A fresh row has erupted over plans to expand a Kinross-shire Travellers camp.
Families living at the remote Crook Moss site have been warned they could have planning permission revoked, after failing to comply with a series of council demands.
Now, the site’s new occupants have lodged a retrospective planning application for three new pitches, bringing the total number on the site to eight.
Peter Brown, who lives with his extended family at Crook Moss, wants to get authorisation for the conversion of an old paddock area.
In a statement to Perth and Kinross Council planners, a spokesman for the family said: “The applicant recognises the seriousness of the current planning position however, he and his family require accommodation in this area, (with) which he has had long associations.
“It is in the applicant’s best interest to comply with any planning permission which the planning authority are minded to grant and to work hard to achieve all the necessary infrastructure on site, to ensure the needs of the family are met.”
But the new plan faces a backlash from locals. Fossoway and District Community Council has written to planning officers, urging them to reject the plan.
The group’s Trudy Duffy said: “Although this application is by a different developer, there is no guarantee that should planning permission be granted under conditions these conditions can be met.
“We politely request that no further development shall take place on this site until all the planning conditions which have been set for this site have been fully met.”
Five other residents have objected to Mr Brown’s bid.
Yesterday members of the council’s development management committee were given an update on attempts to connect the site to drainage and mains power. Councillors were told several conditions, issued after the site opened in 2013, had still not been met.
Development quality manager Nick Brian said revoking planning permission is not an appropriate option at this stage. “If we did that, the applicants would be entitled to appeal,” he said. “Then we would have to show that all alternative solutions were attempted before we took this course of action.”
Councillor Michael Barnacle said there had been “great alarm” over the latest planning application.