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October 2002 Update

Empty Building Next Door

As reported in previous issues, Aldi's application to build a supermarket next door to the school was turned down, after a major campaign by parents and local residents. Over 200 individual objections were collected by the PTA. A three-day public enquiry by the Scottish Executive upheld and extended South Ayrshire Council's earlier grounds for rejecting the application.

The school was ably supported at the enquiry by Tommy Fitzsimmons, former School Board chairperson, using our "Friends of Holmston" by-line.

This did leave the problem of an empty building next door to the school, and the derelict site, a garage formerly owned by Parks and earlier Appleyard, is starting to deteriorate. There's crumbling rendering, boarded up windows, lots of weeds etc.

We hear that a planning application has been made to build flats on the site, by the builders who recently built on the site of the old Ayr County Hospital across the road from the school.

These flats will be three to four floors in height. It's to be hoped that a sympathetic development of the site, to match the other flats across the road, will bring a tidy end to this story.

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