Getting lots of feedback from residents (following my recent consultation letter to adjacent householders) about the Roseangle Recycling Centre proposal; vast majority favourable but I am feeding into Waste Management any concerns & issues.
I've agreed with the department to touch base with them early on next week to review the feedback and take a view as to how to proceed taking into account everyone's views. Will keep everyone advised on this – meantime the department has indicated to me:
“The primary concern would appear to be with the lack of parking spaces for local residents. The proposed Recycling Point should not have an impact on parking space provision as the area utilised for the facility will not be greater than the area previously utilised by the metal container that was on the site. I will investigate the possibility of using metal barriers to prevent inappropriate parking too close to the Recycling bins.
“I understand any concerns regarding dumping and vandalism. As you are aware this is a problem that may be encountered. As previously mentioned I will ensure that the facility is closely monitored and regularly visited when it is first installed and once established continued to be monitored similar to all our other Recycling Points. Any instance of dumping will be cleared and referred to our Enforcement team who will investigate the incident. As regards noise from the use of recycling bins late at night - this is not a problem that we have previously encountered. I do not anticipate the facility being a noise nuisance, but we will monitor the situation.
“Finally, I would emphasise that if following a suitable trial period the facility is deemed as being not suitable for the area (for whatever reason), the bins are not permanent fixtures and could be removed (however I do hope that this will not be the case).”
Anyway, more on this to follow next week …
The Dundee LibDems have been in "Action Weekend" mode today and thousands of newsletters delivered in various parts of Dundee. A great team effort - I hadn't realised just what an organisational expert my wife Janet is ! Sore feet but mission accomplished!
The Steve Bargeton column in the Courier today again features the Google story from earlier in the week (click on headline above to view earlier story) - I don't think I've ever had so much free publicity without even trying! And hits on the website at an all time high... Anyway, many thanks to Marlyn Glen MSP who has kindly e-mailed me to advise it happened because of "Google Bombing" - a practice of saying derogatory things about political opponents via Google.
Steve also mentions a website set up simply to criticise the Liberal Democrats. Actually, there’s a load of websites attacking other parties too – here’s a couple of other examples:
I've agreed with the department to touch base with them early on next week to review the feedback and take a view as to how to proceed taking into account everyone's views. Will keep everyone advised on this – meantime the department has indicated to me:
“The primary concern would appear to be with the lack of parking spaces for local residents. The proposed Recycling Point should not have an impact on parking space provision as the area utilised for the facility will not be greater than the area previously utilised by the metal container that was on the site. I will investigate the possibility of using metal barriers to prevent inappropriate parking too close to the Recycling bins.
“I understand any concerns regarding dumping and vandalism. As you are aware this is a problem that may be encountered. As previously mentioned I will ensure that the facility is closely monitored and regularly visited when it is first installed and once established continued to be monitored similar to all our other Recycling Points. Any instance of dumping will be cleared and referred to our Enforcement team who will investigate the incident. As regards noise from the use of recycling bins late at night - this is not a problem that we have previously encountered. I do not anticipate the facility being a noise nuisance, but we will monitor the situation.
“Finally, I would emphasise that if following a suitable trial period the facility is deemed as being not suitable for the area (for whatever reason), the bins are not permanent fixtures and could be removed (however I do hope that this will not be the case).”
Anyway, more on this to follow next week …
The Dundee LibDems have been in "Action Weekend" mode today and thousands of newsletters delivered in various parts of Dundee. A great team effort - I hadn't realised just what an organisational expert my wife Janet is ! Sore feet but mission accomplished!
The Steve Bargeton column in the Courier today again features the Google story from earlier in the week (click on headline above to view earlier story) - I don't think I've ever had so much free publicity without even trying! And hits on the website at an all time high... Anyway, many thanks to Marlyn Glen MSP who has kindly e-mailed me to advise it happened because of "Google Bombing" - a practice of saying derogatory things about political opponents via Google.
Steve also mentions a website set up simply to criticise the Liberal Democrats. Actually, there’s a load of websites attacking other parties too – here’s a couple of other examples:
http://labour-watch.blogspot.com/
Personally I think all this negativity puts people right off and explains why I stick to the positive and informative on this blog. I’ve been doing a fair bit of (day job) work in Northern Ireland recently where there’s been Single Transferable Vote elections for years (the system Scotland has adopted for next May's local elections).
Everyone in NI says that a positive aspect of STV elections is that where politician X criticises politician Y, X can write off getting Y’s second preference votes. Net outcome = less negative politics. Can only be a good thing!