Dundee City Council Meeting 8 February 2010

The City Council and its committees met this evening. There were a few interesting reports. At the Leisure, Arts and Communities Committee I spoke on Community Learning and Development, this is very important. I have been fortunate enough to have had the chance to visit many of these programmes. These programmes make a real contribution to the future of our city and the staff involved are to be commended.

At the City Development Committee there was a report on new parking restrictions (in simple terms yellow lines) many of which will be in the West End. I would urge anyone with views on this to ensure that they make their voices heard during the forthcoming consultations.

Also at the City Development Committee there was an interesting report on the prospects for rail freight. This is something which needs to be promoted more strongly and I believe we should be doing all we can to make more use of rail freight, I am also think that there is scope for more use of the port in Dundee as a means of transporting freight.