Today : * I attended the Annual General Meeting of the Sinderins Court and Pennycook Court Sheltered Residents’ Association. It was very well-attended and good to see progress on a number of issues including the proposed planters at the seating area in Pennycook Lane. I was able to update residents about bin collection matters. [...]
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Tuesday activities …
Posted: March 27, 2012 in Blackness Primary School, Jericho House, Pennycook Lane, Sinderins Court, Whitehall TheatreSome weeks ago, I mentioned that residents had complained to me about broken fencing at the Pennycook Lane car park. I raised this with the City Council and was promised repairs. As you can see from this photo of me taken at the car park yesterday, the work has now been carried out.
Following complaints from residents about broken fencing at the Pennycook Lane Car Park – see right – I have taken up the matter with the City Council’s City Development Department and requested repairs. I have been assured that an order has been placed with Tayside Contracts to have this repaired.
Tuesday activities
Posted: January 18, 2012 in Park Place Nursery School, Park Place Primary School, Pennycook Lane, Sinderins Court, St Joseph's Primary School, WESHAYesterday : * I attended the latest meeting of the West End Schools’ Project Board, the group overseeing the construction of the new facilities for Park Place Primary School, St Joseph’s Primary School and Park Place Nursery School, currently being built on the former Logie Secondary School site. It was good to hear of [...]
Pennycook and Sinderins Courts Sheltered Housing Coffee Morning
Posted: November 12, 2011 in Pennycook Lane, Sinderins CourtI was delighted this morning to attend the Pennycook and Sinderins Courts Sheltered Housing Coffee Morning at Pennycook Court – very well attended, excellent stalls and the home baking was superb, as the piece of Victoria Sponge that I took home to have with my tea is testimony to!
Further to my recent article about the worn lining of the parking bay markings at the Pennycook Lane car park, I am grateful to the City Council’s Head of Transportation who has responded to my request for re-lining very promptly as follows : “I have arranged for the Car Parks Maintenance Assistant to repaint the defined [...]
In May of last year, the City Council, following my request for proper bay markings in the Pennycook Lane car park, did some lining work to better highlight each parking bay. Unfortunately, in recent months, much of the paint has worn and faded (see right) so I have asked the council to repaint the bays [...]
Busy Tuesday …
Posted: September 27, 2011 in Ancrum Place, Jericho House, Morven Terrace, Pennycook Lane, Sinderins Court, West End Christmas WeekSinderins Court In addition to a number of visits to constituents earlier today, I have : * Attended an open meeting of the Pennycook and Sinderins Courts Residents’ Association, where I discussed a number of local matters at a good gathering of the sheltered tenants. These included an update on progress with the Pennycook [...]
Monday update …
Posted: August 8, 2011 in Magdalen Green, Pennycook Lane, Roseangle, Sinderins CourtToday, I attended the latest meeting of the Pennycook Court and Sinderins Court Residents’ Association at which we discussed a number of local issues including refuse collection, local pavements condition, noise issues and sheltered housing TV concessionary licences. Later on, along with colleagues from Friends of Magdalen Green, I met with a City Council representative [...]
Community project taking shape
Posted: July 26, 2011 in Blackness Primary School, Pennycook Lane, Sinderins CourtLast month, I congratulated the Pennycook and Sinderins Court sheltered housing Residents’ Association who have secured over £1000 of funding to get new seating in Pennycook Lane and have some environmental improvements too. With thanks to the Dighty Group who did the work, the new seating is now in place (see right). I have [...]
Well done Pennycook and Sinderins residents!
Posted: June 23, 2011 in Blackness Primary School, Pennycook Lane, Sinderins CourtThe former seating area at Pennycook Lane opposite the entrance to Blackness Primary School looks very tired as the photo (below) shows. So well done to the Pennycook and Sinderins Court sheltered housing Residents’ Association who have secured over £1000 of funding to get new seating and have some environmental improvements too. We had a site [...]
And yet more blots on the landscape …
Posted: June 20, 2011 in Blackness Primary School, Dundee City Council, Pennycook Lane, Taylor's LaneLast month, I attempted, at the City Council’s Development Management Committee, to stop ugly BT Openreach ‘utility’ boxes being placed at three sites in Conservation Areas in the West End. Tonight, at this month’s committee, I moved refusal of two more of these unsightly boxes being placed near Blackness Primary School and in Taylor’s Lane. [...]
Following my raising with the City Council, residents’ complaints about the state of the roadway in Pennycook Lane near the car park, repairs have been undertaken : Above : Before Above : After
… and Tuesday
Posted: February 15, 2011 in Dundee City Archives, Pennycook Lane, Sinderins Court, The VineThis afternoon, I had the pleasure of attending the AGM of the Sinderins and Pennycook Courts tenants’ association. This took place in Pennycook Court (see right) and was very well attended by residents. Guest speaker was Iain Flett, Dundee City Archivist, who gave a really entertaining and informative talk on the West End of old [...]
