to help beat fast fashion. Christmas jumpers and gifts will also be available. Please book at www.gatechurch.co.uk/carbonprojectevents or call Dundee 221222.

A West End community Christmas tree outside Sainsbury’s in the Perth Road will be switched on late afternoon!

You can read more about these and all the other events at www.facebook.com/WestEndChristmas


Employability drop-ins at Blackness Library #dundeewestend

 



Getting things done – Union Place – an update #dundeewestend

Residents will recall that, earlier this year, I raised with the Roads Maintenance Partnership the issue of the poor road surface at the southern end of Union Place calling for the road to be resurfaced as it was in poor condition.

I am pleased to say this section of the street was resurfaced earlier this month as the “before”, “during” and “after” photos indicate :