Councillors in Dundee have unveiled a proposed £100,000 investment to improve public open spaces in the city.

The local authority's Environment Committee is being asked to approve a number of projects that would enhance the area, as well as reduce long-term maintenance needs.

The committee will meet on Monday 11 November and will hear proposals for:

• Victoria Park/Hunter Street/Polepark - regenerate existing shrub beds and plantings to improve visual impact and maintenance.
• South Road Park - remove all shrub beds, also landscape into grass old play area.
• Marketgait - regenerate inner ring road soft landscaping, improve visual impact and maintenance.
• Barnhill Housing/Strathmore Street/Nursery Road - refurbish shrub areas and landscape to grass, improving maintenance.
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• Queen Street/Orchar Park/Inchkeith Avenue - regenerate hedging and rose beds, replace with new plantings.
• Castle Green/Windmill Gardens - redesign and plant new flower beds.
• Dudhope Garden steps - refurbish tree and shrub areas to improve visual impact and improve maintenance.
• Dudhope Park/Dudhope Castle - redesign and plant new flower beds.
• Summerfield/Longhaugh/Aberlady/Berwick Drive - regenerate existing shrub beds, also landscape areas into grass improving visual impact and maintenance.
• Hill Street/Stirling Street - remove shrub beds and create new areas of planting.
• Fairmuir Park Car Park - regenerate existing shrub beds and create new shrub areas.
• Caird Park - refurbish shrub and tree areas, also landscape areas to grass improving visual impact.
• Camperdown Park - regenerate areas of soft landscaping and restore bollards improving visual impact and maintenance.
• Baxter Park - redesign and plant new flower beds.

Councillor Vari McDonald, City Council Depute Environment Convener said: "This is a wide-ranging programme that will help improve and enhance open spaces across Dundee.

"I think this is a sensible way to protect our environment in the long term.

"We hope that this proposed programme will be appreciated in communities across the city."

(JP/CD)