I've been trying to assist the residents in many of the tenements in Bellefield Avenue over the past few days to get the stair lights on.
This is a problem that first emerged 5-6 years ago when all the communal lights went out in the 8 of the 9 tenements on the west side, plus 47 Magdalen Yard Road. With the help of the council's Environmental Health team and Scottish & Southern Energy, the problem was sorted on that occasion.
This time, the same tenement stair lights went off, but also some on the east side.
On Friday, at my request, an officer from Environmental Health and Trading Standards at Dundee City Council visited the street but there was some difficulty in locating the source of the problem.
However, as of tonight (and earlier in the case of part of the east side) many of the lights are back on, but I am hoping to progress a proper long-term solution by getting owners together to agree a full survey of the stair lighting system here.