Fondfarewell?

Consider your final route to the Crematorium along with family members and friends through a new housing estate opposite Dobbies. Planning application 22/00302/PPPM shows photo views of the site from all directions including Ayr Cemetery for some unknown reason, yet it doesn’t provide one of the views towards the Crematorium.

The route to it from the A70 will be through this new estate where potential houses will be on either side of the road. We have seen the types, heights and compactness off these new estates elsewhere, so visualise this in comparison to what is there at present. Knowing the sensitivities that has already been experienced by SAC surrounding the death of loved ones and the special circumstances, emotions and grief at this time, the last thing people would want to see is to travel through a claustrophobic housing estate to get to the Crematorium. The present outlook is as peaceful as one would hope to get. A ‘B’ road lined with hedge row on both sides passing by a row of cottages with well maintained gardens with spring and summer flowers. I maintain that this ambience is continued and that conditions are imposed that the hedge rows remain and in addition something like flowering cherry trees are planted behind them to help to disconnect the new housing estate from this sensitive route and give some height and privacy when viewed from inside a car as well as to hide the housing high roofs. Call it a buffer corridor encompassing the route and rear of the cottages to help preserve their era and rural setting and also to be part of the Crematorium journey and the last view of the living world you are to depart. The buffer also provides for a continued wildlife habitat, a welcome break in the two sections of housing estate and would go a long way to make this short journey as pleasant as possible and be a positive action for future residents and families at this difficult time.

Andrew Russell, Ayr