Further to my article on 11th October and, as reported in today's Courier, I met with the Director of City Development at Dundee City Council yesterday over delays to the start of work on improving residents' parking in the area of the West End south of Blackness Road, along the Perth Road shopping corridor, and in surrounding streets.The council’s City Development Committee agreed back in January to progress work to improve parking in this part of the West End and in some other parts of the city, but there’s been absolutely no progress since. I therefore met with the Director of City Development to get an assurance that the work to improve residents’ parking would take place, albeit later than envisaged.
The Director confirmed delays are because of work required as a result of the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009 has taken longer than expected and the engineer resource needed to progress residents’ parking improvements cannot yet be released as a result, but he gave me a clear commitment that the council will honour the commitment and committee approval to move ahead with the project in 2011. This is to be welcomed.
I am very keen to see parking improvements for my constituents in the affected parts of the West End and hope to see this project to improve parking start as soon as possible.