A company intent on appealing the Court of Session’s approval of plans to build a new Madras College at Pipeland have further defended their reasoning for their ongoing silence on reasons for the move.
The Courier told yesterday that St Andrews Environmental Protection Association Ltd (Stepal) has no information at this point regarding grounds for the appeal of the court’s ‘opinion’ on their judicial review, apart from saying that it was exactly that an opinion and the grounds for appeal will obviously be to contest that opinion.
Stepal said it was “disingenuous” of Fife councillor Bryan Poole to suggest that such information should be available at the present time.
Stepal secretary Sandra Thomson added that their argument will be conveyed to the court and Fife Council’s legal team when that stage of the process is reached.
She said: “Stepal would not be following this course of action were there alternative ways of stopping Councillor Poole’s ‘plonking’ a new school for St Andrews and North East Fife on a hillside out of, and at the wrong side of, St Andrews.
“Councillor Poole knows there are several better sites, despite his repetitions to the contrary.
“A new school is required (and) has been so for a long time and Stepal wishes this as much as everyone else in St Andrews and North East Fife, but will continue to object to the current proposals for Pipeland which are certainly not for a ‘world class school’ for reasons already mentioned and as more than half the budget of £42 million would be needed for infrastructure.”