Official Nelmsy Campus Countdown

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in 114 days you can say this year it will happen.

Nelmsy will need to get Aneka Rice and her Challenge Aneka team to build his stadium in 355 days.

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Nelmsy will need to get Aneka Rice and her Challenge Aneka team to build his stadium in 355 days.

Used to like that, no as guid as Grand Designs though.....just in case resident TV critic looking in. 😁

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Used to like that, no as guid as Grand Designs though.....just in case resident TV critic looking in. ��

There are several posters on the DBF who do not think that there will any transport problems when the new stadium is built at Campy Nou.
They have a shock coming to them.
One poster stated that NCR used to employ 5,000 people and their employees had no problems getting to work walking across the Kingsway.
The correct figure was almost 10,000 people at its peak employed by NCR in Dundee and they worked in various factories on the industrial estate which is now called the Dunsinane Industrial Estate but it was previously called the Dryburgh Industrial Estate.
The NCR Camperdown factory was the first NCR factory in Dundee to be built and it probably had a workforce of about 1,000 people most of whom even up to the early 1960’s travelled to their work by foot or public transport.
Another poster stated that hundreds of people walked across the Kingsway to get to their work at Timex.
Back then the Kingsway was the bypass of Dundee with a single lane carriageway from the Camperdown roundabout to the Crematorium roundabout not the main trunk road from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Aberdeen with a dual carriageway and a barrier in the middle.
One poster stated that the new stadium development site is being built on brownfield land.
This is nonsense.
The new stadium development site is being built on the former NCR Camperdown playing fields which included football pitches, a cricket pitch, bowling green and tennis courts.
I have played bowls for Lochee Private Bowling Club against NCR Bowling Club on the the bowling green in the NCR Camperdown grounds and I have also played tennis on the tennis courts in the NCR Camperdown grounds.
Dundee Football Club first team players used to train on the football pitches in the NCR Camperdown grounds and I have watched them training when Archie Knox was the manager.
If the directors of Dark Blue Property Holdings Limited had ensured that former NCR playing fields had been properly maintained the area would not now look like a wilderness.
Another poster stated that people parked their cars around Dens Park on match days with no problems so there would no problem parking their cars in the streets of the housing schemes directly across the Kingsway from the new stadium.
This poster is obviously not aware of the new parking restrictions in the areas around Dens Park and Tannadice Park every time there is a league or cup match being played.
Interestingly none of the posters on the DBF mentioned the main transport problem which is the Myrekirk roundabout which has traffic lights on it.
All traffic travelling to the new stadium car parks at Campy Nou whether it is from the north, south, east or west has to negotiate the traffic lights at the Myrekirk roundabout to get to the new stadium car parks at Campy Nou.
Back in the 1960’s when hundreds of people were walking across the Kingsway to their work in Timex most Dundee FC supporters walked to home games at Dens Park or took public transport.
Nowadays the vast majority of Dundee FC supporters attending home games at Dens Park take their own car with few people walking to the game or using the Xplore Dundee buses to get there.
It will be worse with the new stadium at Campy Nou being built on the outskirts of Dundee.

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There are several posters on the DBF who do not think that there will any transport problems when the new stadium is built at Campy Nou.
They have a shock coming to them.
One poster stated that NCR used to employ 5,000 people and their employees had no problems getting to work walking across the Kingsway.
The correct figure was almost 10,000 people at its peak employed by NCR in Dundee and they worked in various factories on the industrial estate which is now called the Dunsinane Industrial Estate but it was previously called the Dryburgh Industrial Estate.
The NCR Camperdown factory was the first NCR factory in Dundee to be built and it probably had a workforce of about 1,000 people most of whom even up to the early 1960’s travelled to their work by foot or public transport.
Another poster stated that hundreds of people walked across the Kingsway to get to their work at Timex.
Back then the Kingsway was the bypass of Dundee with a single lane carriageway from the Camperdown roundabout to the Crematorium roundabout not the main trunk road from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Aberdeen with a dual carriageway and a barrier in the middle.
One poster stated that the new stadium development site is being built on brownfield land.
This is nonsense.
The new stadium development site is being built on the former NCR Camperdown playing fields which included football pitches, a cricket pitch, bowling green and tennis courts.
I have played bowls for Lochee Private Bowling Club against NCR Bowling Club on the the bowling green in the NCR Camperdown grounds and I have also played tennis on the tennis courts in the NCR Camperdown grounds.
Dundee Football Club first team players used to train on the football pitches in the NCR Camperdown grounds and I have watched them training when Archie Knox was the manager.
If the directors of Dark Blue Property Holdings Limited had ensured that former NCR playing fields had been properly maintained the area would not now look like a wilderness.
Another poster stated that people parked their cars around Dens Park on match days with no problems so there would no problem parking their cars in the streets of the housing schemes directly across the Kingsway from the new stadium.
This poster is obviously not aware of the new parking restrictions in the areas around Dens Park and Tannadice Park every time there is a league or cup match being played.
Interestingly none of the posters on the DBF mentioned the main transport problem which is the Myrekirk roundabout which has traffic lights on it.
All traffic travelling to the new stadium car parks at Campy Nou whether it is from the north, south, east or west has to negotiate the traffic lights at the Myrekirk roundabout to get to the new stadium car parks at Campy Nou.
Back in the 1960’s when hundreds of people were walking across the Kingsway to their work in Timex most Dundee FC supporters walked to home games at Dens Park or took public transport.
Nowadays the vast majority of Dundee FC supporters attending home games at Dens Park take their own car with few people walking to the game or using the Xplore Dundee buses to get there.
It will be worse with the new stadium at Campy Nou being built on the outskirts of Dundee.

