Permission given for a 200-house development near Glasgow

The planned 206 properties are part of a mixed use development, including residential, community facilities, open space, distributor road, primary school and neighbourhood retail centre at Newton Farm.

Extending to approximately 7.7 hectares, the site is located within the settlement boundary as identified in the adopted South Lanarkshire Local Development Plan 2.

The site is relatively flat, comprising two main sections that would be linked. 

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It is bound to the north by a green buffer zone, to the west by a SUDs pond, and to the south and east by other housing developments. 

This site is part of the CGA development and will be the last area to be developed.

All other parts of the site are at different stages of development.

Planning permission, approved in 2015, was submitted to vary a number of the planning conditions approved. 

Councillors at Tuesday’s planning committee agreed to discharge a final condition of planning permission to facilitate the erection of 206 residential dwellings and associated works on the last POD at the Newton CGA. 

This condition specifies that all relevant matters such as layout, siting, design, boundary treatments, landscaping, drainage etc are submitted to and approved by the planning authority.