Earlier today, around 70 of us spent four hours litter picking and removing graffiti right across the West End – from Lochee Road in the north right down to Riverside Drive in the south. Helpers included local residents, community groups, local businesses including Barnetts Motor Group and Tesco Riverside, persons on the Community Payback Scheme, [...]
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On Radio Tay News about today’s West End Clean Up
Posted: May 16, 2012 in graffiti, Litter, Radio Tay, West EndA large group of us are getting together later this morning to do a litter and graffiti clean-up of the West End. If you are able to help, just turn up outside Sensation in Greenmarket at 11am. I was on Radio Tay News about this today – click ‘play’ to listen:
I was on the Wave 102 news this morning about the forthcoming West End community clean-up – press ‘play’ below to listen:
On Wednesday 16th May, there will be a great clean-up of litter and clean-off of graffiti right across the West End. Building on an initiative by the University of Dundee as part of Keep Scotland Tidy’s National Spring Clean (see below), I have now secured support from the staff at a major West End business, [...]
Today’s “Courier” covered the criticism by “Scottish Friends of Israel” of the motion I have placed on the City Council’s Policy & Resources Committee next Monday. As I said to the Courier: “I have raised this issue in light of my concerns over the continuing plight of the Palestinian people and of the humanitarian situation caused by Israel’s [...]
I took part tonight in the STV news, highlighting the concerns of West End residents about graffiti vandalism. I have reported the graffiti highlighted to the City Council, Scottish and Southern Energy and Scottish Water for action to get it removed. There’s another community initiative to tackle the graffiti issue in the West End this [...]
Further to my item yesterday about the disgraceful graffiti vandalism of a resident’s van and other damage in the early hours of Saturday morning, I had a very useful discussion with our local Police Inspector this morning about these incidents. I am reassured that Tayside Police is putting in considerable resource to apprehend those responsible. [...]
A very busy Saturday and I start with a thank you to the City Council’s Chief Executive David Dorward who took the trouble to call me on a Saturday to discuss winter maintenance concerns in the West End that I had raised with him. And thanks also to the residents in Hillside Terrace who knocked on [...]
I was also on Wave 102 News this morning – again about the latest graffiti vandalism in the Perth Road area. Go to http://tinyurl.com/wave102graffiti to listen. The Waste Management Department has advised me – “Fraser I’ll also ask Rapid Response to visit the Perth Road for this fresh batch of graffiti reported at the start of [...]
On Radio Tay News about recent graffiti vandalism in the West End …
Posted: December 1, 2010 in graffiti, Radio TayListen at http://tinyurl.com/westendgraffiti.
Following the two successful days last month when residents, councillors, council staff, police and others did a great voluntary effort to clean off graffiti across the West End, we held another “anti-graffiti” morning today, getting rid of graffiti at sites adjacent to parts of Perth Road – such as this (see above). Another highly successful [...]
Sunday morning’s graffiti clean up was slightly curtailed by heavy rain, but we still managed to get a load of graffiti cleaned up at the industrial units off Hawkhill!
This morning, along with West End residents, city council representatives, fellow councillors, a local community police officer and with assistance through the Community Justice Authority, we undertook the first of two days of graffiti clean ups – starting at the former Homebase site on Riverside Drive and getting rid of the mess along Roseangle, including [...]
Cleaning up graffiti in the West End
Posted: May 28, 2010 in graffiti, Homebase, Milnbank Road, Riverside DriveAs reported tonight in the Evening Telegraph, this morning I attended the graffiti clean-up by Scottish and Southern Energy of Electricity Sub Stations across the West End – the photo (below) is of me with some of the Scottish and Southern team at Milnbank Road. Tomorrow morning, the West End graffiti weekend graffiti clean-up by [...]
Following my raising concerns about the state of fencing at the rail line on Riverside Drive in the area south of the Botanic Garden, and the extent of graffiti in the area, I have had the following feedback from Network Rail : “I write with reference to your enquiry, regarding fencing situated at Riverside Drive, [...]
Having spent the bulk of today in Perth with the ‘day job’, late this afternoon I attended the Kingspark Project Board at the new school that will open in the near future. Project Board members were given a guided tour of the new school facilities – these are absolutely superb. It has been a well-managed [...]
Graffiti clean-up – latest
Posted: April 5, 2010 in graffiti, Marchfield Road, Scott Street, Seafield RoadI recently mentioned that the City Council’s Waste Management Department had confirmed to me that residents’ complaints I had raised about graffiti at Marchfield Road, Scott Street and Seafield Road would be cleaned off. I am pleased to report that this had now been carried out with graffiti at the west end of Scott Street [...]
