While understanding what the planners are attempting to do, I question the sense in forcing through cosmetic physical changes to the street, coupled with further restrictions on traffic, culminating in a one-way system nobody wants, which will lead to a reduction in potential customers for businesses, during what is generally regarded as the worst recession in living memory.

However, my present concern is the short-term future of the area.

This stems from an apparent total lack of interest on the planners’ part about the best way to minimise disruption to the traders of Lochee High Street during the six months this “revitalisation” is taking to implement.

During the current, hugely disruptive resurfacing and forming of speed tables we were assured in writing that the road would remain open to cars, allowing them access to the shops at all times.

This has not happened and cars are being turned away basically, unless they are delivery vehicles. Therefore the street has the appearance of being “dead”.

This should, hopefully, be a temporary situation. Lochee High Street is not dead as a shopping area in the long term.

We have come through too much over the years to allow the planners to kill us off. — Michael Grossi, Grossi’s Dry Cleaners, Dundee.

It was opened for use by people both young and old in Charleston, but now it is just a shell of what it was.

If it is not in use, why not return it to houses again?

At present it is just an ideal playground for vandals.

Even the Beechgrove Garden thought it good enough to make a masterpiece garden, which was televised. A lot of money was spent on this project. What a disastrous let-down. — Charleston Onlooker.

He or she shouldn’t expect to start this job anytime soon.

I was an employee in JCP for just under a year. We started on a fixed-term contract and were assured that everyone gets kept on after this period.

Shortly before Christmas, we were told we would not be kept due to being very overstaffed. We now hear that any recruitment within JCP is on hold for at least a year. This is the same across the whole of JCP not just Dundee. It can’t be good news for the recession. — Ex-Jobseeker.

There were protests when SNP councillor Willie Sawers declared a Labour amendment to the budget as incompetent.

But how many of them, when they were conveners, never ruled anything incompetent? Anyone who has followed council business over the years knows that every single one of them has.

They can dish it out, but they can’t take it in return. — Political Connoisseur.

The indisputable fact is that the vast majority of those convicted are not going to jail. Of those who are, the early release programme sends out the wrong message.

It’s time the SNP sorted the problem. — Politico.