Builder bought The Orchard
Staff at an Uddingston PR and communications firm donated Easter eggs to a Lanarkshire charity.
Beattie staff gifted the chocolate treats to Les Hoey’s Dreammaker Foundation, which helps children with life-threatening illnesses.
The company’s director for Scotland, Joanne Spence, said: “Many of the children the foundation helps will be spending the Easter season in hospital so we wanted to support the charity’s efforts to make the occasion as special as possible for the youngsters and their loved ones.”
The Dreammaker Foundation became a registered charity in 2014. For more information go to www. leshoeymbedreammakerfoundation.org.
A development company has bought land in Bothwell where up to 20 mature trees were removed recently, it has emerged.
A Registers of Scotland search shows that Future Development Properties Limited, whose registered office is given as Beechtree Park Homes, Denny, Stirlingshire, bought land behind Croftbank Crescent, which lies within and outside the Bothwell Conservation Area, for £35,000.
The title was registered on May 6, 2015.
Residents in the village’s Croftbank Crescent reacted with anger last month after trees and vegetation in an area behind their homes known as The Orchard were removed using earth-moving machinery and chain saws over a number of weeks. They also pointed out that work to cut back vegetation had been going on since last year.
Some Croftbank Crescent residents last week said they would be unhappy if the area behind their homes was developed.
One told the Advertiser: “I’d be very disappointed if they built houses or flats. They would look into our homes. There would be a loss of privacy.
“Also I work night shifts and I’d be disturbed by the sound of transport and construction during any building there during daytime.”
Another resident commented: “It doesn’t surprise me to be honest. Every open piece of ground in Bothwell these days seems to be earmarked for a housing development.”
South Lanarkshire Council pointed out last month that no planning consent for the trees’ removal was necessary as the area where the trees had been felled was not part of the conservation area.
The local authority also pointed out that “no planning application has been submitted to date” for the development of area behind the Croftbank Crescent homes.
The land register entry also shows that two ash trees within the conservation area zone, behind 16 to 18 Hamilton Road, are covered by South Lanarkshire Council tree preservation orders. These trees are still standing.
Companies House lists Melvyn Alan Smith as the director of Future Development Properties.
When the Advertiser called Beechtree Park Homes, a caravan park, this week a woman who answered the phone identified herself as Melvyn Smith’s wife but stated she had no knowledge of Future Development Properties or the Bothwell site. The Advertiser has been unable to contact Mr Smith for comment.