Fairmuir Park under threat

[BCram]

Obvious and good are not the same thing. Why would a councillor have to declare his football team?

Your problem seems to be that our neebs asked for something while we didn't, they got it, we didn't.

Maybe if our CEO had asked the question first,dfc might have been building a training facility at fairmuir.

Grantzer, that is part of the problem with arguing that it is wrong to do this because of who the beneficiary is. The principle of should green space be developed seems to me more important. Also what will happen to existing training facilities with the creation of a new facility. Will there be closures elsewhere? There was talk that Caird Park complex would be shared with DFC. It never happened and I never understood why.

[islaydarkblue]

Grantzer, that is part of the problem with arguing that it is wrong to do this because of who the beneficiary is. The principle of should green space be developed seems to me more important. Also what will happen to existing training facilities with the creation of a new facility. Will there be closures elsewhere? There was talk that Caird Park complex would be shared with DFC. It never happened and I never understood why.

I heard that it was going to cost too much resulting in cut backs which made it too small to share with DFC.
Originally it the Caird Park complex was to be built and shared between ourselves and United but that fell through.
Dundee City Council was previously in the running for the new Scottish Government sports complex next to the Liff Road entrance in Camperdown Park which ‘surprise surprise’ they decided to build at Riccarton on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

[hmac]

I heard that it was going to cost too much resulting in cut backs which made it too small to share with DFC.
Originally it the Caird Park complex was to be built and shared between ourselves and United but that fell through.
Dundee City Council was previously in the running for the new Scottish Government sports complex next to the Liff Road entrance in Camperdown Park which ‘surprise surprise’ they decided to build at Riccarton on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

It never made any sense to bring the Riccarton complex here, simply due the population in the central belt.

[BCram]

It never made any sense to bring the Riccarton complex here, simply due the population in the central belt.

Think you are right. Scale has a big part to play when making infrastructure type decisions and it is hard to argue that a national resource should be based in Dundee unless there were geographical advantages.

[islaydarkblue]

Think you are right. Scale has a big part to play when making infrastructure type decisions and it is hard to argue that a national resource should be based in Dundee unless there were geographical advantages.

I disagree. In my opinion it is ridiculous that everything is centralised in the Central Belt of Scotland.
Politicians are continually demanding that civil services jobs should be moved out of London and into the rest of the UK
The same should be for Scotland,
Move Scottish Government jobs and the Scottish National Sports Centre out of Edinburgh into other parts of Scotland including Dundee. If people can now work from home then there is no requirement for the bulk of Scottish Government jobs to be based in Edinburgh.