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Council accused of forgetting “ordinary” Dundee folk

Stella will received the British Empire Medal in recognition of years of community service.
Stella will received the British Empire Medal in recognition of years of community service.

Community campaigners have accused Dundee City Council of forgetting “ordinary” people as the local authority ploughs ahead with the Waterfront development.

Dundee’s former citizen of the year and local champion Stella Carrington has joined forces with Lochee councillor Tom Ferguson to urge the council to pay more attention to areas of high deprivation.

Both feel the regeneration of Dundee will be a good thing for Dundonians, but have questioned whether or not the entire city will benefit from it.

According to Charleston campaigner Stella, local people are already expressing concerns that they will not reap any benefits from the £1billion project.

Stella believes estates like Charleston and Lochee will enjoy very little change as a result of the development and cast doubt on whether the venture was designed to be used by everyone.

She said: “I do feel sometimes that the rest of the estates get forgotten about.

“With the Waterfront, the bit of space with grass that has been set aside is ridiculous.

“The whole of the space should have been developed for the people of Dundee, not just for big hotels and yuppie flats.

“The V&A will be good for Dundee, but when they say the money will trickle down to ordinary men and women, I think it’ll trickle down very little.”

2015 Dundee citizen of the year Stella claimed any regeneration that goes on in Dundee’s housing estates is done by the community.

She added: “The V&A is the be all and end all, that’s the way people feel.
“I’ve been to Marmaris and it is a boom town, but it has a lot of poor. It will be the same here in Dundee.”

Local councillor Tom Ferguson echoed Stella’s views and insisted that projects like the Waterfront must not be carried out to the detriment of other areas of the city.

He said: “The Waterfront and other projects should not be done to the detriment of areas like Lochee.

“These are multi-deprivation areas.

“We need our city to be brought up equally.

“We are all really pushing for the Waterfront, but for goodness sake, please do not forget about the areas that are on the deprivation map.”

Dundee City Council did not respond to a request for comment.