NCP, who run the Overgate shopping centre’s Bank Street and Marketgait car parks, collapsing into administration isn’t good news for Dundee.

If those car parks close, it will be a hammer blow to the shopping centre.

When a firm runs into difficulties the administrators keep, or offload as a going concern, the biggest assets on the books.

The city must do all it can to ensure the car parks are among those good assets and therefore stay open.

Because if the main artery is cut, Dundee’s shopping heart will die.

The Overgate needs shoppers who drive in – no normal person will arrive from Inchture, Forfar, Arbroath, or Tayport by bike for a big shopping trip.

Surely the council will now alter the Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) to allow an in/out corridor for all cars to the Overgate’s Bank Street........

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