The blocked Drains, poor pavement and bins that require cleaning.

I have made this short film , the reason being I am a local councillor and this is part of my ward, poeple stop me every day when up I am up the street asking when these issues will be repaired some have been reported but as a councillor on the front line and the people expect these issues to be dealt with , one can only apologise so often to the people. The people don’t ask for much but when it comes to the basics they expect these problems to be dealt with in a reasonably time. A couple of weeks ago the whitsands was flooded but not by the river it was water that fell within the town centre and flowed onto the Whitesands, if these drains had been cleaned and serviced and the water could enter them this flooding might never have happened. So it would save me having to continue to apologise to the people if these issues in the film were addresses and a maintenance schedule was put in place for regular maintenance. I drove to Edinburgh recently and on the way I came across a new drain cleaning machine along with its operators cleaning the street drains, it was good to see that and it brought me in mind of Dumfries and if that machine could spend a few days here to clean the ones in Dumfries especially around our high street. There is talk that our town board want to see this happen and so do the people-in Dumfries, I would not need to apologise so often .
David Slater
Dumfries