Leader tours new Drumgeith Community Campus and Greenfield Academy

Dundee City Council leader Councillor Mark Flynn visited the site of the new Drumgeith Community Campus and Greenfield Academy on Wednesday March 19 to see progress on the £100 million development. 

As the largest investment in education, sport and community provision in the city, the flagship Community Campus will deliver state-of-the-art facilities and services to the area.  

Greenfield Academy will replace the current Braeview Academy and Craigie High School. 

Set to open in August 2025, Drumgeith Community Campus will serve as a modern and vibrant central hub for the north and east of the city for both pupils and the community to use.  

It will provide specialist pupil support provision, citywide music and performing arts, as well as community, library, leisure, and sports facilities for use by the wider community.   

Facilities at the campus will support partnership working with Dundee & Angus College to provide Senior Phase Education curricular experiences for young people with complex additional support needs. 

Sport facilities which include floodlit all weather pitches, a fitness suite and a dance studio in addition to gym and games halls.  

Councillor Flynn said: “This is a really exciting time for the whole community, and I am pleased to see progress on such an important investment for the future of our city. 

“It will host superb facilities for young people and the wider community that will help them to develop skills to take advantage of new opportunities in the years ahead. 

“Drumgeith Community Campus and Greenfield Academy show our ambition to deliver real improvements and make the city a better place for everyone. 

“I am delighted that pupils are also getting the chance to look at facilities that will become their learning environment from the start of the next school year.” 

Children, Families and Communities Convener Councillor Stewart Hunter said: “Our ambition is for the campus to be the heart of the community with state-of-the-art facilities for everyone to enjoy and it’s great to see the vision coming together.”  

Fair Work, Economic Growth and Infrastructure Convener Steven Rome added: “This £100 million investment in creating the Drumgeith Community Campus in the north east of the city is a significant project to transform educational and community facilities, replacing two outdated school buildings with a secondary placed within a modern and vibrant campus.” 

Drumgeith Community Campus is being delivered through Procurement Hub Major Projects 2 Framework. 

Elliot Robertson, Chief Executive Officer, Robertson Group, said: “As we near completion of the state-of the-art campus and academy, it’s been fantastic to show how we have realised Dundee City Council’s ambitious vision, which will be at the heart of the community for generations to come.   

“We have been partner of choice with the Council for several years now and this project represents a shared vision of creating modern, sustainable, high quality buildings that make a difference to the people who use them, as well as the local economy through the construction process and beyond.”