Housing campaigners have branded figures showing almost 200 children are living in temporary accommodation in Stirling as “disgraceful”.
10.08.2022 - 20:13 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Stirling’s “supervillage” could soon see the first bricks put down on site - almost two decades after it was first discussed.
Plans to create a new 3000-home development at Durieshill between Plean and Bannockburn initially emerged in 2004 when the land was first allocated in the Local Plan.
Since then it has had a lengthy and chequered history. This includes it being backed at a public inquiry by the Scottish Executive in 2006.
But building work to this point has failed to materialise.
Springfield Homes became backers for the site in 2016 and in December 2019 Stirling Council’s planning and regulation panel approved the firm’s application, thought to be one of the most extensive and complex single development proposals seen in Scotland, with 163 conditions attached to the consent.
Now the company has submitted a detailed application - for a small yet significant part of the masterplan.
While it seeks only to build an information and showhome complex, it nevertheless would mark the first tangible sign of what the future will hold for the area.
The complex would accommodate the information centre with two office/meeting rooms, exhibition space and a play area, car parking, plus two showhomes showcase the four-bedroom Balerno and the three-bedroom Cupar design showhomes.
Construction of the supervillage itself is expected to support hundreds of jobs and apprenticeships and support the local economy.
The development includes 3,012 new homes (2,116 houses and 896 flats) and 30 units designed for residential care.
There will be a 25 per cent affordable home provision, with 2,279 market homes and 763 affordable homes.
Springfield had expected to begin work on site by late autumn 2020 with the first homeowners moving in some time in 2022,
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