A councillor has requested South Ayrshire Council’s new planning chief to calm down guidelines that demand ‘conventional farmhouse’ designs in rural areas.
Maybole and North Carrick councillor Iain Campbell, made the plea to just lately appointed head of planning, Craig Iles at a gathering of the Service and Efficiency Panel.
He stated: “Being a member of the Native Overview Physique, I've seen quite a lot of appeals for housing in rural areas.
“There doesn’t appear to be a distinction from planning officers over rural design in comparison with city design. Builders appear to get away with much more variation within the design in city in comparison with rural areas.
“Consequently, we get much more individuals placing in appeals for housing wish to construct in rural areas.
“Rural areas in all probability would look so much higher with some nicer homes than the everyday homes we’ve had over the previous 100 or 150 years.
“In the event you drive round Scotland and elsewhere, you see many, many beautiful trying homes. I feel South Ayrshire suffers from not having the identical flexibility within the planning course of that another counties in Scotland do.
“Questioning, is there flexibility inside SA planning division to look in a different way at rural housing.
Mr Iles agreed that the present coverage favoured the normal farmhouse-style designs.
He continued: “It has all the time been a problem to permit a change in design away from that.
“There are fashionable designs which can be completely applicable. Nevertheless, most city fashion housing introduced ahead in rural setting might be reasonably incongruous.
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“It's one thing I would love to take a look at and has been raised by councillors since I arrived. Maybe we are able to take a look at a barely extra relaxed fashion.
“It is a component that the steerage has been caught to fairly rigidly.
Councillor Campbell replied. “The normal farmhouse was in all probability the eco-friendly home of the the day. However I wish to see us be a bit extra open minded and save the variety of appeals.”
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