2. Lochee Community Planning Partnership

September 2015

1. AREA 2 – LOCHEE

2. LOCHEE COMMUNITY PLANNING PARTNERSHIP

The Lochee Community Planning Partnership met on Tuesday 18th August in Camperdown Parish Church.

Catherine Conroy and Hamish Donaldson attended to give an update on progress being made with the changes to Recycling Services in the city as well as details of the next phase.

3. LOCAL COMMUNITY PLAN

3.1 Lochee Community Hub

A committee report is being prepared for the September committee cycle.

3.2 Menzieshill Primary School/Community Centre/NHS Campus

The Masterplan for the site was made available for comment at the Menzieshill Community Centre’s Annual Family Fun Day on 22nd August. The school element is at construction detailing stage and the NHS/Community Centre is moving forward in terms of design.

3.3 Play/Open Space

South Road Park

The active play area will be considered at Council committee in September. The Skatepark will be on site soon.

Whorterbank MUGA/Play area

The Environmental Improvement Plans for Whorterbank are due to go on site in September.

Menzieshill Play Trail

The Play Rangers funded by Inspiring Scotland are now in post and a programme of supported play sessions are being developed for delivery from 2015 to 2016.

4. NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Equally Well – Wellbeing Week

Wellbeing Week will take place in Lochee during the week beginning 19th October. A range of activities will take place throughout the week with the main event taking place at Lochee Library on Friday 23rd October from 9:30am - 3pm. Activities are available for all ages and include Job Shop, relaxation and massage, Wii Fit, brain and board games, healthy Halloween treats, health checks and lots more. Look out for the full programme which will be circulated closer to the time. Limited spaces are available for services/organisations to have information stalls throughout the week.

1 Equally Well are currently planning other initiatives for Lochee with a range of partners and local people. For more information contact Robin Falconer, Equally Well Development Worker on 01382 435854.

5. AGENCY/DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

5.1 City Development

Highgate Redevelopment Project

. A paper is going to the City Development Committee on 24 August 2015 following the ‘on street parking review’ of Lochee High Street and Bank Street. The paper is seeking approval to commence the TRO process to formalise the taxi rank on Bank Street/High Street. Also to remove existing taxi ranks on the High Street located outside The Mace and Fisher & Donaldson and replace them with public parking.

. An independent Stage 3 Safety Audit of Bank Street/new High Street junction was carried out on 12 February 2015. City Engineers received a report of this independent audit which outlined a number of measures to be undertaken including signage, lighting and road markings. City Engineers have completed a number of the actions outlined in the report and costs are being collated for the remaining actions. The independent auditors have confirmed that they are satisfied with the Council’s response to the actions set out in the audit report.

. Hillcrest Housing Association have appointed Marshall Construction to complete the Sinclair Street development which stalled earlier this year due to Muirfield Contracts going into administration. It is anticipated that the development will be completed in January/February 2016.

. Hillcrest Housing Association have indicated their intention to commence work on the St Ann Lane development in August 2015. Completion is estimated to be October 2016.

Whorterbank – Environmental Improvement Project

. An information/update session took place with residents on the afternoon of 9 July 2015. Angie and Claire outlined progress with the project to install a MUGA, upgrade the Play Park equipment, Car Park improvements and associated Landscape Improvement works. Work is estimated to commence in September 2015 and to be completed by end of November 2015.

Planning Applications

. A planning application was approved by the City Development Committee for Unit 3 in The Stack. It involves the change of use to ground floor Class 1 retail and a mezzanine level class 11 gym and associated landscaping and car parking (15/00167/FULL).

. A planning application was approved by the City Development Committee for the erection of a retail foodstore with associated car parking, access, landscaping and other works at land to east of 61 Myrekirk Road (15/00404/FULL).

2 . Planning application reference 15/00462/FULM submitted for a new 3 stream Primary School and 100 place Nursery on land to the west of Earn Crescent and the south of Dickson Avenue.

. Planning application reference 15/00536/FULL and Listed Building Consent reference 15/00537/LBC submitted for conversion of disused church and associated hall and outbuildings to form 11 residential units and 5 terrace dwellings at Lochee Old Parish Church, Bright Street, Lochee

. Planning application reference 15/00410/FULM submitted for a residential development with associated landscaping, open space and infrastructure works at LDP site H69 Western Gateway.

5.2 Dundee Healthy Living Initiative

Group Day/Time Location Contact Lochee Community Various times Lochee Ward Catrina Gardening Group please phone for info Fun Seated Moves Free Mon 10-10.45am Charleston Community Catrina Centre Exercise to Music - £1.50 Mon 1.45-2.45pm St Margaret’s Hall, Catrina Ancrum Road Gentle Walking Group Tues 10am Lochee Library Catrina The Drop Inn Tues 11am-1pm Lochee Parish Church Catrina Kinship Group Tues 1-3pm Lochee Health Centre Catrina Knitting and Crochet Group Free - Tues 1.30- Small Steps, 87 High Catrina 3pm, St, Lochee Beginners Arts & Crafts Tues 3-5pm FREE Lochee Health Centre Catrina New! Movement towards Free taster session Lochee Parish Church Catrina Health (Yoga) Wed 13th May, 10- 11am Fun Seated Moves Weds 10-11am Charleston Community Catrina Centre Lochee Linties Wed 10-11.30am Mulligan Court, Lochee Catrina Singing Group £2 per session Lochee Walking Group Wed 1pm Lochee Library Catrina Lochee Community Group Wed 1.30-3.30pm Lochee Health Centre Catrina Free Health Checks 1st Wed of every Lochee Library Catrina month 2-4pm