I am grateful to Scottish & Southern Energy for its very prompt attention to removing offensive graffiti on the electricity sub-station at Magdalen Green that I brought to its attention towards the end of this week, following residents’ concerns. I am also grateful to the City Council for cleaning off graffiti in parts of Taylor’s [...]
West End Local Community Planning Partnership meeting
Posted: February 18, 2010 in Bus Services, graffiti, Park Place Nursery School, Park Place Primary School, parking, St Joseph's Primary SchoolI’ve been in Glasgow for the past couple of days with the ‘day job’ but back in Dundee tonight. No surgery at Blackness Primary School as the school was closed today (an in-service day) but tonight saw the West End local community planning partnership meeting take place at the Tartan Coffee House in Perth Road. [...]
Having spent much of the day in Edinburgh with the “day job” with the dubious pleasure of getting totally soaked in torrential rain, this evening I firstly attended the second meeting of the “graffiti sub group” of the Local Community Planning Partnership in the West End at which we discussed how to tackle the graffiti [...]
Further to my article from earlier this week about tackling the growing problem of graffiti vandalism in the West End (go to http://tinyurl.com/graffitiupdate), a meeting of the informal group set up by the West End Local Community Planning Partnership met tonight and I had the pleasure of chairing what was a very productive hour and a [...]
Tonight’s “Evening Telegraph” had an excellent article about the graffiti menace in the city. Go to http://tinyurl.com/telegraffiti to read the article. As I made clear in the article, the City Council’s cleansing services manager had assured me that a short-life working group has been set up on a city-wide basis to look at ways of proactively [...]
Tackling graffiti in the West End
Posted: August 29, 2009 in Dundee City Council, graffiti, Waste ManagementToday’s “Courier” has an article about the increasing graffiti problem and assurances I have received from the City Council’s Waste Management Department that further steps were being taken to tackle the issue. Go to http://tinyurl.com/dundeegraffiti to read the article. Let’s be clear – graffiti is pure vandalism – it damages both public and private property and [...]
The photographs below highlight the mindless graffiti vandalism at and near to Magdalen Green that I highlighted yesterday in the “Evening Telegraph” (see http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2008/12/31/story12447236t0.shtm). Vandals have defaced the newer notice board on the Green and the walk-bridge between the Green and the playing fields at Riverside Drive. Following complaints from residents and from [...]
I was pleased recently to get feedback from the City Council’s Leisure & Communities Department that it has again taken action to remove graffiti in Victoria Park. An Order to contractors has been placed to ensure the graffiti (see right) will be removed shortly. There has been an on-going graffiti problem here (click on headline [...]
Busy couple of days …
Posted: August 14, 2007 in Ancrum, Balgay Hill, Balgay Park, Cleghorn Area, graffiti, Pentland, Victoria Park, West End Christmas WeekA busy couple of days with City Council meetings resuming yesterday, after the summer recess. At the Planning & Transport Committee, which I chair, we had news of useful progress towards getting the final section of that ugly old overhead walkway at the railway station end of South Marketgait finally removed. Earlier yesterday, in the [...]
If you click the headline above, you can read the story in tonight’s Evening Telegraph about the unfortunate appearance of more graffiti locally – this time on Blackness Road. Following this matter being raised with me yesterday, I was in touch with the City Council Waste Management Department about it and I am pleased to [...]
The Evening Telegraph has featured the graffiti vandalism at Seabraes in tonight’s edition (click on headline above to view this). Some good news, however, on the graffiti problem. Network Rail has called me to say that, following my request, they are to remove around 50 items of graffiti at the rail line in the West [...]
West End site visits, Botanic Gardens, Western Cemetery and Graffiti
Posted: May 30, 2007 in City Road, graffiti, Tullideph Road, Western CemeteryA busy couple of days, with a couple of site visits with residents, firstly to Tullideph Road where’s there’s a pavement fault next to the bus stop opposite the shops near the City Road junction (see right) and to Paton’s Lane about an unlit ‘one way’ sign. Both now reported to the Planning & Transportation [...]
OK then media first! Was on the Tay Talk In this morning regarding the future administration of the City Council. The Talk In is a great programme as Ally allows everyone their say and the programme is dynamic, with the listeners deciding the content. So … that’s today’s positive story about the media. So here’s [...]
