A massive housing and business development aimed at building around 700 homes and a business park has been planned for the western outskirts of Perth.
The John Dewar Lamberkin Trust and Needhill LLP (the applicant) are proposing to submit a planning application to Perth and Kinross Council for a mixed use development comprising residential and employment uses on land at Glasgow Road, Broxden, which includes the site of the failed £40 million Calyx project.
The Calyx would have seen the site transformed into a 61-acre national garden for Scotland.
The Courier understands there are several companies who have expressed an interest in the sprawling site.
In June 2009, a representation on behalf of the John Lamberkin Trust was made to the local authority in respect of Broxden, Perth, and land to the east of the Broxden Park and Ride, Perth.
The proposed development would link the existing park-and-ride at Broxden and the residential properties would be divided into six zones. The plan would see the mixed use take place on land beside the M90, either side of the Aviva building in Perth.
A report drawn up by Yeoman McAllister architects states that it is considered the site could be developed over five years.
”Initial infrastructure assessments have been undertaken and the proposed housing site does not contain any infrastructure constraints which would preclude development,” it states.
”The work undertaken on the development of a masterplan for this site indicates that housing is an appropriate land use in planning terms.
”The site is considered of being developed in a four-year programme with approximately 50 houses being developed per year.”
The report adds: ”Our clients are committed to implementing sustainability as a major driver for their project.
”Given the environmental quality of the site, its location and topography, there is potential for a development which sits sensitively in the landscape, enhances its ecological value and promotes a broader awareness of sustainability amongst the new community of residents and workers to be created.”