DEVELOPERS HOPE to have revised plans for a Perthshire golfing complex accepted on Wednesday.

Councillors will consider a new outline scheme for Strathmore Golf Centre, which is a pared-down version of the one rejected earlier in the year.

Loyal Leisure Ltd, which bought the Alyth complex two years ago, has altered its plan for the complex after a housing element was knocked back in January.

Where that application included an 80-home scheme to fund the rest of the plans, this one has provision for only 34 chalets and is deemed suitable by council planners.

The chalets are a key part of the plans which will see the relocation of the driving range, a club house with a larger reception area, pro shop, bar and meeting rooms.

A leisure complex including a gymnasium will be linked to a 30-bed lodge with conference facilities and restaurant.

The chalets would be in three clusters, with the first built as part of phase one of the project.

A further 20 to 30 jobs are anticipated to be created, as well as employment already provided at Strathmore.

The last time the scheme came before the council’s development control committee councillors praised the leisure aspects but could not allow the larger-scale housing—which would have been built with Servite Housing Association.

The scale of housing would have been contrary to local plans and policies and the roads network would not have been able to cope with the additional traffic, the committee ruled.

The latter aspect has provoked criticism, with some letters of objection referring to it.

While not objecting, Alyth Community Council also stated its concerns on the matter.

But a report to the committee which will consider the proposal says the new vision should be treated differently.

It says, “The main concern raised by residents remains the adequacy of the existing road network to cater with additional development irrespective of the removal of the housing for the development.

“However, the removal of the housing does make a dramatic difference to anticipated traffic flows as it will be spread out over the day rather than being concentrated into peak times and as such is considered acceptable by our roads [department] colleagues.”

Recommending approval, it adds, “At the time of the previous application it was quite clear that the only obstacle was the inclusion of a large housing development intended to finance the leisure expansion and that if removed the committee would not have had a problem with the leisure elements alone.

“I am now satisfied that the outline proposals, which are now presented as self- financing and purely of a leisure nature, can be fully supported,” the report concludes.