| Letters - 23 May 2005 |
| What’s happening to our homes? |
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| CAN THE Tele get a response from Dundee City Council regarding the supposed improvement and maintenance programme for the Stirling Park area? |
| A year past January, residents received a letter from the council’s Improvement and Maintenance Unit advising us a central heating and rewiring programme was due to be carried out during the summer/autumn of last year.
We then received a visit from a representative of the unit telling us all non-essential items should be packed away. Many residents did this.
New tenants were advised not to carry out any decorative works because improvements were imminent.
Some have been in their “new” homes for up to nine months and have been unable to settle in because they are constantly told to “do nothing”.
To date, there has been no activity in respect of these works. We have received absolutely no communication from the council as to when these works are likely to happen.
There have been many, many phone calls made to the IMU from several residents.
We are assured that a letter will be coming telling us what is happening, but even this is never forthcoming.
Surely it would be a courtesy to advise the residents, many of whom are elderly, what is happening with our homes? — Fed Up Waiting.
{A Dundee City Council spokesman said, “We have contacted residents to apologise for the lack of information which was a result of the consultation needed with specialist contractors about work required. We have also informed residents that we are planning a tenants’ meeting for next month to update them on all aspects of the work involved.”}
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| Rivals Fair City |
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The re-styled pavements in Nethergate, Dundee
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| CONGRATULATIONS TO those on Dundee City Council who have been involved in implementing the new improved paving around the Nethergate and DCA. It looks fantastic.
Perth has made some huge improvements around their centre in recent years, but these developments rival anything in the Fair City. Keep up the good work. — Ian Black.
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| Stop beer and bingo money |
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| EVERY DAY in the local and national papers we read about troublemakers making their neighbours’ lives a misery.
In addition, we have a record number of children playing truant, with the parents unable or unwilling to do anything about it.
Surely the simple solution is to stop all the family allowances and any other monies these people claim?
We know from the Press that once their entitlements are stopped, it is difficult to have them restarted.
When the beer and bingo money is stopped, perhaps then the people concerned will take notice and discipline their families. — Aged Pensioner, Dundee.
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| Learned from their parents |
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| I AM glad to read of MSP Marlyn Glen standing up for the rights of children “who want to learn” against those whose unruly behaviour in class prevents that right being enforced.
Many of these disruptive pupils have no idea how to conform to what decent people regard as being civil.
In many cases this aggressive behaviour has been learned from their parents. — Stobswell Reader. |
| Thank goodness Dundee on doorstep |
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| A REPORT that a hotel in Forfar has donated the use of its swimming pool for the use of Kirriemuir school children yet again highlights the poor provision of swimming facilities by Angus Council.
The SNP have been in charge of Angus since 1984. Since then, not one new pool has been built.
If it was not for the former Labour administration on Tayside Region which allowed the public some use of high school pools, people in Brechin, Carnoustie and Kirriemuir would have no access to a pool.
Thank goodness Dundee is on our doorstep, with its excellent provision of facilities. — J. W. Denning, Brechin. |
| Slams doors |
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| AFTER READING the letter from Harassed OAP, I had to write to say I have had the same problem.
My neighbour constantly slams doors from about 10 pm till after midnight.
I have contacted the anti-social team on several occasions, but nothing has been done. This is, I believe, because the neighbour I complained about is a tenant and I own my property.
We were given a diary form to fill in, then a couple of days later we received a letter saying the case was closed. — Stop The Noise. |
| Shabby drivers |
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| IN RESPONSE to letter writer Gentleman Bonnet, I find most taxi drivers with whom I have come in contact in Dundee are shabby.
They don’t even give you a chance to put on your kids’ seat belts before they take off.
Their manners, too, aren’t the best. Maybe some should put themselves on customer care courses. — Disgruntled Tax Payer. |
| Benefit night |
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| WOULD ANY musicians and vocalists who worked in The Rendezvous in the 1960s and 70s with the late George Ferguson, please contact Jessie on 01382 223777 with a view to staging a benefit night. — J. Henderson.
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