Dundee FC prepares application for put contemporary stadium

Holmes Miller Architects has been appointed by Dundee FC to birth work on designing a brand contemporary stadium for the club.

The mission will gaze the enchancment of plans for a brand contemporary stadium as section of a blended-use growth at Camperdown, to interchange the club’s most as a lot as date home of Dens Park, which dates relieve to 1899.

Holmes Miller indulge in labored with LJRH of Dundee to blueprint a masterplan centred on the contemporary stadium. A planning permission in concept application (PPiP) covering the proposals will be lodged this month, the club acknowledged..

Holmes Miller is the architect in the relieve of the contemporary Windsor Park National Stadium in Belfast, York Crew Stadium and the most as a lot as date imaginative and prescient for Hampden Park in Glasgow.

Dundee’s contemporary stadium will consist of a stable-standing tell, activated concourse areas and LED screens. The plan will furthermore indulge in a 1,000-ability multi-use venue, tiered hospitality experiences, and a 250-ability beer corridor. At 12,500, ability will be only marginally higher than the present Dens Park stadium, which holds 11,775.

The broader notion furthermore involves a 120-room resort, coaching products and services for the club, a residential growth and a crematorium.

Holmes Miller mission director Ian Cooney acknowledged: “Dundee is a station beloved by its other folks and possesses many cultural sources, and this mission is an offering to a future-going by metropolis. Holmes Miller’s assemble will offer a twenty first century fan skills to engage a brand contemporary generation of Dundee FC supporters and voters at this multi-use venue.

“Our stadium theory will embody the spirit and heritage of Dens Park, with authenticity key to the assemble. This would possibly possibly well perchance even be centred round a as a lot as date matchday skills for Dundee followers, with the flexibility to flex for a diversity of cultural and civic events on non-matchdays.”

Dundee FC chief govt John Nelms acknowledged: “The mission team were working with an in depth planning and consultants team to make certain we now indulge in a sturdy commercial case and mission evaluate prepared for the local council as section of the planning permission in concept route of.

“We’re searching to assemble Dundee Football Club and the stadium campus mission a key section of the metropolis’s regeneration, and we now were encouraged by feedback from the council that they are committed to serving to get rid of barriers and working with developers to tempo up projects that will relieve the regeneration.

“We peek forward to working in partnership with the council for the length of this route of and are searching to give Dundee followers a stadium befitting our future ambitions, one that is viable seven days per week by diverse entertainment and tournament offerings – as smartly as to cheering on the Darkish Blues.

“It’s some distance our commitment to a colorful and sustainable future for our club and the metropolis and we’re angry to portion a glimpse of what that future will peek fetch. We hope that as smartly as difficult followers, the visualisation of the contemporary stadium reveals we’re sure to honour our history and heritage and make certain Dens Park, which has been our spiritual home for nearly 125 years, can inspire the assemble of our contemporary home and form the club’s future.”

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