Getting things done – Shaftesbury Road and Seymour Street

At the request of local residents I have raised with the City Council concerns about the poor road surfaces at the west end of Shaftesbury Road – see right - and in parts of Seymour Street – see below. I have asked the Roads Maintenance Partnership for repairs in both streets to improve the road condition.

Getting things done – Shaftesbury Road

Getting things done Residents have recently complained to me about the road condition of Shaftesbury Road between the Rockfield Street and Hyndford Street junctions. I brought this to the attention of the City Council’s Road Maintenance Partnership and have now been updated as follows : “An order has been raised for the repair of various [...]

Assault concern

As reported in tonight’s Evening Telegraph, both I and my ward colleague Richard McCready have condemned the shocking assault last Sunday on a 23 year old man who was hit by a vehicle at the junction of Shaftesbury Road and Seymour Street.   He was unhurt in the initial collision but then suffered a broken nose [...]

Wednesday …

Today, a couple of site visits – the first with residents of Thomson Street together with Scottish Water and City Council representatives to investigate a bad smell from drains on the roadway – the second with the Police, City Council representatives and fellow councillors to look at vehicle access problems in the Pentland Crescent/Avenue/Saggar Street [...]

Pothole – corner of Rockfield Street and Shaftesbury Road

Residents have complained to me about the large pothole at the corner of Rockfield Street and Shaftesbury Road – see right. I have reported this to the City Council, requesting repair.

Winter maintenance

With all the snow over the past few days, the feedback from residents is that the Roads Maintenance Partnership has copied generally very well with gritting across the city. There have been issues about the gritting of some residential streets – inevitable given the 330+ miles of non-trunk roads the council has to cover – [...]

Update : Path adjacent to Seymour Lodge

If you click on the headline above, you’ll recall that, back in February, I raised the issue of the state of the pathway to the side of Seymour Lodge (the thoroughfare from Shaftesbury Road to Perth Road), which is extremely well used by residents in the West End, but currently in very poor condition (see [...]

Thoroughfare from Shaftesbury Road to Perth Road, adjacent to Seymour Lodge

I am very pleased at the positive response from Tayside Police to my request that the Force upgrade an area of pathway in their ownership, that is extremely well used by residents in the West End, but currently in very poor condition. Last month, I raised the condition of the thoroughfare from Shaftesbury Road to [...]

Variation of Waiting Restrictions

Below is the Notice of Proposal relating to a Traffic Order – the full schedule for the whole of the City will appear in tonight’s Evening Telegraph, but I have indicated those parts of the schedule that cover proposals in respect of streets in the West End Ward : DUNDEE CITY COUNCILROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT [...]

Pathway adjacent to Seymour Lodge

The Courier has, this morning, kindly covered the issue I have raised about the condition of the pathway from Shaftesbury Road to Perth Road, adjacent to Seymour Lodge. The pathway is well used by local people but is in poor condition. Towards the end of last year, a number of residents had approached me regarding [...]