The May police report for Braeside and Mannofield has now been published. Issues covered include road safety, traffic offences, antisocial behaviour and theft. The report also includes information about local police engagement and national police campaigns.

I have called on council to act to make it easier and safer for drivers to turn rights from Great Western Road at its junction with Anderson Drive and South Anderson Drive.

I have called on council staff to fill the large and deep potholes that have once again appeared on both Salisbury Terrace and Cranford Road. Whilst Salisbury Terrace is due to be resurfaced this year, Cranford Road and many other crumbling and uneven roads and pavements in our area also need to be properly resurfaced […]

After being contacted by concerned residents, I have called on the council to clear blocked street drain gullies in Mannofield.

The double yellow lines put down in error on Broomhill Road at its junction with Hammerfield Avenue have now been removed.

Broomhill Road residents were surprised and annoyed to find yellow lines being painted on the road outside their homes earlier this week.

I have urged council staff to act to improve the maintenance of the planted areas in the central reservations and verges of Anderson Drive and South Anderson Drive. I have also called for roses to be replanted in the gaps in the central reservation.

I have called on the council’s Roads Service to resurface the crumbling surface of Hammerfield Avenue. Whilst the council has repaired some potholes on Hammerfield Avenue, many others remain – and new potholes and broken areas appear all-the-time. In my view, the condition of Hammerfield Avenue means it needs to be properly resurfaced. The e-mail […]

Transport Scotland has – for the third time – broken a commitment to to install additional traffic lights on a cantilever over the pedestrian crossing on South Anderson Drive just uphill from Broomhill Road.

Thank you to everyone who has contacted me recently about potholes and broken road surfaces in our area. I have now been told by the Roads Service that repairs have been carried out on a number of these roads. The roads on which council staff have told me they have filled potholes and carried out […]