The animation is coloured in this way to try to let people understand that the street blocks will probably comprise different and separate building in the same way as street blocks in the existing city centre. It is unlikely there will be many developers interested in doing whole street blocks. Even if there are some we expect each street block to be mixed use - some office , some flats and some ground floor commercial use, and the different colours kind of help explain this.

We are establishing a Design Advisory Group including representatives of the Dundee Civic Trust, City Centre Action Group (traders group), City Centre and Harbour Community Council, Dundee Historic Environment Trust, University of Dundee Architecture School, Dundee Institute of Architects. This group will help us evolve the urban design aspects. However I would say that we think one approach might be to reflect on the city's heritage and the historic connection there was with the Baltic ports, where the waterfronts and city centres were, and are, quite colourful. In fact historically Dundee High St was probably quite colourful, ref. Gardyne's Land. Equally stone would be very acceptable but cost will probably creep in as a factor, so there might not be as much as some people might like.

One basic factor however has to be how do we distinguish Dundee from other places. Many new waterfronts and major redevelopment schemes, for instance in central Manchester, Salford Quays Glasgow Harbour or Leith have a similarity of architecture and currently fashionable materials. This I think will be the starting point for our Design Advisory Group.