Councillors to make decision on maintenance partnerships

Dundee councillors will vote next week on extending two road maintenance partnerships.

The current three-year deals with Tayside Contracts have been hailed as a success by city planners, however critics have raised concerns over road conditions.

The agreement is set to run out in March and councillors will be asked to decide whether to extend them for a further five years to 2023.

Mark Flynn, depute convener of Dundee City Council’s development committee, said: “According to the most recent statistics from 2016/17, the condition of our road network remains in the top half of Scottish local council areas, while our street lighting performs to a similarly high level.

“Our lights are the most reliable of any Scottish city with the fewest reported lighting faults while we annually consume the least amount of electricity per street light with the lowest CO² emissions of any Scottish city.

“This impressive performance is in no small way the result of the close working relationships that have grown up through the two partnerships.”

The ongoing street lighting partnership between the council and Tayside Contracts repairs and maintains more than 24,000 street lights in Dundee.

If the city development committee backs the move next week, both partnerships will continue to work with local and national bodies to help deliver the Scottish Government’s objective of increasing partnership working.

Our lights are the most reliable of any scottish city with the fewest reported lighting faults

Mark Flynn says the partnership deals are the way forward.