Plans to build flats on Fife laundry’s former site take step forward
Plans to build flats on the site of a former laundry in Cupar have taken a step forward - almost two years after being submitted.
Fife Council has granted planning permission in principle for the residential development at the former Front Lebanon base of AC Laundry.
Stirling based ACF Properties Ltd got the green light to demolish the buildings and build 16 flats in two blocks with parking.
In a planning statement, the company said it was looking for a “positive land use resolution” after the long-established laundry was forced to move after a Fife Council decision in 2023.
In 2023, ACF laundry, was turned down in a bid to ease restrictions on its opening hours to help it continue to operate successfully. Without that extension, the business decided that its “only option to ensure the successful survival of the business” was to relocate – which it did.
Its former Front Lebanon site is now redundant and ACF Properties Ltd believes that housing is the way forward.
The laundry buildings comprise a series of existing sheds and outbuildings associated with the former operation of a car repair garage at the site.
Planning permission in principle allows developers to find out if a development is generally acceptable without providing detailed designs. It will now have to come back for full planning permission in the future.
The permission granted this month will last for five years during which time the development must commence.