CONNEL resident Ann Colthart, her MP and MSP are all urging the Scottish Government to overturn Argyll and Bute Council’s decision to ‘ride roughshod over its own planning regulations’ when it allowed social housing, built too close to her home due to a planning blunder, to stand, writes Sandy Neil.
Ann Coltart and Argyll MP Brendan O’Hara.
Following a a public hearing on November 3, councillors on the Planning, Protective Services and Licensing Committee voted five to four to mitigate the shortfall and privacy issues by frosting and fixing the ground floor windows at the rear, moving the top-floor windows to the gable end, and erecting a one-metre high wall and leylandii hedge.