Councillors to reconsider land development application
Councillors will next week review a decision to refuse long-running plans to build homes on a woodland in Peebles town centre.
It is now more than a decade since Granton Homes bought the 18th century Kingsmeadows House and estate.
The B-listed property was converted into 12 apartments and the company was granted permission for a separate block of 10 flats to be built at the rear of the house.
But further plans for felling ancient trees on the historic 18-acre estate on the banks of the River Tweed were refused, and several appeals have also been turned down.
Granton renewed their outline permission for the apartment block in 2019 but the latest attempt for developing the land has attracted more than one hundred objections from locals, as well as politicians and civic groups.
When members of Scottish Borders Council’s Local Review Body meet on Monday, February 23, they will be asked to reconsider the application.
Planning officers have indicated that they cannot support the application.
A email within the application documents, from council planner Ranald Dods to a representative of the developer, states: “Having discussed this case further internally, we are unable to make a positive recommendation on this application.”