October 21 2022

Dundee Football Club is hosting a second public consultation for a proposed stadium and mixed-use development at Camperdown Leisure Park.

Relocating from its historic Dens Park ground the club's owners, Dark Blue Property Holdings, believe the move is vital to ensure its future by moving to a 2-hectare edge of town site north of the Kingsway West ring road.

Part of a diversification strategy to reduce reliance on ticket sales the scheme would include a range of additional land uses including a training facility, hotel, shops, homes and a crematorium.

To that end, a design team led by LJRH Architects has been assembled to deliver on these aims with the 15,000-seat multi-use stadium and hotel forming a 'street-like area' as a processional route for crowds.

Conceding the unconventional nature of the mix of planned uses the applicant wrote: "While historically it was not unusual for places of worship to be built on city streets, amid the hubbub of everyday life, it is less common today and the combination of these activities requires careful consideration.

"The stadium is a generator of noise and activity, a place of raucous enjoyment, whereas the crematorium is a place of quiet reflection. Where one has vibrant energy the other should have dignity and gravitas. Users of both buildings will come with differing mindsets and will behave in very different ways that will make for an uncomfortable encounter should they meet. This suggests the need for ongoing management and coordination of timing to avoid the possibility of a funeral coinciding with a football match."

Comments are invited before 7 November.  

5 Comments

#1 Posted by outraged individual on 21 Oct 2022 at 20:55 PM

car dependent

#2 Posted by Colin on 21 Oct 2022 at 21:53 PM

St Johnston don’t seem to have issues because it’s segregated and matches are not played during the week through the day or Saturday mornings when funerals take place

#3 Posted by Darren on 22 Oct 2022 at 15:47 PM

This looks like half baked nonsense. Apart from looking like being entirely car dependant, it will create chaos on the local roads and for other business on match days. Good luck trying to get in or out from those new houses. It's far too tight and restricted a site. Simply not suitable for this type of development.

#4 Posted by Roddy_ on 24 Oct 2022 at 11:39 AM

It is astonishing to see that projects like this are still being brought forward- stick a car-dependant scheme on the edge of town and scatter some island buildings around a sea of surface car parking.
The only way this could conceivably work sustainably is as a transport oriented development - creating a new transport node and building some kind of a settlement around that.
Is this one of the last hurrahs of this kind of development before NPF4 is ratified and 20 minute neighbourhoods become the norm. I wonder...

#5 Posted by Harry the Hooligan on 25 Oct 2022 at 12:29 PM

Ofcourse it has to be car dependant - has anyone tried to get to a midweek away fixture on public transport on a damp November evening!

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