DCC Draft Minutes August 2016

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The main points from the Dunbar Community Council Meeting held on 15 August 2016 were as follows:

  • Steel wires across Dunbar Hight Street to support Christmas lights will shortly be replaced. Work will commence on 29 August and will require closure of the High Street.
  • There have been reports of youungsters indulging in dangerous “tombstoning” from the Castle rocks into the harbour mouth. Police have intervened on occasions.
  • Quotations will be sought for installing a concrete groyne and the “mattressing” of the exposed sewage pipe in an effort to restore sand to East Beach.
  • Concern was expressed at the possibility of reduced services at Belhaven Hospital.
  • Quotations are being sought to clean and restore Dunbar War Memorial.
  • There will be a re-enactment of the Battle of Dunbar on 17/18 September.