At tonight’s Environment Committee I welcomed the open space improvements being carried out in Broughty Ferry.
The Policy and Resources Committee received its usual monthly report on the grants made from the Community Regeneration Fund. I reminded members that I had previously been advised that a review would be carried out to see whether it would be possible to allocate some funding to The Ferry and West End wards and that the outcome would be reported to committee in December. I asked if this timescale would be met and the chief executive indicated that it would be. Hopefully it will result in some funding becoming available that local community groups in both of these areas can apply for.
The Policy and Resources Committee also agreed a collections development policy for Leisure and Culture Dundee. I was interested to read the overview of current collections which is very extensive and contains some wonderful items. Dundee has one of the best collections of Scottish paintings in the country. I mention this as it includes the only nineteenth century collection to survive in its entirety-the Orchar Collection- which of course was left for the benefit of the residents of Broughty Ferry by James Guthrie Orchar, a former Provost of Broughty Ferry.
