Housing could go up in place of old laundry
Developer wants to demolish Fishers for new homes
A construction company wants to tear down a festering former laundry building on the outskirts of Aberfeldy in order to create a new residential development.
It was announced in late December nearly two years ago that Fishers on Home Street was closing as bosses believed there was no point in further investing in the site because of its setting within a residential area as well as restrictions on access to utilities.
The PA reported last year that 19 jobs were eventually lost through the closure, with another 23 transferred out of Aberfeldy on the back of the company’s decision and that the site was being offered for sale through investment management company Jones Lang LaSalle.
Now the Glenrothes-based Lomond Group is seeking planning permission to raze the site’s former main building to make space for 16 new properties after a 14 month-long marketing exercise failed to find a potential buyer who wanted to use the site solely for further industrial/ commercial uses.
A planning statement accompanying the application says: “The logical conclusion of this lengthy marketing exercise clearly demonstrates that no demand exists for the continued use of the site solely for industrial purposes.
“In the absence of any interest in the site for industrial purposes, it is considered to be both reasonable and justifiable that consideration be given to appropriate alternative uses of the site, given that the inevitable consequence of not exploring alternative uses of the site would be to see the site lying vacant and unused.”
Elsewhere, the statement
The former Fishers laundry building in Aberfeldy explains: “The proposed development comprises the erection of 15 new residential units, with a further residential unit being created through the refurbishment and return to residential use of Parkfield House and the creation of five small