Monday’s City Development Committee will consider
a recommendation that the new road at the development of flats on the lock-up
garage site at Churchill Place/East Links Place should be called Sandy Loan.
Suggestions for a name were submitted by the
city archivist, Broughty Ferry Community Council, the agent for the development
and ward councillors. My suggestions were
Sandy Hole, the name given to the community who used to live in the area
currently occupied by the garage lock ups and industrial estate and Cowan
Place/Court in memory of the family who financed the building up of the area
and donated some of their personal fortune to the construction of the
Esplanade.
As
well as being property owners the Cowans were active in civic life; Edward
Cowan was the last town clerk of Broughty Ferry; David Scott Cowan was elected
onto Broughty Ferry Town Commission (the body which preceded the Burgh Council)
and James Cowan was a Dundee town councillor.
