Issued: 16 May 2008
Planners Seek Views Of Brechin Residents
Local people and groups in Brechin will be given the chance to comment on a draft plan to manage the town’s conservation area.
The plan is being drawn up to identify the special interest and changing needs of Brechin and will support the work of the Brechin Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) which began last November and which aims to renovate several properties in the city centre.
Brechin is of particular historic interest due in part to the presence of its cathedral and medieval round tower. The overall street pattern and plot layout of the town centre in the conservation area boundary has not altered much over several hundred years and there is much more evidence of early buildings in Brechin than in any of the other Angus towns. The area of the High Street, Castle Street, Church Street and the streets that lead east and west off the top of the High Street was designated as a Conservation Area in 1972.
Copies of the consultative draft Brechin Conservation Area Management Plan are available for reference at Brechin Library, Brechin THI Office in Panmure Street, Brechin ACCESS Office and at Planning and Transport, County Buildings, Forfar. It can also be viewed and commented on at www.angus.gov.uk/brechincamp.
Comments on the draft plan are invited and should be made either through the public consultation section of the Angus Council internet or in writing and sent either by post or as an email attachment to the following address before 27 June 2008:
Head of Planning and Transport, Angus Council, County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar DD8 3LG or e-mail to planning@angus.gov.uk.
For further information or assistance please contact Kirsty Dear Tel: 01307 473265 Fax: 01307 461895