I am pleased to report that Dundee City Council has set up a working group to progress the improvement and opening to the public of the area at Riverside around the civic amenity site. The new working group has City Council cross-departmental membership and also includes representatives from SEPA and Scottish Natural Heritage. The group has already met twice, with a further meeting taking later this month.
In the eight years I have been a member of the City Council, I have been exasperated at the slow progress that has happened in terms of getting the proposed Riverside Nature Park opened to the public. Whilst I understand that the matter has not entirely been within the City Council’s control in that SEPA, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, has involvement in the matter, the progress has been slow.
It is absolutely vital that we now see swift progress on the matter and I must say that I am encouraged by the involvement of SEPA and Scottish Natural Heritage in the working group.
I have asked the City Council how best they can utilise Vacant and Derelict Land Fund resources that were approved in recent months.
It has been a long time coming but I am hoping that we may see real progress at Riverside in the near future.
In the eight years I have been a member of the City Council, I have been exasperated at the slow progress that has happened in terms of getting the proposed Riverside Nature Park opened to the public. Whilst I understand that the matter has not entirely been within the City Council’s control in that SEPA, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, has involvement in the matter, the progress has been slow.
It is absolutely vital that we now see swift progress on the matter and I must say that I am encouraged by the involvement of SEPA and Scottish Natural Heritage in the working group.
I have asked the City Council how best they can utilise Vacant and Derelict Land Fund resources that were approved in recent months.
It has been a long time coming but I am hoping that we may see real progress at Riverside in the near future.