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20-year-old Perthshire housing proposals submitted

Source: http://www.scottishconstructionnow.com

Developers are ready to press ahead with the first phase of a 1,500-home project in Oudenarde near Perth, 20 years on from when it was first mooted.Perthshire developer GS Brown Construction has teamed up with Taylor Wimpey to submit an initial planning application for 159 two, three and four bedroom homes on the former Bridge of Earn Hospital site.GS Brown chairman Geoff Brown, hailed the milestone on the project and added that negotiations to create a rail halt on the Perth-Edinburgh line aimed at commuters are under way.Hillcrest Housing Association has already built 109 affordable houses at Oudenarde and now the first phase of private sector housing will get under way this year.