A Dundee developer has been turned down in his bid to build a state-of-the-art football centre.
City council planners have rejected Imran Amin’s application to open the indoor facility at Baldovie Industrial Estate.
In January The Courier reported on Mr Amin’s vision to construct a massive football training facility containing six pitches and using the latest in synthetic surfaces at the former Wood Group factory off Forties Road.
The ambitious blueprint even managed to bridge the city’s great footballing divide with both professional teams expressing support, as well as local politicians.
However, after considering the application, the local authority has determined the site is not suitable for such a project and falls foul of various planning policies and adopted local plan.
In their decision in a letter to the applicant’s agent, Leadingham Jameson Rogers & Hynd, it read, “The proposals fail to demonstrate that an industrial location is required for the indoor football centre and that there are no sites available within the existing leisure parks, the city centre or district centres that could accommodate the proposed development.”
During the application process only one letter of objection was lodged, from an existing indoor football training centre in the city.
In all six letters in support of the application were submitted, including from Dundee FC and the Scottish Football Association.
It is not clear if Mr Amin will now launch an appeal. Leadingham Jameson Rogers & Hynd were contacted to comment on this yesterday, but no one was available to do so.