Plan for school site

Downfield Primary may be sold for new housing

THE former Downfield Primary School is likely to be sold for housing, the Tele can reveal.

It is understood councillors are being asked to approve the sale of the building to a city developer for half a million pounds

Members of Dundee City Council’s city development committee will be asked next week to consider plans to develop the site on East School Road.

Discussion about the proposed development is to be held in private at the meeting on Monday.

The Tele has learned that Aberkell Developments from Kellas, on the outskirts of Dundee, is the preferred bidder to develop housing on the site.

A source told the Tele that it is being recommended that Aberkell buys the land for just over £500,000.

It is understood that the proposals are for 14 properties on the site — five houses and nine flats.

The former Downfield School annexe in East School Road has already been identified as a potential housing development with space for 25 new homes.

Aberkell has been behind the redevelopment of several other buildings in Dundee.

Last month it lodged an application for planning permission to build three two-storey houses and convert a care home into three flats and extend the building to accommodate a further four flats, as well as construct a car park in Rankine Street.

In January, the company was also granted permission to demolish a property in the city and replace it with three new houses.

The plans involved demolishing a house at 48 Adelaide Place in the Law area and creating three detached twostorey homes.

At the end of 2016, the company was also behind plans to convert a former health clinic on Dudhope Terrace into housing.

It proposed the subdivision of the clinic into four residential flats.

Aberkell Developments was formed in 2016.

There are two directors — Gregory Davie and Stephen Mulgrew.

The company is based at Gagie Holdings, Kellas.

The site of the former Downfield Primary School.