Plans to convert a dilapidated former jute mill into flats promise to breathe new life into the building.
Dundee city councillors will be asked to approve the site planning brief for the Queen Victoria Works and Regent Works following a public consultation.
A report prepared for the authority states: “The residents of the adjacent Coffin Mill/Pleasance Court buildings expressed their satisfaction to council officers on the draft site planning brief and hopes that the brief would trigger interest in comprehensive redevelopment of the site soon.”
The brief has been prepared as a guidance to stimulate interest for the redevelopment of the privately owned site.
According to Historic Scotland the listed Queen Victoria Works mill is recorded in the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland as being in poor condition.
However, it was not always the case. City archivist Iain Flett highlighted the importance of the mill to Dundee.
He said: “It was adapted over the decades, first opening as a flax and linen mill and later becoming a jute mill.”
While Queen Victoria was not as big as Cox Brothers or Baxter Brothers works at its busiest, a couple of hundred people would have worked at the mill, which was unique in being sited in the city centre.
Mr Flett said: “There would have been all these women on the mill floor working the reels of jute. The noise would have just been incredible.”
In the beginning the mill would have been water powered but quickly the machinery was replaced with steam-powered equipment.
“There would have been huge steam-powered beams going up and down,” Mr Flett added.
“Then as time progressed they improved the engines right up to the middle of the 20th Century, when it would have been diesel machinery.”
The mill closed in 1990 after 162 years the longest running mill in the city.
“The mill was shut and it’s just been left to fall apart,” Mr Flett said.
If plans for the building come to fruition it could once again be a bustling building in the heart of the city. The site planning brief states the mill would be suitable for conversion into a mix of two and three-bedroom flats and houses.