Jubilee celebrations in the West End!

The Jubilee is being celebrated in style in the West End!   Today, I had the honour of cutting the ribbon to officially open the superb Jubilee street party organised by the folk in Hillside Terrace, Road, Place and Drive.    It seemed that everyone from the four streets was there – all generations – [...]

Stopping Up Order at Hillside Terrace – Public Inquiry – decision announced

The decision in respect of the Stopping Up Order at Hillside Terrace, Dundee has now been issued by the Scottish Ministers. The decision is as follows:   The Scottish Ministers agree with the Reporter’s findings and conclusions and adopt them for the purposes of their own decision, and accept the Reporter’s recommendation that the Order [...]

Saturday update

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 [...]

Hillside Terrace – proposed stopping up order – Public Inquiry

The public inquiry relative to the proposed stopping up order at the west end of Hillside Terrace (next to Wimberley Houses) started at the Invercarse Hotel this morning. I attended the first part of the inquiry this morning. Details of the case can be read on the Scottish Government Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals [...]

Tonight’s City Council Development Quality Committee

At tonight’s Development Quality Committee, I moved refusal of a recommendation to agree to variation of the period for the erection of a wall to be erected at the west end of Hillside Terrace on the following grounds : “The permanent closure of the west end of Hillside Terrace, in accordance with a confirmed Stopping [...]

Dundee City Council (Hillside Terrace, Dundee) (Stopping-Up) Order 2009

The City Council has now published the above Order, Plan, Notice and Statement of Reasons relating to the above.    You can read the detail at http://tinyurl.com/hillsideterrace.   Given the controversy over the two planning applications at the former Wimberley Student Flats (I moved refusal of both applications;  the first time successfully, the second time [...]

West End pavements

I am pleased to note that, following my request that the pavements in Menzieshill Road, Whitefauld Road and Hillside Terrace are included on the Unadopted Footways List for future adoption, I have been advised that they will be added at the next review.