A cycle path and walkway connecting the coastal route close to Broughty Fortress is ready to be accepted subsequent week.
The route can be laid by way of Fortress Inexperienced Park and Windmill Gardens if councillors wave the proposals by way of as anticipated.
It’s only a small a part of a £9 million effort to create a steady and segregated off-road coastal hyperlink by way of the Dundee and Angus border, alongside the Esplanade.
The broader mission, which is along with the multi-million-pound flood safety scheme, doesn’t want planning permission.
Fortress Inexperienced contains a fashionable play park, small water park, and loopy golf.
The Pavilion at Windmill Gardens automotive park serves seasonal lifeguard companies and has altering amenities/bogs.
Design will complement ‘very particular’ Broughty Ferry
Macleod Consulting submitted the plans on behalf of the council’s head of design and property.
Nicoll Russell Studios got here up with the design.
In a report included within the software, the corporate says Fortress Inexperienced Park and Windmill Backyard are “maybe too enclosed” to a degree the place “their use in nearly discouraged”.
It additionally says: “When on the riverfront, the connection to the lengthy seaside and dunes is clearly essential.
“However regardless of their proximity the river is unseen from Fortress Inexperienced, separated by panorama, berms and the vestiges of dunes which have been maybe inappropriately grassed over thereby additionally creating upkeep challenges as properly.
“So the inexperienced appears out to the encompassing village and the fort and has little in the best way of intrinsic seaside qualities.”
The plan set to be mentioned is a part of a wider mission which can see a cycle path constructed alongside The Esplanade. A design picture of that is pictured above.
The beachfront pathway may even be widened with new seating areas, stairs, ramp and an ‘offline’ vantage level to enhance entry to the seaside.
The report provides: “Broughty Ferry, its fort, harbour and riverfront are a really particular place so the proposals have subsequently been developed to a typical in step with that.
“Likewise the riverfront, the seaside and the Fortress Inexperienced Park are an exquisite useful resource for folks of all ages and pursuits so that they have additionally sought to rejoice in that setting.”
Public session
Bushes might be changed within the neighborhood of the brand new entry to Fortress Terrace Gardens and a brand new avenue of timber planted alongside Mill Avenue.
Russell Pepper, from the Dundee Cycle Discussion board, says the group helps the plan and describes it as “key half” of connecting Dundee and Monifieth.
He did nevertheless stress the general public would like one addition.
He mentioned: “We would like it if the route segregated cyclists and pedestrians as that is the easiest way to encourage folks to make use of energetic journey and it’s what folks wished within the session.”
The hyperlink is being funded by way of the Scottish Authorities’s Locations For Everybody fund, administered by main biking charity Sustrans.
The plan has been really useful for approval by planning officers and might be voted on on the council’s planning committee on Monday.
