Dundee’s high-rise dream turned into a nightmare for this columnist.

My sympathies are entirely with the good tenants in the multistorey blocks featured in Michael Alexander’s article on the remaining Dundee high-rises, whose lives are being made a misery by antisocial tenants, drug dealers and drug users.

I’m long past the stage of coming up with excuses for those whose addictions and antisocial behaviour make life a living hell for decent folk in the multis which still stand in the city.

Michael’s feature reminded me of moving to Bucklemaker Court from Kirkton in 1971 with my mum and dad when I was in fifth year at school.

They’d originally moved out to the schemes like thousands of other Dundonians to escape cramped and barely habitable inner city living conditions, to enjoy fresh air and modern accommodation.

Both were delighted to eventually move back to the Hilltown where they’d been brought up.

I was much less happy to leave my pals and what I regarded as home behind.

‘Slow, steady descent…’

Bucklemaker Court, like so many of the city high-rises, has since been demolished and in fairness in the early days with all round........

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