The Lochee Community Group were awarded just over £3k from Community Regeneration Fund for gentle yoga in Lochee and Charleston to enable free admission. The group were also awarded just over £5k from Small Grant funds to sustain and develop the Pop-up Shop. The group have now joined the Dundee Social Enterprise Network for further support with the shop. The Gardening Group also received a Silver Award for their garden. The Silver award was from Dundee City Council annual Garden and Allotments Competition. They were entered in the Community Gardens category which is a new award this year.

3 5.3 Community Learning & Development

Charleston Community Jobshop continues to be busy with 16-18 people attending, to access support for jobsearch, Universal Jobmatch, CV’s and speculation letters, interview skills, on- line and written applications . Links to the IT4Work Project, The Connect Team, Making Money Work and other organisations where appropriate.

REHIS – Practical Cooking Skills – 5 week course in Charleston Community Centre, starting 14th October, 2015.

REHIS – Food & Health Certificate – 4 week course in Charleston Community Centre, starting 25th November, 2015.

5.4 Community Family Support Project

Community Family Support Project are undergoing changes in staff with Kerry McKenzie the Health and Early Years Worker leaving. She said goodbye to the Tuesday evening Healthy Family Group in Elders court and is now focusing her last few weeks on a short term Food Initiative in Lochee Library. Interested parties have been drawn from our recent free Magic Show for Lochee families in the library where 21 kids and 13 parents attended and had lots of fun.

Great news for our Lochee Laughter Club as they received a Bronze medal in a local competition for their efforts to plant and tend a "tattie patch".

What a great resource we have for the local under 12's and their parents in the form of this club and of course a huge thanks to the Housing Department Sheltered Lounge for the free premises and friendly Warden support. These partnerships are really what make a difference to Lochee families’ lives.

5.5 Lochee Pathfinder

Summer Family Fun and Food

Parents/carers were more interactive in organising games and activities for their children to participate in this time around. A few parents decided that they wanted to try and raise some money for a trip away in the October Holidays so came up with the idea of a tombola stall. Over the summer programme new toys, books, games etc. were brought in and raffle tickets sold at 20p each or £1 a strip. Over £200 was raised and a few parents are now keen to fundraise further by organising a bingo night or disco.

With less than 6 weeks until the October Holidays, planning has started towards holding the next Family, Fun and Food.

4 Menzieshill Play Trail

Dundee Partnership funding has been secured through the Lochee Regeneration Forum to provide a play trail in Menzieshill, based on safe and fun walking routes to the new Primary School. Additional funding was secured from Inspiring Scotland and this has enabled two 8 hour Play Rangers Posts to be advertised and filled for the Play Trail working collaboratively with Aberlour Childcare Trust. There will be an 8 hour post solely for the Menzieshill Play Trail and also a 23 hour post working between both Aberlour and the Play Trail. It is hoped the Play Ranger Free Play Sessions will begin in September. The funding runs until March 2016.

Dundee University Pathfinder Evaluation

Dr Sharon Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Social Work (Children and Families) and has been evaluating the work of the Lochee Pathfinder over the last few months. Sharon has been attending some of the Pathfinder activities and programmes primarily to allow her to observe and to allow an opportunity to speak to children, parents, staff and other agencies who attend the Lochee Pathfinder provision. Parents talk about having been able to build trusting relationships with staff who have helped them when they have asked for assistance and connect them with other forms of support where needed. In discussing the summer programme in particular and other forms of provision many of the parents have talked about the importance of being able to ‘do things’ with their children. Unsurprisingly, the expense of leisure and cultural activities can prevent many of the attending parents from being able to do things together as a family.

The report will concentrate on looking at what difference the Pathfinder has made and how it has been achieved to date. The report is in only in draft at present but will be circulated once complete.

Families that attended Family Splash at St Pauls High school were filmed as part of the Pathfinder evaluation. Families had given permission beforehand to be part of the video footage about their experiences of The Pathfinder.

Family Splash at St Pauls

Family Splash family fun sessions were held on a Friday afternoon over the Summer Holiday from 2-3pm. Due to the current closure of Lochee Leisure Centre the Lochee Pathfinder offered families transport to and from St Pauls High School Pool. Families took the opportunity to have fun in the pool over the summer. After swim sessions included a snack for everyone and different workers and agencies were involved in providing activities for the families.

5 6. DATES FOR THE DIARY

19th October Wellbeing Week – various 9.30 am-3.00 pm Lochee Library activities

23rd October Main Event Lochee Library

27th October Charleston Residents & 7.00 pm Craigowan Sheltered Tenants Association AGM Lounge

17th November Lochee Community 6.00 pm Lochee – venue to be Planning Partnership confirmed

Angie Hastie Communities Officer September 2015