Planning & Development (Scotland), acting on behalf of Mactaggart & Mickel, obtained planning permission on 1st March 2006 for 40 detached houses, on a greenfield site at Cochno Road, Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire. The site extends to 3.6Ha (9 acres).The site was previously in the statutory greenbelt and acting on behalf of Mactaggart & Mickel at the Clydebank Local Plan Inquiry, the removal of the site's green belt status was secured and the site was thereafter identified as a housing proposal.

Innumerable developers have sought to remove this site from the greenbelt for over a 25 year period and have failed, as they have been unable to establish a quantitative deficiency in the housing land supply for the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area. Therefore a qualitative argument was advanced at the Local Plan Inquiry, on the basis that there required to be more than solely brownfield development land available to developers. This qualitative argument convinced the Scottish Executive Local Plan Reporter to release the site from the greenbelt and identify, as the preferred site in the town, a greenfield housing release site at Cochno Road for Mactaggart & Mickel.

A planning application was lodged last summer and received planning permission on 1st March 2006. It comprises individually designed houses for this site that take account of the gradient across the site, with six different houses types from the Mactaggart & Mickel 'Rural Range', which are appropriate for a greenfield site at the edge of the urban limit. The eastern extent of the site will comprise woodland with an informal woodland pathway located within the proposed woodland. There will be tree and hedge planting around the site boundary and throughout the site between house plots. The materials of the different house types comprise of base course reconstituted stone, grey roof tiles and dry dash buff coloured rendered finishes to the properties and garages. These are materials that reflect a quality product and a well designed housing layout.

• Identifying the means to release the site from the

statutory greenbelt

• Successfully advancing this argument at the Local Plan

Inquiry

• Input to design and layout of site

•Submit detailed planning application and secure

planning permission

Contact: Planning & Development Consultancy, 39 George Street, Edinburgh Tel 0131-240-7500

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