Community leaders in Kenmore say they’ve been given fresh assurances that core paths will stay open through the Taymouth Castle estate. Kenmore Community Council discussed the issue with Taymouth bosses on Monday. It comes after Ramblers Scotland raised concerns that the estate’s owners, Discovery Land Company, were proposing to restrict access and axe paths as part of their multimillion-pound housebuilding plans.
The walkers charity says maps lodged with Perth and Kinross Council planners show large areas sectioned off as “curtilage”. The term normally applies to the land immediately around a property, and not zones containing a number of homes, as appears to be the case here. The draft map places itself in one of these curtilage areas, along with a section of the River Tay and a group of standing stones.
The same paperwork shows proposed curtilage boundaries extending along sections of the existing path network. Discovery Land Company, which is behind the restoration of Taymouth Castle and plans for almost 140 luxury homes on the land, has said repeatedly . But protest group has claimed “eliminates over a third of the Taymouth Estate core paths.
” Kenmore and District Community Council discussed access and paths at its regular monthly meeting with Discovery Land Company on Monday. Community council spokesman Colin Morton said he and others had been assured that the status quo would be preserved. “There is no change to the core paths,” he said.
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