Residents of Dundee are being asked to help decide how to spend more than £1m of council cash.

Dundee Decides will see citizens from every community helping to direct how the city council spends the £1.2m Community Infrastructure fund.

The money will be used for physical projects including improvements to play areas, introducing pedestrian crossings, pavements, lighting and planting.

The consultation launched on Monday and residents will be able to vote for their favourite project until March 23.

Dundee City Council leader John Alexander said: "Across Scotland, a lot of funding has already been invested in getting citizens involved in setting spending priorities and this is a really exciting opportunity for Dundonians to have their say.

"We are the first council in the country to allocate a proportion of our mainstream budget to this participatory process and I am sure that the people of Dundee will get behind it and tell us where they think we should be spending their money.

"The process is as easy to use, robust and fair as we could make it, and by March when we announce the results I'm sure it will have caught the imagination of people in every one of communities."