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Kathryn Anderson

Scone Palace: Plans for a brand new visitor centre edge a step closer

Development plans for Scone Palace will take a step forward this week.

Scone Estates is drawing up plans which include a brand new visitor centre, shop, restaurant, ticket office, adventure play park, biomass plant and solar meadow.

A pre-application report was going before Perth and Kinross Council's Planning and Placemaking Committee on Wednesday, February 22.

Councillors will have the opportunity to raise issues they would like considered as part of the planning process.

Scone Estates has plans to convert the existing stable block into a visitor centre. The brand new visitor centre would include a shop, restaurant and ticket offices. Plans also include an adventure play park, footpaths, parking, a pavilion building, greenhouses as well as installing a biomass plant and solar meadow.

Visualisation of refurbished stables at Scone Palace (UGC)

The Perthshire site has held an important place in Scotland's history for over 1000 years. It was the site of both parliaments and coronations. Many Scottish monarchs - including Macbeth and Robert the Bruce - were crowned at Scone.

On Wednesday councillors were to be given a chance to advise council officers of any issues which should be considered as part of the planning process for the Scone Palace application.

The first consultation for the plans - submitted by Savills on behalf of Scone Estates - took place on December 13.

The next consultation will be held on Tuesday, February 28 from 3pm to 8pm at the Robert Douglas Memorial Institute, 102 Abbey Rd, Scone, Perth PH2 6RU. Members of the public will have the chance to discuss the updated plans, visuals and information on the proposal.

Members of the public will also have the chance to look at an unmanned static display in Scone Palace's coffee shop from Wednesday, March 1.

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