Community councillors have been told to expect a second planning application to build housing on the site of a former bowling club in Scone to come forward soon.
Members of Scone and District Community Council had hoped the local authority’s recent rejection of an application to build four houses on the site of the former Scone Bowling Club might persuade the landowner to consider a different use of the site instead.
The group had been mulling over the idea of attempting a community buyout so the land beside Balformo Road could be used by locals for other purposes apart from further development in the village.
However community councillor Donald McKerracher said at the group’s most recent meeting the landowner had been in touch to say a developer intends to submit a second application to Perth and Kinross Council seeking permission to build houses on the site soon.
PKC refused the last application put forward by a Mr Joe Bryce as it judged one of the proposed properties had “insufficient useable amenity ground”.
Planning officer Sean Panton said in his report of handling: “The useable garden ground therefore falls well below the recommended 25 per cent building to plot ratio as recommended within the council’s placemaking supplementary guidance.
“This would therefore constitute the overdevelopment of the site and would be contrary to the council’s placemaking policies.”
