Dundee FC slam 'unhelpful procedural developments' amid new stadium plans limbo

Dundee Football Club has revealed they are “frustrated” as the planning application process for their proposed new stadium is still ongoing.

Managing director John Nelms revealed the Dees have racked up a £3.5m bill before the Camperdown Stadium Development Project has even been green lit.

In April of this year, the club stated that talks with Transport Scotland over a suitable entrance were holding up the move.

However, in the most recent statement, Nelms accused the national transport agency for Scotland of uploading a consultation response based on “out-of-date information.”

The managing director says this is just the most recent in “a series of inexplicable procedural anomalies” that have hit the huge project.

Dundee City Council was accused by the dark blues of “unexpected delays” to vital responses.

Nelms states that a Draft Traffic Management Plan was submitted on March 5, however, Dundee FC did not receive a response from the local authority until July 24.

The plan was also submitted to Transport Scotland who didn’t provide a response until August 8.

The managing director says the club has been “increasingly alarmed by unhelpful procedural developments” which are blocking the construction of “an ambitious multi-use stadium and event campus.”

Nelms said: “We will continue the fight – though we had never intended or foreseen it being thus – to show our ambition for the City of Dundee and our commitment to a prosperous future for Dundee Football Club, its fans and, indeed, its rivals.

“The outcome of this process will, of course, have future ramifications for all fans, irrespective of the colour of their scarves.

“We now urge the most senior elected figures within Dundee City Council, together with Scottish Government and Holyrood parliamentarians to pay close attention as we approach a critical juncture of this long-running process.”

Dundee City Council and Transport Scotland have been contacted for comment.