Try Praying

The people of Monifieth will be seeing a new Church on the town’s High Street in the next few years.  Planning Officers at Angus Council originally refused planning permission for construction of the new church.  However, on application to the County’s Local Review Body, Pearson Planning,Chartered Surveyors obtained conditional planning permission.  The LRB voted 5-0 to grant permission.  The Planning Officer, Ruari Kelly, came in for particular criticism.  Planning permission was originally refused on the basis that the Mr Kelly did not want the existing buildings demolished. Demolition of a building that is not ‘listed’, outside a Conservation Area, doesn’t need the approval of the planning authority.  The Congregation of Monifieth Parish Church of Scotland intend to open the new Church with its meeting rooms & garden in 2017.

Picture courtesy of Lee Boyd Architects (c) 2015.