Council give OK to house plan in Kinross

Councillors have unanimously granted planning permission in principle for a house to be built on land at Hatchbank Road, west of Gairney Bank, near Kinross

Perth and Kinross Council received 14 letters of representation which included concerns about road safety and a greyhound rescue centre 190 metres from the site.

PKC’s planning and development management committee met to consider the plans on Wednesday, October 20.

An application was submitted to PKC by LJRH Architects in Dundee on behalf of the applicant to erect a house on the site.

A previous application to erect two houses on the Kinross-shire site was refused in March 2021.

Access to the plot is from the existing private access to Baltree Farm north of the site. It was proposed to use an existing shared access to the public road.

Kinross-shire Conservative councillor Mike Barnacle sought assurance from officers planning conditions relating to the height of the house, loss of woodland, drainage and flooding management would be carried forward to the full application.

Planning officer Anne Condliffe confirmed PKC as a planning authority would be looking for these conditions to be complied with in the application going forward.

PKC has conditioned no development starts until“the siting, design and external appearance of the development, the hard and soft landscaping of the site, all means of enclosure, means of access to the site, vehicle parking and turning facilities, levels, drainage and waste management provision”have been approved by itself as planning authority.

Mrs Condliffe also reassured Liberal Democrat Strathmore councillor Lewis Simpson who was concerned about ancient woodland that there was no proposal to develop that site.

The committee was told a woodland management plan will be brought in as part of any subsequent application.

Conservative Strathtay councillor Ian James suggested this extra property here could provide something else for the dogs to bark at the nearby greyhound rescue centre.

Mrs Condliffe said environmental health officers were satisfied with the results of a noise impact assessment. The assessment found residents at the site would not be adversely affected by noise.

Liberal Democrat Perth City South councillor Willie Wilson moved to approve the plans.

It was seconded by Conservative Almond and Earn councillor David Illingworth and unanimously approved by the committee