Publication - FOI/EIR release

Dundee FC Camperdown stadium planning application: EIR release

Published: 27 April 2026
Topic: Public sector, Transport
FOI reference: FOI/202600507275
Date received: 18 February 2026
Date responded: 18 March 2026

Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.

Information requested

" Copies of all correspondence (emails, letters, minutes of meetings, minutes of calls and/or otherwise) sent from Transport Scotland to representatives of Dark Blue Property Holdings Limited and Dundee FC regarding the Camperdown stadium planning in principle application.

For this request I am interested in the period between April 2025 and February 2026 (to date)"

Response

As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.

This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

Response to your request

Please see Annexes A - F to this response for a copy of all correspondence sent from Transport Scotland to the representatives of Dark Blue Holdings Limited and Dundee FC regarding the Camperdown Stadium planning in principle application. This covers the period 1 April 2025 to 18 February 2026.

Annex A - Camperdown Stadium Notes of Meeting 8 July 2025.

Annex B - Emails from Transport Scotland to representatives of Dark Blue Holdings Limited and Dundee FC.

Annex C - Minutes of Meeting 11 November 2025.

Annex D - Transport Scotland response to Transport Assessment Addendum - Issued as an attachment to the outgoing email dated Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 10:51 AM, as referenced in Annex B.

Annex E - Transport Scotland response to ‘Trip Generation and Share Refinements’ - Issued as an attachment to the outgoing email dated Friday 12 December 2025 at 4:00 PM, as referenced in Annex B.

Annex F - Census Data - Issued as an attachment to the outgoing email dated Friday 19 December 2025 at 3:32 PM, as referenced in Annex B.

An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exception is not subject to the 'public interest test', so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception.

About FOI

The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at https://www.gov.scot/foi-responses.