On Tuesday morning, I received two well reasoned and detailed emails from constituents. One was requesting action about damaged trees in Gillies Park in Barnhill. The other inquiry was about the road safety issues arising from dropped cast iron drain covers in Balgillo Road.
On my daily dog walk along to Grassy Beach, I investigated the source of the sewage pong which was wafting around the western end of Douglas Terrace.
In the afternoon I had two surgeries, one at Forthill Sheltered Housing Complex 15:30 - 16:00 and one at the in Broughty Ferry Library 18:00-18:30.
I then attended and reported to a meeting of Broughty Ferry Community Council. Our Community Council meet in the Library at 7pm on the first Tuesday of each month.
In the course of the surgeries and the Community Council meeting, I received five more issues to follow up:
- to check the frequency of cleaning of Broughty Ferry Beach by staff from the Environment Department;
- to represent the concerns of a constituent in connection with an educational issue at a Primary School in The Ferry;
- to follow up pupil safety issues raised by a school crossing patroller;
- to convey concerns about the non enforcement of section 70 agreements by the Council's Planning Department and
- to discover how restrictions might be lifted for flying the Broughty Ferry flag more often in 2013, the centenary year of Broughty Ferry being incorporated into Dundee.
There will be lots of letters and phone calls to follow up these issues complaints and concerns.
