Stirling looks south as Durieshill development leaves the drawing board
January 16 2025
Housebuilders Barratt Redrow and Springfield Properties, the latter working with 191 Architecture, have come forward with plans for 543 homes and 201 homes respectively at Durieshill.
Stirling Council has been asked to approve the phase 1 tranche of housing on arable land close to the M9 motorway as the core of an eventual 'linear village' to be built in phases over the coming 30 years.
Centred on a planned community campus the development adheres to a masterplan created by McCreadie Design in collaboration with the council and includes a 'high line' active travel route.
Earmarked for land around the Bannockburn Interchange at Plean, the homes form part of a huge and long-delayed 3,042-home expansion of the city.
The larger Barratt component of the build will adjoin this site with a mix of terraced, detached and semi-detached properties of up to five bedrooms.
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So funny to see such a massive out of town car bound development being greenlighted while any kind of car use is being destroyed in the inner cities before the alternatives have been put in place.
Donut cities here we come.
McCreadie Design -- are they in hiding?
Struggling to find their website on Bing.
Shy designer -- contradiction ?!?
Like something out of the Arabian Desert as in NEOM.
Linear City -- bit trendy for Stirling.
There's already a vast swathe of houses being built in a arc to the north east of the interchange.
Who's going to buy them?
Design / layout is even worse than I thought.
I thought the artist's impression was for the 750 houses of the detailed planning application rather the full 3K unit / 30 year plan.
Horrible expansion plan for the town -- next stop Larbert. Surely Stirling could expand in other directions to produce a more natural layout?
Stirling will soon look like a map of Shetland in miniature.
Finally I hope the original land owners are being chased for the capital gains tax?
