September 13 2022

The Comrie Development Company with Ironside Farrar has set out a masterplan for the Fife village of Comrie to augment the area with a mix of leisure, retail, residential and open space on the site of a former open cast coal mine.

The team are laying the groundwork for an application in principle before the year is out for a 182.5ha former colliery, with work already underway to remove spoil from the degraded brownfield site to infill nearby lagoons.

In a consultation statement, the applicant wrote: "The site offers the opportunity to deliver a place set within the context of a strong landscape setting that supports connectivity, active travel and the blue-green network.

"Sensitive building design, careful planting and sustainable drainage will help to mitigate any environmental or visual impacts on the surrounding area."

A long-term remediation plan will rehabilitate and decontaminate the site by levelling out the topography to facilitate construction while retaining over 40 acres of established woodland and existing water courses.

2 Comments

#1 Posted by D to the R on 14 Sep 2022 at 13:23 PM

Thank the Lord ... That colliery in Comrie has been a thorn in my side for decades now

#2 Posted by Brian Robertson-Fern on 27 Sep 2022 at 09:14 AM

As a local of Comrie with a grandfather that worked at the pit in the 60s I do welcome the plans. However, I do have concerns though that it is very much separated from the nearby villages of Comrie and Blairhall so is likely to become a new West Fife Village which may alienate it from those existing villages. Robust community benefits and investment in shared services would help mitigate this. I would also like to see a cycle path from the site along the old track bed to Comrie so as to join up with the existing cycle path network

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