Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Plans for luxury home
Angus Council has received a planning application to convert Panbride House, in Carnoustie, into three separate properties.
The application was submitted by Carnoustie and District councillor Brian Boyd and Matthew Sothern, a lecturer at the University of St Andrews.
The pair are partners in Kinloch Properties Ltd, a letting firm based in Carnoustie.
The applicants plan to divide the mansion into two apartments.
In addition, a cottage once used as a treatment room alongside the onetime gym facility at the house would be converted i nto a t wo-bedroom dwelling.
An existing gate lodge at the entrance to the site would also be altered to increase the number of bedrooms.
Residents would be able to make use process of decline which would inevitably occur as a result of the various properties within the site not being occupied has been arrested and that these properties will once again be made habitable and brought back into use.”
He added that the community council hoped any works would be in keeping with the building’s character.
Panbride House was once owned by Dundee athlete Liz McColgan.
However, the mansion was put on the market in 2013 after Ms McColgan’s health club business went into liquidation and became a frequent target for teenage vandals.
The estate hit the headlines early last year when a gang of thieves used it as their base following the theft of an ATM from a Co-op store in Carnoustie.
The gang of seven, who were jailed for a total of 92 years in 2016, had used the abandoned estate as a hiding place after the raid.
Neither Mr Boyd nor Mr Sothern could be reached for comment.
A LUXURY mansion once owned by Liz McColgan and later used as a hideout by a gang of ATM thieves could soon be occupied again.