Developers get OK for 62 homes Site to include former Stonehouse Hospital grounds

More than 60 new houses are to be built in Stonehouse after planning permission was granted by South Lanarkshire Council’s planning committee.

Two associated applications had been submitted by Apsis Homes (Clyde Valley) Ltd for sections of a site lying between the A71 Strathaven Road and the grounds of the former Stonehouse Hospital.

One of the applications is for 26 houses on a 1.17-hectare site and the other for 36 houses on an area amounting to 1.63 hectares.

Both will comprise a mix of threeand four-bedroom detached and semidetached houses, and each application was considered by the committee both on its own merits and as part of the overall development.

The site will be accessed from a new junction off the existing roundabout at the junction of the A71 and, as part of the work, a former railway embankment along the southern part of the site will be filled in, while the design of the development includes sufficient open spaces and areas of landscaping along the embankment and throughout the site to ensure that access is maintained to both formal and informal footpaths in the area.

Chair of the planning committee, Councillor Hugh Dunsmuir, said: “New homes for local people are something I welcome and it is wonderful to see that developers recognise the opportunities South Lanarkshire has to offer.”