Plan to demolish buildings

DERELICT buildings in the centre of Cupar could be bulldozed to make way for new housing and retail.

Those promoting the scheme claim demolition of factories behind Crossgate and Bonnygate and redevelopment of the site would enhance the town centre.

The site includes derelict buildings behind Fisher and Donaldson bakery and the Bonnygate gap site, where a dangerous building was demolished 10 years ago.

Kingdom Initiatives, a subsidiary of Kingdom Housing Association, has applied for permission from Fife Council to demolish several structures i n what i s referred to as the Inner Court area.

A planning application is to be submitted for construction of housing and a retail unit.

Kingdom Initiatives’ a g e n t S i n c l a i r Wa t t Architects told the council the significant area of derelict and vacant land “undermines the prosperity of the town”.

It said: “The redevelopment proposals for the Inner Court area of Cupar will make an important contribution to the regeneration of the town centre by i mproving a visually unattractive and derelict site.

“A p p r o v a l for the demolition of the derelict buildings on the site, in advance of the planning application for the main redevelopment, will allow removal of the dangerous buildings t o facilitate important survey and investigation work which, in turn, will result in more detailed and accurate redevelopment proposals.”

A MAIN road leading out of Dundee into Perthshire was closed yesterday following a three-car lunchtime smash.

Police were called to Coupar Angus Road – just outside the northern entrance into Camperdown Country Park – at around 1.15pm.

A white BMW 1 Series, silver Volkswagen Polo and a silver Peugeot 308 were involved in the collision. Two of the vehicles sustained significant damage but no serious injuries were reported.

Officers closed the route between Timex Brae and Birkhill – essentially covering the length of

A SEX offender was snared by police after sending sickening images to an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl.

Benn Cusick used messaging platform Kik to send a series of explicit images to “Maisie Nixon” – a decoy profile used by a police officer – from his Dundee home.

Cusick, of Emmock Woods Crescent, pleaded guilty to attempting to cause a person, believed to be a child aged 13, to look at a sexual image from his home address on March 25 last year.

He admitted sending a quantity of indecent digital images to an undercover police officer in the belief that they were a 13-year-old child.

The 20-year-old was caught as part of a major police operation set up to tackle online child exploitation.

Cusick used the name “Christopher Wayne” to communicate with the account, disguised as a 13-year-old girl living in England.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard