Development Management

Where you have made an application for planning permission and want to challenge the decision (or where no decision has been made within the set timescale), you will have the right to appeal. The right to seek an appeal/review lasts for 3 months from the date of the Decision Notice or 3 months from the date of expiry of the period allowed for determining the application. The way in which your application has been determined will influence who undertakes the appeal or review. Please check the information contained within your Decision Notice as this will tell you how to proceed.

Dundee City Council decides which parts of the City are worthy of protection for their special character as Conservation Areas, to designate such areas and ensure their future management. Conservation Areas are areas of special architectural and/or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance.

Details of Dundee’s 17 Conservation Areas can be viewed by following the links.

• Conservation Area Map (2.7MB PDF)
• West End Suburbs Conservation Appraisal (2.8Mb PDF)

This conservation area combines and extends the Perth Road Terraces, Perth Road West, and West Park Gardens Conservation Areas, all dating from 1984.

• Conservation Area Map (406KB PDF)
• Conservation Area Appraisal (3.21MB PDF)

The West End Lanes Conservation Area is based on the 1984 Perth Road Lanes and 1971 Magdalen Place Conservation Areas, with minor additions.

• Conservation Area Appraisal (1.31MB PDF)
• Conservation Area Map (721KB PDF)

This incorporates the former South Tay Street and University Precinct areas, first designated in 1984, and Springfield, designated in 1971.

• Conservation Area Appraisal (1.04MB PDF)
• Conservation Area Map (2.02MB PDF)

Trottick Conservation Area is located to the immediate north of the Caird Park, just west of the Forfar Road.

Reres Hill Conservation Area

• Conservation Area Map (3MB PDF)
• Conservation Area Appraisal (3.17MB PDF)

Maryfield has a quiet residential character, containing mostly detached, semi-detached and terraced houses. The few tenements in the area are of a particularly high quality and nestle between Mains Loan and the Forfar Road.

• Conservation Area Map (1.03MB PDF)
• Conservation Area Appraisal (2.04MB PDF)

The land which now makes up the Logie Conservation area was once part of the Balgay Estate, most of which was sold for housing development in the 18th century. A housing scheme at Logie was proposed by the then City Architect James Thompson in 1918 in his "Report on the Development of the City".