New mixed use plans submitted for Dundee’s City Quay

A planning application has been submitted to Dundee City Council for a mixed-use development of a site located at the heart of the former Victoria and Camperdown docks.The proposals for the vacant site on the City Quay, currently being used as a car park and site compound, have been put forward by developer Victoria Dock (Dundee) Ltd in partnership with Hillcrest Housing Association.The organisations have jointly worked up the plans to transform the site for residential and commercial/retail use.Project architects JM Architects prepared the application with its interpretation of the client brief and the consultees responses have very much shaped proposed scheme. The practice has been very conscious of history of the industrial river’s edge and the powerful modern and traditional urban architecture surrounding the site.It is hoped that the site will deliver 122 new homes which will range in size. There will be two main buildings, which are six and seven storeys, along with associated parking and amenity space.If approved, Victoria Dock (Dundee) Limited will deliver the affordable homes for Hillcrest Housing Association over the next two years. It is hoped that works will start on the site in late 2018 with the new homes handed over to Hillcrest by late 2020.