The proposed development comprises 12 flats spread over three levels with associated car parking and amenity space provision.  Located on the edge of Troon town centre, the site covers an area of approximately 0.1 hectares (0.247 acres). Two dwellings currently occupy the site, and are proposed to be demolished as part of the site’s overall redevelopment.

The key features of the concept are:
• Providing high quality outdoor amenity space for residents;
• Push the building back from the pavement edge to visually widen the street and to provide resident parking;
• Provide access for all residents to a mixture of private and communal outdoor space to the rear;
• Design a building that is in scale with its surroundings;
• Structured planting to the south western boundary facing towards the entrance on to Union Street softens the elevation and improve the nature of the development and its surroundings.

Services Provided
• Planning statement
• Design statement and indicative layout drawing
• Planning application

Achievements
DPP submitted an outline planning application to South Ayrshire Council seeking consent for the scheme. The application pack included planning and design statements covering the key points of the development and its planning merits.

DPP advised that the development should comprise one block of flats, designed to a high standard, which would be in keeping with the scale and density of existing surrounding buildings. The existing site is dilapidated and in need of regeneration, so the housing will provide much needed high quality but low cost accommodation in a central and accessible location.