A former police officer is campaigning to force the council to remove asbestos from car garages and lock-ups across Perth and Kinross.
Father-of-two Murdo MacDonald, 51, believes the carcinogen could be harming children.
Perth and Kinross Council is reviewing the use of all the 1,780 units it owns and operates and a consultation has been launched.
But Mr MacDonald insists the process should be fast-tracked to protect the public.
He obtained figures from the council under Freedom of Information legislation which show that, of the sites it tested for asbestos, all 30 came back positive.
Mr MacDonald also paid a private firm to test for asbestos at several garages and many of the samples were found to contain white asbestos, which the company described as a “class 1 human carcinogen”, which should only be handled by “expert contractors”.
“It’s got to the stage where somebody in the community has to take a stand and decide enough is enough,” Mr MacDonald told The Courier.
“I’ve got children and I want my kids to grow up healthy. There are kids going about here now and all those garages are bleeding fibres.
“Young kids whose lungs are growing are breathing in these spores and these fibres. There is not a test been done to say that ground is clear. Somebody needs to take it on board and look at it.”
Mr Macdonald, from Bridge of Earn, served with the Metropolitan Police before retiring in 2005 and starting a taxi firm in Perth.
He discovered that some garages and lock-ups are unusable after asking the council for permission to rent a site near Rannoch Road.
He explained: “The council kept telling me they were let and I thought it was strange because I’m sitting there 365 days a year in my taxi and I never saw a soul.
“I phoned every single councillor and only Dave Doogan took it on board. He arranged for them to be opened and every single one was empty. This was before asbestos was even mentioned.
“What I want now is the council to fix this. It has to be done, by law.”
The council’s housing spokesman Dave Doogan said: “Mr MacDonald has worked very hard to bring this issue to people’s attention and it is very public-spirited.
“At all times I have been happy to listen to Mr MacDonald’s ambitions on this, which have coincided with the council’s review of the situation.”
The SNP councillor recently brought an update report on garages and lock-ups before the housing committee, which pledged to consult with communities.
He said: “When I took over as convener, I had serious issue with garages and lock-ups across Perth and Kinross, stemming largely from the fact the previous administration failed to get a grip of this issue.
“As new convener, I was happy to support officers’ ambitions to come up with a much more positive solution.
“The first action we took was to commission a condition survey and from here on we will consult with local residents.”
The housing spokesman also insisted that the administration is committed to removing asbestos from all garages and lock-ups in the region.
“Where it’s found in council-owned garages and lock-ups, it will be removed in a method that fully recognises the potential hazard of that material,” Councillor Doogan told The Courier.
“Any action in this regard will take full recognition of public safety.”
He added: “As decisions are taken about individual sites, any removal work will follow on from this.”