Green waste dumped by council vans

AS a regular and responsible dog walker I want to highlight a situation I consider to be getting out of control.

I would like the parks and environment department to explain why it is using the car parking facilities at the old St Saviour’s High on Drumgeith Road as a “dumping” ground for garden waste (pictured).

While walking my dogs there twice a day, I have noticed local authority vehicles tipping garden waste there on a daily basis.

For a while wood chippings were being left, then a few weeks ago earth and shrubbery started to be left in the area.

It is now at the stage where it is seriously getting out of hand as half of the parking facilities, which are used by dog walkers and patrons who play football on the playing fields, are now partly consumed by garden waste.

The majority of the tipped waste that has been left there has shrubbery that has large, dangerously sharp branches exposed, which, if curious children and dogs were to go near, could lead to an injury requiring medical treatment.

Some days, dependent on the weather, there is a strong pungent odour lingering in the air, emanating from the mounds of various garden waste.

It is turning the area into a complete eyesore.

The local authority preaches to householders to collect garden waste in the supplied brown bins to be recycled and here they are just creating an eyesore in a public place, with the exact same type of waste.

A member of the general public would be charged for flytipping if they were to leave garden waste there in the same manner.

I would like to see a response from Dundee City Council printed to explain their actions and when and if it will be cleared up.

Responsible Dog Walker.