The new V&A museum at Dundee will be moved further away from the water to ensure the development keeps within budget.

This is despite one of the aims of the new building being "strengthening the connection between the river and the city centre"

The V&A will now be built 100 metres inland from its original site in the River Tay.

This change is seen as necessary to ensure the £45m development is on time and within budget.

The news was reported in the Herald.

Architect Kengo Kuma has signed off on the changes on a recent visit to Edinburgh.

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The revised plan will now be to use ornamental pools to preserve the original concept. It will be submitted to Dundee City Council for planning permission shortly.

Dundee's director of city development Mike Galloway told the Herald: "We are determined to bring this in on time and on budget.

"We were noticing that the risks associated with building out in the river were continually showing as red. We tried to find ways of mitigating it, but there was still a cost risk, so we asked the design team to look at how moving building closer to land would affect that.

"They found that moving the building 80%-90% on land, with the 'prow' sticking out over the water, brings that risk right down."

The original plan was to build the V&A at a location off the river bank due to the expectation that securing the right to demolish the Olympia swimming pool would delay the project.

But Dundee Council has now obtained an agreement to allow for early demolition of the pool as part of the city’s waterfront renewal scheme.

(IT)