{"id":338566,"date":"2025-08-12T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338566\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:41:11","slug":"more-barrhead-trees-to-be-chopped-down-despite-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338566\/","title":{"rendered":"More Barrhead trees to be chopped down despite opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Briar Homes was granted permission to build on land around C-listed Lyoncross House, off Aurs Road, last year, despite council officials recommending the scheme was rejected.\n<\/p>\n

\n The firm then asked for approval to chop down 16 additional trees and retain 10 which were set to be removed in order to meet the drainage requirements of Scottish Water.\n<\/p>\n

\n Planners recommended the proposal was approved but over 40 residents had objected \u2013\u00a0and Cllr Annette Ireland, an independent, moved that it was rejected.\n<\/p>\n

\n However, Cllr Paul Edlin, Conservative, moved that permission to cut down the trees was granted. There were two votes for each proposal and the application was approved on the casting vote of Cllr Andrew Morrison, Conservative, who was chairing the planning meeting.\n<\/p>\n

\n READ MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0Developer behind Barrhead homes plans to cut down more trees<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Approval for the homes was given in March last year despite officials having concerns over the lack of affordable housing, the impact on Dams to Darnley Country Park and the loss of \u201cestablished\u201d trees.\n<\/p>\n

\n They also said the proposal was \u201cnot anticipated or planned for\u201d within a Barrhead South masterplan, with homes already under construction or approved fulfilling \u201can allocated capacity\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Cllr Ireland, who didn\u2019t attend the original meeting where permission for the homes was granted due to ill health, said she was \u201creally shocked\u201d it had passed.\n<\/p>\n

\n She said there were \u201creally good solid planning reasons\u201d for it to be refused as well as a \u201cplea from education [department] about there not being enough spaces in the local primary school\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think it\u2019s important given where we are now that we actually now protect the environment and the amenity of what is left after this permission was granted,\u201d she added.\n<\/p>\n

\n READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>Firm reveals plans to start building controversial new development<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n A council official said it had been \u201cwithin the gift\u201d of the planning committee to go against the recommendation to refuse.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhat the developer is seeking to do here is to implement the planning permission that has been granted to them,\u201d she said. \u201cIn their negotiations with Scottish Water, they were unable to include the attenuation tank in the original location.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n The committee heard how the \u201cdrainage plan approved by Scottish Water requires the provision of underground attenuation tanks\u201d \u2013\u00a0which collect excess water.\n<\/p>\n

\n These tanks can \u201conly be provided in the west of the site at the lower end of the access road\u201d, an official said, and this \u201cnecessitates the removal of the 16 trees that are to be felled if the section 42 application is granted\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Councillors were told it was the \u201conly solution they could find that Scottish Water would accept\u201d and the developers had then tried to \u201cidentify any other trees that they previously had permission to remove to try and retain those in order to create a balance\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Briar Homes was granted permission to build on land around C-listed Lyoncross House, off Aurs Road, last year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016085184874685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}