I have taken up residents’ complaints about the poor state of the Pennycook Lane car park’s fencing. In response, the City Council has replied : “Tayside Contracts have programmed this job in for Tuesday 15th February and they estimate that it will take 2 days to repair the fence.”
Pennycook Court This morning, I met with the residents’ association representing tenants at Sinderins and Pennycook Courts. We had a good discussion about various local issues including road safety, bin collection, repairs to pathways, the seating in Pennycook Lane and other issues. The residents’ group works hard for all the people at Pennycook Court and [...]
Pennycook Court Sheltered Housing Coffee Morning
Posted: November 6, 2010 in Pennycook Lane, Sinderins CourtThis morning, I had the pleasure of attending the coffee morning at the Pennycook Court sheltered housing, organised by the residents at both Pennyccok and Sinderins Courts and staff from Home Scotland. As always, it was extremely well-attended, the coffee and pancakes were excellent, a great range of stalls – and Tombola too!
I received a complaint today that a load of dumped items (mainly clothes) have been dumped at the recycling centre in Pennycook Lane (see right) – I have asked the City Council to have this tidied. It is a pity that an irresponsible minority make this sort of mess – a clothes recycling ban in [...]
Safety outside local schools
Posted: August 25, 2010 in Ancrum Road Primary School, Blackness Primary School, Park Place Primary School, Pennycook LaneI have raised parents’ and residents’ concerns about inappropriate parking at West End schools on various occasions in the past. Following implementation of the safer parking arrangements at St Joseph’s Primary School last term (see above), this afternoon I met with the Head of Primary Education, the Head Teacher and our local community police officer, [...]
Busy Monday …
Posted: August 23, 2010 in Dundee City Council, Education, Logie Estate, Pennycook Lane, Sinderins Court, South Tay StreetIn addition to holding two surgeries today : * I had a positive meeting with the Chair, Chief Executive and Head of Pharmacy at NHS Tayside about the transportation of drugs issue I have highlighted recently. The NHS representatives agreed to put the policy before the Board’s Improvement & Quality Committee for discussion and have [...]
Earlier this month, I featured an article about the types of plastics that are collected from the ‘green box’ recycling facility available to some householders in the West End and elsewhere in Dundee. However, this facility has not been extended as yet to all households and a constituent recently asked about the possibility of having [...]
Pennycook Court and Sinderins Court – residents’ AGM
Posted: June 7, 2010 in Pennycook Lane, Sinderins CourtThis morning I had the pleasure of speaking at the Annual General Meeting of the residents’ association for Sinderins Court and Pennycook Court. It was a very well attended meeting and I updated residents on a number of matters, including road and pedestrian safety, the move to digital TV and dropped kerbing.
Following requests from residents, I recently asked for proper bay markings in the Pennycook Lane car park, to make better use of the car park. I received the following positive response from the City Council – see also the photo below – very prompt action : “I do agree with your suggestion and would confirm [...]
Safe crossings for the West End
Posted: April 26, 2010 in Blackness Avenue, Hawkhill, Pennycook Lane, Sinderins Court, UncategorizedThis morning along with residents, including parents of pupils at Blackness Primary School and representatives of West End Community Council, I attended a site visit at the Sinderins junction with a representative of the council’s City Development Department. We discussed the safe functioning of the junction and in particular the pedestrian crossing West-East from the [...]
Latest West End Updates … * One of the safety bollards on the south side of Pennycook Lane has been broken by a vehicle. Following residents’ complaints, I raised the matter with Dundee City Council, whose response is : “An order has now been raised to re-set this missing bollard.” * Corner City Road & [...]
Following a resident’s recent complaint to me about poor access to the paper recycling facility in Pennycook Lane, I received the following response from Recycling Projects Officer late yesterday : “In response to a request I believe you had in your office yesterday regarding limited access to paper bins within the Recycling Point on Pennycook [...]
Pennycook Court and Sinderins Court Residents’ Association
Posted: March 1, 2010 in Bus Services, Pennycook Lane, Perth Road, Sinderins CourtA very useful and productive meeting today with the Pennycook Court and Sinderins Court Residents’ Association about a number of local issues, including : * Road safety * Bus services * Dropped pavements – access along Perth Road for those with mobility problems * Parking problems I am grateful to Inspector David Scott for also [...]
Apart from two surgeries this afternoon at Harris Academy and the Mitchell Street Centre, I had a very useful meeting with the Pennycook Court and Sinderins Court Residents’ Association about a number of local issues, including road safety, pavements & dropped kerbs and the Friendly Bus sheltered shopping service. Tonight, the City Council’s Development Quality [...]
As a follow-up to my article on 7th October about the work needed to tidy up overgrown bushes and trees in Pennycook Lane (see http://tinyurl.com/pennycookwork to view), the City Development Department of the City Council has now advised me that although my request that the work is carried out on a Sunday is not possible [...]
Back on 19th September, I reported that the City Council had agreed to trim overgrown shrubbery and trees in Pennycook Lane, following my raising residents’ complaints about this with the Council. Go to http://tinyurl.com/pennycook to read the earlier article. An officer in the Waste Management Department has now advised me : “My colleagues in Contract [...]
