New housing is more important

I PERSONALLY don’t see why Dundee needs a new Eden Project.

Can’t the council find better things to spend money on?

It could give overcrowded households more adequate housing and maybe help people who have been made redundant due to the pandemic with families to look after and are struggling to keep a roof over their heads and food on their tables.

Maybe it could see all homeless people have a roof over their heads too.

This would be more practical than spending thousands on a project.

Yes it would make the city look nice but the citizens of Dundee are far more important, especially this year with the pandemic.

COLIN CUMMINGS n IT’S really exciting to think Dundee could become home to a new Eden Project.

What a shot in the arm that would be for the tourist economy and jobs market, both in the building and the staffing of it.

I’m thinking it has to be Camperdown Park area – surely that’s the only space big enough to house such a project.

It would also shed light on why the council saw fit to close Camperdown Golf Course when so many were opposed to it.

FINGERS CROSSED n WHY do the naysayers complain about their city, then moan when someone tries to improve it?

I imagine the people who slate the V&A are also the ones opposed to the Eden Project.

Clearly culture and education are two things that have passed them by – borne out by their tiresome argument that the “money could be better spent”.

To be clear, Eden Project is an environmental charity, not a housing assocation.

And it’s their money, not the council’s.

Yes we need more affordable housing, but that’s a completely different debate.

Stop conflating the two as a mean to justify your own ignorance.

RUSSELL GLASS