Plans to redevelop Loch Leven health centre opposed

Kinross community Council has called for controversial plans to redevelop a defunct health centre to be scrapped.

The old Loch Leven complex has lain empty since it closed five years ago to make way for a new facility.

Perth-based GS Brown Construction has tabled a planning application to reuse the 60,000sq ft site, creating a shop, nursery and homes, including 15 flats.

The company said that the two-storey building will be transformed, rather than demolished, as part of the work.

Now the project has come under fire from the community council.

In a formal objection to Perth and Kinross Council, a spokesperson said the main complaint was over the proposed block of flats, adding: “Our concerns are that the height of this three-storey building will be scenically out of context with the surrounding domestic buildings in the area.”

She said that plans for retails units also went against council policy but there were no complaints about the proposed nursery.

The scheme has also been opposed by Kinross-shire Civic Trust.