Bid by Aviemore developer to build 165 homes at Inshes is met with objections
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An Aviemore-based developer has launched a bid to develop 165 homes on land at Inshes in Inverness but the plan has met with an objection by the local community council.
Davall Developments – owned by David Cameron and Allan Munro – has submitted a planning in principle application that is due to be considered by Highland Council’s south planning committee next week when members will be asked to agree to the proposal.
The residential development of 165 houses and associated infrastructure contains 'indicative proposals for mostly detached and some semi-detached houses' but that has not been finalised.
The 9.8 hectare site is located south of West Park Avenue and continues towards Cypress Place but only about half that area is zoned for house building, the rest is undesignated.
The suggested site layout plan is for two vehicular and foot/cycle path access points at Dell of Inshes Road and Copperwood Drive as well as footpath provision, landscaping, amenity areas, a wildlife corridor, and a surface water drainage basin.
And because Inshes Primary, Milton of Leys Primary and Millburn Academy are all hovering between 90 per cent and 100 per cent capacity meaning a higher rate of developer contributions are required – kicking it up to £1.7 million.
But the proposal was not welcomed locally with Inshes and Milton Community Council’s objection on eight different points including flood risk, school capacity concerns, traffic, the impact on ecology and arable land and the “commercial nature of the development.”
The community council stated: “1) the Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan (IMFLDP) allocation IN46 Wester Inshes Farm (South) does not fully cover the whole of the application site; 2) Inverness has met its housing need; 3) development of the site has potential to cause flooding downhill; 4) School capacity concerns; 5) impacts from the traffic generated by the development on the wider road network; 6) impacts on ecological interests; 7) impact on arable land; 8) lack of public services in the wider area; 9) the commercial nature of the development.”
The planning committee meets on October 4.
