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New details released for revamp of old building

AN iconic Dundee building which has featured in the city’s skyline for more than four decades is set for a new lease of life.

Fresh plans to turn a former Dundee College campus into flats, a cinema, cafe and laundrette have been lodged with the city council.

The campus was built in 1970 and closed its doors for the final time in 2011.

Moves to transform the building — which saw thousands of students enter its doors in its days as a college — have been in the pipeline since 2014.

In 2015, plans were submitted by Whiteburn Projects to convert the building into 110 one and twobedroom flats and were granted planning permission in August last year.

The £15 million project was given the green light, but in summer 2016 factors including the UK voting to leave the European Union led the investment pool to conclude that putting money into property in Dundee was regarded as having a higher risk profile and the funds were no longer available.

If approved, the latest plans — submitted by Voxcap Investments (Dundee) Limited — would see the former education facility at Constitution Road turned into 111 apartments and 24 short-stay serviced apartments.

Included in the latest application are images of how the proposed site could look.

Covering an area of 2.26 acres, the