A protest petition has been launched against plans to build nearly 500 homes on a greenfield site at Ladyfield near Kingholm Quay.
Campaigners are seeking support in their fight against the Crichton Trust’s £45 million “care campus” proposal.
And they have won the backing of Dumfries councillor Malcolm Johnstone who claims that the scheme “flies in the face” of the authority’s Local Development Plan.
