The Camperdown project happened as a result of the joint venture originally between DBPHL, Dundee United and Dundee City Council to build a large sports centre and training pitches at Caird Park costing a rumoured £30 million.
The Dabs dropped out leaving the Directors of DBPHL and Dundee City Council to go it alone.
The leader of the Scottish Greens Maggie Chapman who is now Green list MSP organised a protest about several trees being chopped down to allow this sports centre to be built.
Dundee City Council ran out of money and in June 2016 the Caird Park project was scrapped.
I heard through the grapevine that Dundee City Council officials played their ‘get out of jail card’ and tipped off the directors of DBPHL that the 29.7 acres site at the former NCR Camperdown grounds was being advertised for sale.
The Dundee City Council officials must have assumed that the directors of DBPHL would apply for planning permission to build a new large sports centre with training pitches not a new stadium development.