Strathmartine Connections

Strathmartine Connections aims to create new and improved placemaking throughout St Leonard Park and into the greenspace at Baldragon Academy, with road safety improvements at St Andrews Primary School, Strathmartine roundabout and the nearby streets and greenspaces, making it easier, safer and more attractive for people walking, wheeling and cycling.

You can read more about the interventions that are being considered and the background of the project in the sections below.

Residents who live around St Leonard Park have for a long time experienced flooding and significant disruption to property during storms and extreme weather events. As a response to this challenge and the predicted increase in events due to Climate Change, Water Resilient Dundee, a partnership between Dundee City Council and Scottish Water, are developing a Sustainable Drainage Strategy for the area.

This project proposes to re-open the Back Burn which currently runs beneath St Leonard Park and will create an open watercourse through the park that continues through the greenspaces at Baldragon Academy.

This proposal provides an exciting opportunity to showcase what can be achieved by retrofitting sustainable drainage into an existing landscape. It aims to create imaginative multifunctional, multi-beneficial nature based solutions which will provide improvements not only for drainage, but also for recreation, biodiversity, nature, active travel, community identity and health and wellbeing.

When the St Leonard Park Regeneration was first presented to the public, there was a lot of feedback suggesting that improvements to the park would be great, but that there is a need to make it safer, easier and more attractive to travel to and through the park.

For that reason Strathmartine Connections is developing new walking and cycling routes through the park and to nearby schools, shops and clubs.

These improvements will require significant investment which will transform St Leonard Park and Strathmartine Roundabout. To ensure that the investment creates as much value as possible, the project also aims to include a new walking and cycling route connecting Macalpine Road to Harestane Road, Laird Street to Camperdown Road and Strathmartine Road tying together the local schools, supporting and enabling more of the community to walk, wheel and cycle to school and the new park facilities.

Making the park nicer, safer and more accessible for all users will also bring great health and wellbeing benefits and encourage more residents to use active travel to access businesses, shops and sports clubs.

Strathmartine Connections currently consists of 7 interventions that we welcome your feedback on. The interventions are

1. Permanent School Street on St Leonard Place at St Andrew’s Primary School
2. Cycle track and "park and stride"
3. Park regeneration to improve play opportunities and reduce flooding
4. Improve Strathmartine Roundabout
5. New route to Baldragon Academy
6. Cycle Skills Course
7. (Future) route to Camperdown Road

You can see all the interventions on the map above. The project will still include all the proposed improvements to the park that were developed for the Sustainable Drainage Project, which you can see  here .

The design team is currently developing concept design for the drainage and active travel elements. Proposals have been crafted based on the previous feasibility study and community feedback. A consultation event on the 6 ^th  of November 2024 which showcased the proposals in detail, the consultation boards can be downloaded  here. 

Please use the Form below to tell us your thoughts. The survey is open until 5pm on Friday 31 ^st  January.

A community event was held on the 6 ^th  November at St Leonard’s and St Fergus Church with the aim of gaining the local community’s views on the proposals above. The consultation boards for the event can be viewed here, these give a higher level of detail into the proposals.

As part of the engagement we would also like to gain feedback on how we can improve walking, wheeling and accessibility connections to the Schools and Community facilities within the wider Neighbourhood boundary (blue).

Please leave as many comments and ideas as you like on our Placecheck map below, which will remain live throughout the project.

Think about what issues you experience and where there are problems that you would like to see sorted. 

Problems could include: areas where you don’t feel safe | places where it’s difficult to cross the road | places where it’s difficult to push a wheelchair, or walk or cycle with children

Suggestions could include: new or improved road crossings | wider footways | speed restrictions on roads | seating | lighting | green space/planting | cycle parking

 These are the standard Placecheck pins:

• Green =something I like
• Red = something I don't like
• Orange = something that needs work

Strathmartine Connections is a part of Water Resilient Dundee and the project is being delivered by Dundee City Council, Scottish Water, Sustrans and Transport Scotland.