East Renfrewshire residents are being urged to air their views on a new Local Development Plan for the area.
Formal consultation on the proposed plan, known as LDP3, is now open and will run until 22nd December.
It will outline a strategy to deliver growth and new development for the entire council area over the next decade and beyond.
The proposed LDP3 sets out how East Renfrewshire could grow between 2027 and 2037, making sure new development is supported by the infrastructure and services people need, including transport, education, healthcare, community facilities, open spaces and walking and cycling connections.
The consultation is an opportunity for residents, businesses, community groups, landowners and other interested parties to tell the local authority what they think about the proposed plan.
Residents of Scotland’s first conservation village have voiced their concerns over plans to build hundreds of new houses on East Renfrewshire’s greenbelt.
Over 300 Eaglesham locals turned out to voice their opposition to the controversial plans at a meeting in the Eglinton Arms last week and a petition garnered 1200 signatures in just five days.
If approved as many as 660 homes could be built across three sites spanning nearly 90 hectares of Eaglesham green fields - suggesting the rural village could take up to a third of the 1955 houses planned for the entire constituency.
The village was identified as a ‘growth area’ that could accommodate “a significant proportion of planned housing growth” for East Renfrewshire over the next decade. Other growth areas identified for the LDP3 are Busby, Clarkston and Barrhead where development will be focused.
Issues raised included the area becoming “sub-urban rather than sub-rural,” road safety and the lack of appropriate traffic assessment, the lack of infrastructure and services in place, the impact on the village primary, and the impact on the doctors’ surgery.
Visit the proposed LDP3 consultation portal and have your say here.