Council puts brakes on overnight delivery plan for Dundee Asda

Councillors have rejected plans to allow overnight deliveries at Asda’s Milton of Craigie store.

Neighbours slammed the company, claiming that, even without permission, deliveries come and go at all hours.

One of the conditions of the supermarket’s planning permission was that deliveries would not be made between 10pm and 7am but the company had decided to try to get greater flexibility.

A representative of the residents told the city council’s development management committee: “There is noise at all hours. Douglas Road is a very quiet road at night. The noise of the deliveriescoming and going will be on a background of little else. Some people have even had to move their bedrooms to the back of their houses because of the noise.”

Asda had argued that the noise levels would be kept to a minimum and would not be out of the ordinary.

It said it would fit a system to enable the store gates to open before lorries arrived to prevent them idling on the access road and the lorries would not use bleepers when reversing.

However, councillors were not convinced and the plans were rejected.