Michael is pictured at the Western Cemetery's west wall where residents have highlighted that the ivy has greatly spread and is now damaging the wall.
We contacted environment management at the City Council regarding this and were initially advised by the Service Manager as follows :
"I can update that an initial visual inspection has been carried out by the City Engineers.
However vegetation is overgrowing on the walls (the roots of this are on private land), which prohibits a full inspection to ascertain and cost remedial works.
I will contact the adjacent landowner asking them to remove the vegetation as soon as possible."
The adjacent owner is the University of Dundee who own the Westpark student residences area over the boundary wall.
We did, in response, ask that as much overgrown foliage as possible is removed by the council from the cemetery side of the wall and were helpfully advised thereafter as follows :
"By way of a further update, the Forestry team have confirmed that the ivy will need to be cut back to the boundary by them as this work is at height, using the platform.
This work has been carried out a few times over the years and will need to be undertaken outwith active nesting season.
Forestry have recorded this to be carried out."