Extension granted for Kintore East housing scheme
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A CONSORTIUM of house builders has been given a five year extension to start work on a major housing development at Kintore.
The Kintore East housing estate is the work of Barratts, Kirkwood Homes and Malcolm Allan Housebuilder and has an extensive planning history stretching back to 2013, yet no work has commenced on any part of it to date.
The trio of builders sought permission from the council to revisit conditions of the 2013 application, removing redundant elements which have been completed or are no longer required while also splitting the site into three separate elements instead of one overall site.
Objections have been raised to this by the community council as this wass not what was promised in the masterplan and there is no neighbourhood centre on the estate.
The consortium initially asked for ten additional years to submit their plans but following discussuion this was reduced to seven years.
However at Tuesday’s meeting of the Garioch area committee, councillor Glen Reid argued that this was still to long.
He outlined the development at Crichie which was of larger scale, with over 700 homes, was on a more complicated landscape site and also required the construction of a grade separated junction on the A96, and yet it was tied to a five year permission scale.
He commented: “This is relatively straight forward.
“Crichie has a five year limit on it and is much more complex due to the grade separated junction.
“I would view that five years max is more acceptable.”
His view were supported by fellow councillors including Jim Gifford who backed the motion.
To stop the continued land banking of the site after nine years with no development, a motion was made to accept the changes but reduce the time scale.
