Residents’ parking – consultation latest! #dundeewestend

As residents know, I have been very critical of the City Council for for continual delays in bringing forward proposals for residents’ priority parking in the West End.


The council undertook consultation meetings with local residents over the issue at two very well attended meetings in Blackness Library in March 2020 – just before the onset of the COVID-19 health emergency – but has failed to progress scoping the scheme since then.

The council administraion’s excuse for this is that it had not started the consultation process in two other wards – Maryfield and Coldside – but as I have raised at the council’s at the council’s City Development Committee, the issues in the other two wards are different and there is absolutely no reason to hold up progress in one ward because of issues elsewhere.   The parking solutions must be tailored to individual local circumstances and there is not a ‘one solution fits all’ template that can be rolled out for all three wards.

In short, there is no reason that the outcomes of the 2020 West End consultation with the public could come back to committee together with recommendations to improve parking for residents. At the committee’s last meeting, I moved a successful motion to commit officers to have proposals back to committee no later than March 2022.

With this deadline in mind, the council is now finally getting round to online consultation meetings that will cover all three wards. There will two on-line meetings on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th November, both starting at 7pm. Opening with a presentation by the council parking officers, there will be an opportunity to submit questions that will be answered on the night.

More information on the proposed schemes, and how to take part in the meetings and the consultation is available at https://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/rps

As I have said before, there is clearly good support for a residents’ priority parking permit scheme as long as it is reasonable and affordable as it would make it much easier for local residents to get parked. 

At last, after my repeatedly raising the issue rather like a broken record, some progress is now finally taking place.


Temporary Traffic Order – Glamis Drive, Eton Street and Elliot Road

From the City Council :

Dundee City Council proposes to make an Order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose of facilitating City Fibre duct installation works. The Order is expected to be in force for 10 days from 11 November 2021. Its maximum duration in terms of the Act is eighteen months
The effect of the Order is to prohibit temporarily all vehicular traffic in (1) Glamis Drive between Glamis Road and Invergowrie Drive and (2) Eton Street and Elliot Road between Blackness Road and Cambridge Street.
Only one section will be closed at any time. Access will be maintained where possible.
Alternative routes will be available via (1) Glamis Drive, Invergowrie Drive, Perth Road, Glamis Road and Glamis Drive and (2) Blackness Road, Oxford Street and Cambridge Street.
For further information, please contact the Network Management Team, City Development Department, Dundee House, 50 North Lindsay Street, Dundee, DD1 1LS or phone 433082.



Weekly Road Report – West End Ward #dundeewestend

DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL – WEEKLY ROAD REPORT


REPORT FOR WEST END WARD – WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2021

Nethergate (South Marketgait to Tay Street Lane) – closed westbound overnight (7.30pm – 6.30am) on Monday 8 November for Scottish Water work.

Riverside Drive (at Perth Road) – temporary traffic lights on Monday 8 November for 2 days for City Fibre works.

Lochee Road (Smellies Lane to North Marketgait) – closed eastbound from Monday 8 November for 5 days for Virgin Media work.

Glamis Drive (Glamis Road to Invergowrie Drive), Eton Street and Elliot Road (Blackness Road to Cambridge Street) – closed from Thursday 11 November for 10 days for facilitating City Fibre duct installation works.

Blackness Avenue – closed from its junction with Hawkhill/Perth Road to the north side of its junction with Shaftesbury Road for one day on Thursday 11 November, for road lining works.

Lochee Road (Polepark Road to Dudhope Terrace) – closed northbound on Sunday 14 November for Scottish Water work.

Forthcoming Roadworks

Strawberrybank – closed at Perth Road (for a distance of 40metres) from Monday 15 November for 6 weeks for chimney repairs.

Briarwood Terrace – closed from Tuesday 23 November for 2 days for carriageway resurfacing.


The Circuit – National Defibrillator Network

From the British Heart Foundation :

The British Heart Foundation, in partnership with the Resuscitation Council UK and the Scottish Ambulance Service, has launched a campaign to encourage individuals who look after publicly accessible defibrillators across Scotland to register the defibrillator on The Circuit.

Early defibrillation can more than double a person’s chances of surviving an out of hospital cardiac arrest – but many defibrillators never get used because emergency services don’t know where they are or how to access them.    With around 3,200 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year in Scotland, it’s crucial everyone who maintains a defibrillator registers their device on The Circuit to help save more lives.

Funded by the British Heart Foundation, and developed by Microsoft UK, the Circuit, is the first ever national defibrillator network in the UK, that integrates with Ambulance dispatch centres to direct bystanders to the nearest defibrillator in case of a cardiac arrest. Currently, across the UK a defibrillator is used in only 1 in 10 incidents of cardiac arrest, but we know that immediate CPR and defibrillation can more than double the chances of survival.

It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of defibrillators across the UK which are still to be registered on the new system. To make sure opportunities to save lives aren’t being missed, the organisations are aiming to see 70,000 additional defibrillators unknown to The Circuit registered by the end of the year.

You can find out more here.



Ninewells Remembers #dundeewestend

On 11th November the garden will be remembering local people who have served in the armed forces.


Some of whom made the ultimate sacrifice and others who lived to remember.

Come along, remember and make your own poppy. 

You can find out more at the garden’s blog at https://bit.ly/3Ek96PB