How can you write such a long post yet make no valid point?

'It will be worse with the new stadium at Campy Nou being built on the outskirts of Dundee'. Please explain why, in your opinion, it will be worse, dying to read your ramblings.

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200 new houses just been approved for Western gateway.

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200 new houses just been approved for Western gateway.

How will the Myrekirk junction ever cope?

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How will the Myrekirk junction ever cope?

If you are giving approval for approx another 1000 cars in and out DAILY.....it's difficult to deny 2000 cars once a fortnight.

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Just another thought would it not be feasible to put traffic lights on Kingsway like they have between forfar Rd and old glamis.

No that I want to leave Dens but I'm gagging for council to approve just to see what Nelmsy will build.....if anything.

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Just another thought would it not be feasible to put traffic lights on Kingsway like they have between forfar Rd and old glamis.

No that I want to leave Dens but I'm gagging for council to approve just to see what Nelmsy will build.....if anything.

All that's needed is revised sequencing at Myrekirk and temporary traffic restrictions or, at a push, temporary traffic lights at the exit point. Might inconvenience the average traveler to the tune of five minutes, once a fortnight 10 months a year. Hardly an entire new housing estate worth of inconvenience.

I'm the same, I want to see it green lighted so we can get to the next delay.

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There are several posters on the DBF who do not think that there will any transport problems when the new stadium is built at Campy Nou.
They have a shock coming to them.
One poster stated that NCR used to employ 5,000 people and their employees had no problems getting to work walking across the Kingsway.
The correct figure was almost 10,000 people at its peak employed by NCR in Dundee and they worked in various factories on the industrial estate which is now called the Dunsinane Industrial Estate but it was previously called the Dryburgh Industrial Estate.
The NCR Camperdown factory was the first NCR factory in Dundee to be built and it probably had a workforce of about 1,000 people most of whom even up to the early 1960’s travelled to their work by foot or public transport.
Another poster stated that hundreds of people walked across the Kingsway to get to their work at Timex.
Back then the Kingsway was the bypass of Dundee with a single lane carriageway from the Camperdown roundabout to the Crematorium roundabout not the main trunk road from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Aberdeen with a dual carriageway and a barrier in the middle.
One poster stated that the new stadium development site is being built on brownfield land.
This is nonsense.
The new stadium development site is being built on the former NCR Camperdown playing fields which included football pitches, a cricket pitch, bowling green and tennis courts.
I have played bowls for Lochee Private Bowling Club against NCR Bowling Club on the the bowling green in the NCR Camperdown grounds and I have also played tennis on the tennis courts in the NCR Camperdown grounds.
Dundee Football Club first team players used to train on the football pitches in the NCR Camperdown grounds and I have watched them training when Archie Knox was the manager.
If the directors of Dark Blue Property Holdings Limited had ensured that former NCR playing fields had been properly maintained the area would not now look like a wilderness.
Another poster stated that people parked their cars around Dens Park on match days with no problems so there would no problem parking their cars in the streets of the housing schemes directly across the Kingsway from the new stadium.
This poster is obviously not aware of the new parking restrictions in the areas around Dens Park and Tannadice Park every time there is a league or cup match being played.
Interestingly none of the posters on the DBF mentioned the main transport problem which is the Myrekirk roundabout which has traffic lights on it.
All traffic travelling to the new stadium car parks at Campy Nou whether it is from the north, south, east or west has to negotiate the traffic lights at the Myrekirk roundabout to get to the new stadium car parks at Campy Nou.
Back in the 1960’s when hundreds of people were walking across the Kingsway to their work in Timex most Dundee FC supporters walked to home games at Dens Park or took public transport.
Nowadays the vast majority of Dundee FC supporters attending home games at Dens Park take their own car with few people walking to the game or using the Xplore Dundee buses to get there.
It will be worse with the new stadium at Campy Nou being built on the outskirts of Dundee.

I have read your lengthy take on the Camperdown Project and tbh don’t disagree with all you write. Like many Dees my heart is still with Dens but my head tends towards the new project. I also agree that eventual agreed planning permission does not automatically mean the place will be built however welcome it will be. I agree again like many that there are arguments on both sides pro and against Camperdown and that while there are a few on here that are 100% in favour and the majority are just wanting to know if it is to go ahead and mildly in favour but there are none so opposed as you Islay. Your opposition borders on an obsession and in some ways is bizarre in its intensity. Imo no true supporter of the club would be quite so negative and I reckon you let your hatred of JN cloud your judgement. Can you explain your campaign against Camperdown in any other way?