A member of City Centre & Harbour Community Council raised with me concern that two more mature looking trees in Commercial Street (near former Arnotts building) had been replaced with new, smaller ones. Now had feedback from the Council's Forestry Officer, who explains why:-
"We don't have any mature trees on Commercial Street; they are all less than 20 years old. What has happened is that due to the renovation to the Arnotts store some of the trees were in the builders' compound and got severely damaged, which I condemned. This was them getting replaced with new trees at the cost of the developer.
"I am not happy that they were replaced during the summer months and they have been informed that if they die off they will be responsible for further tree planting."
On another subject, over the last few days, heavy rain has caused flooding in parts of the City Centre (Seagate/Trades Lane area, east of my ward area) - not exactly the first time this has happened here. Additionally, there was a significant amount of flooding at the south end of Roseangle. A constituent has contacted me concerned about the problem. As he says - "I live in Roseangle, and whenever there's more than just a drizzle of rain the street gets flooded, especially at the corner shop. " Am taking this up with Scottish Water today.