Councillors will be asked to reject plans for a three-star hotel, care home and retirement village in Alyth next month.
The proposal is the latest twist in the tale for Glenisla Golf Club that goes back to 2010 when the ambitious project gained outline planning consent from the local authority.
Perth and Kinross Council agreed to approve that plan despite being told to refuse it, and based their decision on the “potential” economic benefits which the development would bring to the area.
However, as this proposal was considered to be a significant departure from the development plan, the application was referred to the Scottish Government who subsequently indicated they did not wish to ‘call in’ the application and allowed the council to issue an approval decision.
As a result, another planning application was approved by the council in August 2013, and also allowed the applicant a longer time to submit their application.
However, Nick Brian, development quality manager with Perth and Kinross Council, will advise councillors to knock back this latest plan when they next meet.
“To this end, the application in its current form brings with it little in the way of sustainable economic benefit to the local area with the exception of opportunities for local trades and tradesman to become involved in the construction phase,” he said in his report.
“I consider the proposal unacceptable and not in accordance with the justification of the original approval.”
He also stated that he feels information supplied by the applicant concerning traffic movements and modes of travel does not quantify as an acceptable transport assessment.
The matter will be discussed at a meeting of Perth and Kinross Council’s development management committee on January 14.
In a report on the matter, Mr Brian said that, in his view, the “level of information” submitted by the applicant on land use, design principles and the implementation and delivery of subsequent phases could not be described as an “effective masterplan”.
He states: “What has been submitted is essentially a basic and simplistic development strategy for the site which only sets out an extremely general framework for differing land use across the site, without actually offering any specific details relating to the intended design principles, the urban form of the development or a robust timeline for delivery of the development.”