High Mill

I recently received complaints from residents about the overgrown state of the grass area north of High Mill at Steven’s Yard, adjacent to Shepherd’s Loan. I am very grateful to the City Council’s Planning Enforcement Officer who, at my request, contacted the landowners to get the very overgrown grass cut. As you can see below, [...]

Recycling at High Mill … and Osborne Place …

I have asked the City Council to relocate the neighbourhood recycling facility at High Mill a short distance away from its current location, following complaints from residents about the noise of bottles being dropped into the recycling units that are currently situated close to residents’ homes. There’s an obvious alternative site in the adjacent car [...]

January 2009 Update to West End Community Council

I have today published my January 2009 update to West End Community Council. Subjects covered include : * Graffiti – Magdalen Green and surrounding area * Speed Limit – western end of Perth Road * Network Rail Mast * West End Christmas Week De-Brief Meeting * Ground at High Mill * Paint on road and [...]

High Mill area – overgrowth tackled

As reported in last night’s “Evening Telegraph”, I am pleased that, following the intervention of the City Council’s planning enforcement staff, a Belgium-based developer has finally commenced the tidying of a badly overgrown area of ground in the Shepherd’s Loan area. Residents and I had contacted the City Council regarding the badly overgrown condition of [...]

Busy Friday … and High Mill Update

A busy day yesterday, including :   * Attending the 2008 Poppy Appeal launch at the City Chambers.   * A meeting with the City Council Leader – the Council autumn recess has just finished and its back to council committee meetings on Monday.   * A meeting with two representatives of the City Centre [...]

Latest FOCUS newsletter – special edition

With thanks to all who helped this morning, most of the special edition of FOCUS for the area of the West End Ward around the Perth Road roadworks, was delivered and the remainder is now with those local residents in the area who kindly deliver their street for me. The FOCUS doesn’t just cover the [...]

Winter in Pitlochry … and unsightly overgrowth at High Mill

As the photos above show, it was a pretty snowy day in Pitlochry today, where I and a couple of colleagues from Dundee Liberal Democrats were again helping our Perth & Kinross Highland Ward colleagues, who are contesting a by-election later this month. Although the snow was on, it was actually a beautiful morning – [...]

Back from Belfast …

Having spent the latter part of the week in Belfast, I have been catching up on the local news on my return. There was a very good leader piece in the Courier last week about disquiet about planning appeal decisions by the Reporter – and in particular the imbalance in appeal rights between developers appealing [...]

Hawkhill Flooding and planning matters

Following concerns about flooding on Hawkhill, I have had the following feedback: “After further investigation we have discovered that these gullies exit into an interceptor on the Hawkhill itself. We will require to contract a specialist clearing company to clean out this chamber as the equipment Tayside Contracts have is not large enough to cope. [...]

Council Tax, Wet Weekend, Tom Spiers, Trees again …

Much of Friday was spent on City Council budget matters (with Council Finance Convener hat on) – click on headline above to view more about this. We have spent a very wet weekend campaigning in various parts of the City; intend thawing out tonight! A resident contacted me Thursday about a vandalised young tree, in [...]

High Mill Update

Many residents will recall that, last year, at my request and following residents’ complaints, the area of ground to the north of High Mill was cleared of the remains of the Half Time School and debris left by a developer – the work to tidy being carried out by the City Council under its planning [...]