Plans to transform Perthshire farm buildings are in limbo.
Final week councillors granted listed constructing consent for works to be carried out on nineteenth century steading buildings.
However councillors refused the detailed plans for the event which might have seen the erection of extra communal outbuildings, two new Eco homes - along with the conversion of the unique steading into six houses - and a photo voltaic array.
This was regardless of the developer saying their plans for the farm steading would end in a £300,000 loss if the extra two houses didn't go forward.
Architect Jon Frullani submitted plans to Perth and Kinross Council - on behalf of the applicant Peter Thomson - for a growth on a two-hectare web site at Kinvaid Farm, Moneydie about two miles west of Luncarty.
The agricultural buildings and farmhouse sit round a central courtyard.
PKC's Planning and Placemaking Committee scrutinised the plans for eight homes when it met on July 6.
The plans proposed to transform the C-listed horse mill and north vary into two houses.
The remaining steading buildings and farmhouse could be taken down and reconstructed to type 4 houses.
An additional two model new single-storey buildings had been proposed on the northern a part of the positioning - constructed with pure stone partitions and aluminium clad timber home windows.
The plans additionally included communal and ancillary outbuildings, the set up of photo voltaic arrays, and the formation of an entry highway and parking space.
The plans - which officers advisable for approval - acquired 14 letters of objection and eight in help.
Luncarty and Redgorton Neighborhood Council "welcomed" the "derelict" farmhouse and steading being transformed into six houses however thought-about the extra buildings and photo voltaic array as "overdevelopment and unreasonable".
The group council's chairman George Black - a retired police officer - addressed the committee final week and expressed highway security issues in regards to the "slender winding highway". He stated it was typically used as a rat run and Sat Nav directed drivers onto this highway when there was an accident on the A9.
Each he and fellow objector Stewart Carracher stated they weren't in opposition to the steading itself being developed however the extent of the event.
Mr Carracher stated: "Everybody I've spoken to would welcome some type of exercise there however the growth must be proportionate.
"It isn't like for like. It is the sprawl of the positioning. The eco homes are usually not consistent with the standard steading."
Architect Jon Frullani advised the committee: "From day one we've got been working with Perth and Kinross Council and the statutory consultees.
"What we requested to supply, we've got supplied."
He stated the farm steading growth was not viable with out the extra growth and would end in a £300,000 loss.
The Dundee-based architect stated: "In an idealistic world it might be good to develop it as it's however the buildings are knackered. It isn't viable.
"They don't seem to be match for human not to mention animal occupation."
He stated they'd engaged with Perth and Kinross Council's roads division which had no objections.
Conservative councillor David Illingworth moved to approve the plans.
He stated: "It is a small growth inside a rural space and meets the specified want for extra homes."
This was seconded by Conservative councillor Hugh Anderson.
Native Strathtay Conservative councillor Ian James put ahead an modification to refuse the plans as a result of it was "too giant a growth and on the grounds of visitors security".
He pointed to a earlier software for an eco campsite on the web site being refused after which dropping a Scottish Authorities attraction "for that very motive".
PKC's authorized supervisor Geoff Hogg questioned how competent this was when PKC's planning transportation workforce had not objected to this software.
SNP councillor Eric Drysdale seconded for refusal citing the size of the event.
Councillors voted to refuse the plans by seven votes to 6.
Councillors did nonetheless unanimously vote to grant constructing consent for works to be carried out on the listed steading buildings.