Conservation News: Culross Planning Objection

The designed landscape associated with Culross Abbey House is included on Historic Environment Scotland’s Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes.  SGLH were alerted to a planning application which sought permission to change a disused reservoir structure within the designed landscape into a dwelling house, through external alterations and the addition of a two-storey extension. Upon examining the proposals, we found that although the current reservoir structure is all but invisible from the house, the proposed dwelling, a further two storeys high would be a new dominant and intrusive element in the landscape. We submitted an objection letter to the planning application, which you can read in full