Housing, Dundee Contract Services And Environment Services Committee - 15/10/2001

At a MEETING of the ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSUMER PROTECTION COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 15th October 2001.

Present:-

COUNCILLORS

Councillor Neil GLEN, Convener, in the Chair.

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 17th September 2001 was held as read.

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

I CIVIC GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 1982 - SECTION 87(1) BUILDINGS IN NEED OF REPAIR

The Director of Environmental and Consumer Protection reported that notices had been served on the owners of the undernoted property requiring works to be carried out.

(i) 93 Dens Road, Dundee - front rone fractured and leaking

G/1Mr & Mrs Stewart

G/2J McDonald and Pauline Donnelly

1/1Colin Hendry

1/2Mrs Helen Sayers, 40 Auchrannie Terrace, Dundee, DD4 7QH

2/1Vallen Blacklaw

2/2Mr & Mrs C Shek

3/1William Stewart, Claypotts Crossans, Glamis, Angus

3/2Stanley Wallace

(ii) 190 Strathmartine Road, Dundee - defective rainwater conductor/sink waste pipe

G/1Forthtay Properties, Bell Street, Dundee

G/2D Hagan, Law Properties, per Hilltown Post Office, 150 Hilltown, Dundee

1/1 & 1/2K Forbes, Lickley Proctor & Burnett, 23 South Tay Street, Dundee

2/1Mr Alim Mohammed

2/2L Cumming

3/1R Turner, per Burnside Properties, Princes Street, Dundee

3/2C Cook, 132 Nethergate, Dundee

(iii) 2 Bright Street, Lochee, Dundee broken window, first floor landing

G/2Hillcrest Housing Association, South Ward Road, Dundee

1/1Gail Campbell

1/2Gerald Ogilvie & Amanda Gray

1/3Mark Small

2/1John McKelvie

2/2Christopher Fawcett

2/3M Scroggie & Mrs J Thompson

3/1Mrs M Lynch

3/2Mr & Mrs Brankin

3/3Mohammed El Bakary, 3 Rennel Road, Dundee

(iv) 66-108 Seagate, Dundee - rainwater downpipe choked

No 66

1/1Samantha Paton, 14 Princess Crescent, Finsbury Park, London

1/2George Johnson, 61 Dawson Road, West Ferry, Dundee, DD5 1PX

1/3Catriona Duffy, per Derek Petrie, Messrs Shield & Kydd, 5 Bank Street, Dundee, DD1 9LB

2/1 & 2/3Mrs Jamila Hussain, 3 Magdalen Place, Dundee, DD1 4NN

2/2Joseph Murray

3/1James Fairfield

3/2Ashik Syed, per PS Propertie, 50 Dudhope Crescent Road, Dundee

3/3Cardean Ross

AtticMiranda Fetts, per PS Properties, 50 Dudhope Crescent Road, Dundee

Unit 3, 70/108 Seagate/Peter StreetHemisphere Properties Ltd, per Insignia Richard Ellis Ltd, 70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, G2 6UA

(v)166 Lochee Road, Dundee - defective rones and downpipes at front and rear

G/1D Dewar

G/2D hagan, per Hilltown Post Office, 150 Hilltown, Dundee, DD3 7BJ

1/1Mr K Wilkie, 59 Dock Street, Flat 2/1, Dundee, DD1 3DU

1/2Mr H Cumming, Beach Tower, Ralston Road, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 1NQ

2/1L Cowie, 2 Braeface Cottages, Glespine, Lanarkshire, LM11 OSJ

2/2L Cook

3/1S Trayner

3/2J Petrie.

The Committee authorised the Director to carry out the work should the owners not comply within the time allowed in the Notices.

II CONTAMINATED LAND STRATEGY

Reference was made to Article II of the minute of meeting of this Committee on 17th September 2001 when the Strategy for Contaminated Land was approved.

The Director of Environmental and Consumer Protection reported that implementation of this strategy required extensive mapping of the City, prioritising areas for investigations, physical investigation of sites, sampling and testing of soils and water, and analysis of results to determine the possible impacts and it was proposed to form a team comprising a mixture of in-house staff and external specialists in environmental engineering, geology, and toxicology.

The team would use the Dundee Risk Evaluator Assessment Model (DREAM) methodology prepared by Environmental and Consumer Protection to identify a number of sites for full investigation.

It was further reported that in order to facilitate the physical investigations, the City Engineer had recommended that a Unit Rate form of contract be utilised with rates being obtained on an annual basis from a number of specialist contractors experienced in contaminated land site investigations. These rates would then be used to produce offers for individual work packages, with the most favourable being reported to this Committee for approval.

It was noted that the extent of this work depended on the number of sites to be investigated and on the degree of contamination found; however, the City Engineer and Public Analyst had prepared a proposal for staff and consultants time, physical site investigations, sampling, testing and analysis, amounting to 80,000.00 in this financial year.

The Committee approved the abovementioned arrangements.

III NATIONAL WASTE STRATEGY

There was submitted Report No 683-2001 by the Directors of Environmental and Consumer Protection and Planning and Transportation advising members of the three options identified to date in the Area Waste Plan process.

The Committee noted the three options, as detailed in the report, for inclusion in an Options Paper to be prepared by the Tayside Area Waste Group.

IV ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1990 - ABATEMENT NOTICE IN RESPECT OF STATUTORY NUISANCE

It was reported for the information of the Committee that, following complaints from neighbouring residents, and following consultation with the Convener and Majority and Minority Group spokespersons, the Director of Environmental and Consumer Protection had authorised officers to disable two intruder alarms at Holly Road, Broughty Ferry and North Street, Dundee, which had been sounding continuously over a considerable period of time, in order to remove the noise nuisance.

The Committee noted accordingly.

NEIL GLEN, Convener