Plans for the Madras College building at Pipleand.
Three former Madras College teachers have lodged a legal challenge against Fife Council’s granting of planning permission for a new £40 million single site school at Pipeland, The Courier can reveal.
The objections come from former Madras rector Lindsay Matheson, Miss Mary Jack and Mrs Sandra Thomson named as directors in a newly formed company called the St Andrews Environmental Protection Association Limited.
Fife Council received intimation of a challenge by way of judicial review to the Pipeland decision in a letter from lawyers in Edinburgh.
Pro-Pipeland campaigners fear the challenge could delay construction of a much needed new secondary school for years. But the legal challengers are determined to protect the landscape setting of St Andrews.
Contacted by The Courier, Fife Council’s executive spokesperson for education Bryan Poole confirmed a letter had been received.
He said: “Following further inquiries I am able to say that the company were registered with Companies House on June 4 2014 and the named directors are a retired former head teacher of Madras College and two former teachers at Madras College.”
