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Thorntonhall farm earmarked for new homes

September 3 2018

Thorntonhall farm earmarked for new homes

EMA Architects have signaled their intent to build five new homes at Cartside Farm in Thorntonhall with submission of a planning application.

The contemporary properties will be faced in stone and zinc and include their own orchard and open space and surrounded by existing farmland.

In a statement the practice wrote: “This proposal represents a great opportunity to redevelop a redundant agricultural site. The design, which includes five bespoke new family homes, considers the scale, form and character of the former farm buildings and compliments the rural character of the area.

“A considered approach to landscape will also embed the new development into the existing setting – new native planting and an orchard will contain the development and will ensure that the proposal sits comfortably within the surrounding countryside from the outset.”

A new access road will also be built to service the new properties.

Homes will echo the traditional forms of the existing farmhouse
Homes will echo the traditional forms of the existing farmhouse
The five homes will be clustered around a shared orchard
The five homes will be clustered around a shared orchard

4 Comments

Trombe Wall
#1 Posted by Trombe Wall on 5 Sep 2018 at 09:29 AM
There is a nice scale to this development.
99 percent
#2 Posted by 99 percent on 1 Jan 2019 at 18:15 PM
Redundant? Hardly. Presenting the site as unwanted for agriculture is a sham. This proposal is merely an income maximising exercise, along with hundreds of others like it sadly. The occupation of farming has been marginalised to make it unsustainable for younger generations to continue to farm the land their forebears have worked often for centuries. This particular prime agricultural land would be snapped up for agricultural use, but marketing it for this type of multi-million pound development makes it unaffordable for anything else. These sites become underused due to planning policy supporting land banking in the greenbelt for residential development. The planning department at ERC is unfortunately allowing this pocket of several hundreds of acres of agricultural greenbelt to be transformed into an exclusive extension of Thorntonhall. Not for the many but for the few.
C. Ladds
#3 Posted by C. Ladds on 16 Dec 2024 at 03:01 AM
Very unfortunately, and quite objectively, the housing development that has been realised on the site differs significantly from the mock-ups, and does not respect the scale, character, or form of the rural area it is in, or the former buildings. Non-local materials in non complimentary colours have been used, and the development stands out as a jarring blot in the landscape. Very few seem to have anything nice to say about it. Having studied the historic environment, built heritage, and history of art to an advanced level, it is my evaluation that these houses should never have been passed by planning. They are an eyesore on what was a tranquil and unspoiled area of Improvement era countryside and buildings.
Ghetto King
#4 Posted by Ghetto King on 16 Dec 2024 at 09:55 AM
Little by little , piece by piece.
There is no such thing anymore as the green belt.
Take a look at the sprawl that is East Kilbride.
All the individual developments hemmed in by the GSO and M77 on that eastern side will soon form one large conurbation with some green parts left as 'country parks'. Reminders of what was lost because developers find it easy to build on virgin land especially with cooperative councils.
How this happens is a different conversation of which I am sure there will be numerous and opposing views.

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