HISTORY OF THE SITE
Several attempts have been made to bring the building back into use. Most notably in 2015 and again in 2017 when developers submitted plans to the City Council (which were approved), to convert the premises into residential apartments.
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Unfortunately neither scheme has been implemented due to difficulties in achieving financial viability for the projects, and ultimately, a lack of interest from funding partners/institutions. Therefore the previous developers decided to sell the property on.
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Scodd acquired the property in Jan 2021, and is keen to bring the building back into use as soon as possible. Implementing any proposal on the site is difficult given the age, condition and size of the existing building, but Scodd believes that its proposal will result in the property finally being redeveloped, and brought back into use.
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Not only would the successful implementation of a redevelopment scheme result in a significant aesthetic improvement to the City skyline, but it would remove the current anti social behaviour issues, bring significant investment to the City (some £30m), and also create both short and long term employment opportunities.
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Further details on our proposal are available on request and we would very much welcome your views. Please contact us for more details.
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A further opportunity to comment to the Planning Authority will be available as part of the planning application in due course. A summary of all comments received at this time will also be included when the planning application is submitted.
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Unfortunately, Covid restrictions make a public consultation/meeting impossible, but we hope the information made available here, plus the notices in the local press will ensure sufficient information is available.
For many years, 30 Constitution Road was affectionately known as ‘the Conshy’. Built between 1966 and 1969, the building was occupied by Dundee College, which opened its doors in May 1970.
Each tower was used for classrooms (including a purpose built lecture theatre in the bottom of the East tower) with all communal areas (eg cafeteria, gymnasium etc.) being located on the ground floor to link the two towers.
The building consists of two ‘towers’ of 9 storeys to the East, and 5 storeys to the West.
Since that time, the building has been vacant and continued to deteriorate considerably. It is now in a very poor state of repair and unfortunately regularly attracts anti social behaviour ranging from petty vandalism to drug abuse.
At the turn of the century, the building was in dire need of refurbishment, with the flat roof regularly leaking and lifts seemingly always broken. The building was also far too small and ill suited to education requirements of the time, so in 2003 the decision was made that the College would vacate.
