Developer returns with reduced homes bid for Cambusbarron

Barratt Homes West Scotland has returned with a revised proposal for a new housing estate in Cambusbarron with almost a third fewer homes than its previous application.The developer lost its bid to overturn Stirling Council’s refusal of the 265-home plan for the Seven Sisters Field development off Polmaise Road in July last year.Councillors had unanimously rejected the application on grounds including overdevelopment. Among 230 objections from locals, campaigners had argued that the community’s infrastructure, including the school, roads and health services, wouldn’t be able to cope with a population increase even with significant investment.Barratt’s appeal to the Scottish Government’s planning appeals division (DPEA), however, was mainly refused because of the density of the proposed housing development, but the principle of development on the site was established in an earlier process, leaving the potential for fresh plans, or a rejigged proposal, to come forward in future.Now the developer, via BDW Trading Ltd, has lodged a new ‘Matters Specified in Conditions’ application to Stirling Council planners.It hopes to persuade the planning authority that a reduction in the number of homes planned for the site to 194 will address previously raised issues.