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Members of the public who wish to share their views on the Waterfront Project will have their comments posted here....


Date Name Comment
18/08/2008 Administrator Forum launched
04/08/2009 Sven van Sweeden What really becomes apparant when you look at all the streets leading to the city centre you see cars and a small section of footpath. Why not utilise a few streets as pedestrian zone with cycle paths now is the time to do it. By the way it would be a cheaper alternative.

Make the city centre a safer and more environmently friendly place no cars on the main event square. Even when it does mean a tunnel get it right and make our city a safe and nice place to be. This is a small price to pay to open up the waterfront once and for all
04/08/2009 Les Banks Pedestrian comfort is a priority factor for us. Accommodating cyclists is also important. In fact we expect to make substantial use of the Central Civic Space in regard to both of these. In fact one aspect of pedestrian comfort we need to give thought to is weather protection for the winter months.   The new pedesrian crossing close to the station, that replaced an unloved overbridge demostrates how we intend to give greater priority to pedestrians and make it comfortable to cross the streets.   Very early in the ideas stage for the Waterfront radical proposals such as diverting the Tay Road Bridge to an alternative landfall and putting the through road traffic underground were examined. The tunnel idea had to be dropped because there is already a tunnel there carrying the railway north towards Aberdeen. Trying to get below this and  link with the Tay Road Bridge and also up again to meet with East Marketgait and East Dock St proved impossible. It was equally impossible to link in to West Marketgait.
08/08/2009 John Campbell Why is there so much high building work going on at the City Quay area?
Surely this will be detrimental to the over all plan for the waterfront?

10/08/2009 Les Banks The offices being built close to the Tay Road Bridge by the UnicornPropery Group are not particularly high at 5 storeys. This is not unusual in the city centre.
12/08/2009 John Fraser I recently returned to Dundee to visit family from Cheshire and was very impressed with the city quay development.  I hope that you develop some of the themes in that area and that you will continue to consult with both locals and visitors to achieve your vision...
12/08/2009 Les Banks

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.

28/08/09 Dean Harper I applaud the work going into improve Dundee's waterfront area in order to make the most of it. I have to say its about time although many of the new offices already constructed around this area would seem to me to detract from the area. For example the tax office. There were incredible views from Marketgate/Nethergate right down to RRS Discovery and across to Fife before these building went up. I simply cannot understand the reason for ruining this view. However this is not the reason for this post.

I read with interest the plans for the new road layout for the waterfornt with the two boulevards to carry traffic through this area. Have the planners thought about putting the roads underground in a tunnel, like the railway currently is? This would make this area so much more pedestrian friendly and of course negate the need from traffic lights all over the place, which only serve to cause traffic problems at peak times.
03/09/09 Les Banks Thanks you for your interest in the Waterfront Project. Indeed one of the first options to be considered many years ago now was to try to put the through traffic underground. The problem however is the railway tunnel. You have to get under it to get to and from East Dock St. Connecting from this to the Tay Road Bridge would also be problematic. We genuinely feel the arrangement proposed is the most practical.
     

 

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