There were a number of items on the agenda for last night’s council committee meetings that had a particular Broughty Ferry interest.
The Policy and Resources Committee agreed to reinstate the garden waste facility at Baldovie Recycling Centre. This will be well received by Broughty Ferry residents as they will no longer be faced with a car journey across Dundee to dispose of their garden waste. The director of the environment department told the committee that it would probably take a couple of weeks to make the necessary changes. I asked for councillors to be supplied with a note of the figures of the tonnage collected at the recycling centre in the first quarter of this year compared to previous years.
Broughty Ferry Education and Recreation Association (BERA) was awarded a grant of £3,000. BERA was part of a learning communities inspection earlier this year. It received very positive feedback from the inspection team on its programme and voluntary activity within the community.
The City Development Committee agreed to make the order to reduce the speed limit on Dundee Road. No objections were received during the statutory consultation period. I asked if advisory signs notifying drivers of the new speed limit would be in place for the commencement of the new limit (unlike on Monifieth Road when it took a number of weeks) and I was told by the head of transportation that this would be the case. It is anticipated that the new speed limit will be in force before the end of the year.
The City Development Committee also considered a report about the completion of the Dundee coastal flood study. A number of measures are proposed where there is a risk of coastal flooding. It is unlikely that funding to implement any of the measures will became available before 2015. The total estimated cost is not short of £36million. A prioritised schedule of works has been developed so that as funding becomes available the council will target the areas of high risk first. Attention will initially be focussed on the central Dundee area. The next prioritised area is Broughty Ferry. The outline scheme description for Brougty Ferry beach is to recharge the dunes and provide rock armour erosion protection where required.
The proposal for Broughty Ferry town is to provide a raised flood wall with wave recurve and glass panelling. I made the point at committee that this would have a significant visual impact and change the appearance of Broughty Ferry’s waterfront and I asked whether there were alternatives and I also said that there needs to be a full consultation with the local community about what is being proposed. In response I was advised by the city engineer that the outline scheme was the preferred scheme but it is not fixed and that there would be a consultation process involving all the stakeholders.
An item was approved recommending acceptance of an offer for the purchase of the former Eastern Primary School site for residential development.
