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St Andreans can have say in East Sands redesign
ST ANDREANS will soon be able to make their views known on how the East Sands area should be re-developed.
Members of Fife Council's north east Fife area committee this week gave approval to the East Sands Urban Design Framework document.
The blueprint describes and illustrates how planning and design policies and principles should be implemented in the East Sands/Harbour area.
The committee also approved an extension to the southern boundary of the Framework by 15 hectares.
The area will now take in the footpath link to the sea from the end of Lamond Drive; all the land east of the access road including the dwellings at St Nicolas' Steading and the front car park to the Leisure Centre, and the steep embankment to the south of the Wonder Years Nursery that falls within the defined Green Belt.
The vision for the East Sands/Harbour Improvement Area is that it becomes a "destination" within St Andrews, with its own strong identity "arising from its built and natural assets".
Design principles for it include maximising the potential of the waterfront location and maximising the potential for "sensitive redevelopment" where there is vacant brownfield land, unsightly buildings and underused or neglected assets.
A four week public consultation period will now be arranged, including a display in St Andrews Town Hall, and feedback from the consultation will be included in the final draft of the framework, to be brought back before the committee in June.
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