Plans for 175 more houses at Hillside will come before the June meeting of the Kincardine and Mearns Area committee.

Councillors were told this morning that the application for full planning permission for the housing at Leathan Fields will return to the committee.

The application had originally been approved subject to a resolution of concerns about capacity at Hillside School.

At that time, it had been anticipated that children would be rezoned to Portlethen Primary or Fishermoss School. If the rezoning proposals were not accepted, then the application would have to come back to the committee. As Education Scotland objected to the rezoning as well as local opposition, this is resulting in the application coming back to the committee, following discussions between the Planning Service and the developer.

Area manager Bruce Stewart told councillors that the Planning Service has confirmed a report will be presented to the area committee on 14 June.