Names chosen for new waterfront streets in Dundee

More than 500 suggestions were sent in from the public for potential new street names

Names have been chosen for a number of new streets created as part of Dundee's £1bn waterfront regeneration project.

Historical figures and the city's industrial heritage are celebrated in the titles, chosen by a panel after a public consultation.

More than 500 potential names were submitted for consideration.

New open spaces and footpaths are among the sites named after local figures and institutions including Mary Slessor, James Thomson and the Black Watch.

The street names were signed off by councillors on Monday, after a panel including the Lord Provost, city development director Mike Galloway and city archivist Iain Flett picked out the cream of hundreds of public suggestions.

Thomson Avenue will mark the contribution to Dundee of James Thomson, who was city architect between 1906 and 1924. He oversaw the construction of the Kingsway, one of the UK's first city bypasses, and also proposed an early frontrunner of the waterfront masterplan.

Other streets have been named in honour of the area's shipbuilding and industrial heritage.

Earl Grey Place is named after a former dock, built in 1834 and closed 129 years later to make way for the Tay Road Bridge landfall.

Construction of the centrepiece V&A design museum began earlier this month

Patent Slip Way, which runs beneath the bridge ramps, recognises the track and cradle used to transfer vessels from the river to the dock at the Harbour Workshops which stood at the site from 1837.

The public central space to the rear of the Caird Hall will be known as Slessor Gardens, after local missionary Mary Slessor, the space adjacent to the river will be Waterfront Place, and the public space at the city's new railway station will become Discovery Plaza.

The footpath along the river will be named Black Watch Parade, after the military regiment, while the path by the road bridge will be called Whalers Lane, in another nod to shipbuilding.

City development committee convener Will Dawson said: "I was really pleased to see the high level of engagement from people suggesting names which went from the historically significant to the hysterically funny.

"The names fit perfectly with our view of ourselves as a city with a rich industrial and creative past and with a vision and drive to become even more successful in the future."

Construction of the waterfront project's centrepiece, the £80m V&A museum of design, got under way earlier this month.