PLANS for phase one of the wider Dallas Dhu masterplan have been approved by Moray Council.
The masterplan is a collaboration between the local authority and Altyre Estate, which will see the delivery of 24 affordable homes; 40 student beds; four serviced plots for custom-built housing; and six serviced plots designed as a housing innovation area.
Moray Council said the Dallas Dhu development aims to create a sustainable community with multi-functional outdoor spaces to encourage physical activity and food growing.
Director at Fraser/Livingstone Architects, Robin Livingstone, said, “The project offers an extraordinary opportunity to create a landscape-led community of homes that carefully mediate between town and rural landscape. The range of tenures and house types will cultivate a mixed multi-generational community within a walkable, vibrant, green and sociable new community that’s woven into, and informed by, the qualities of the existing context.
“We commend the innovative collaboration taken by Moray Council and Altyre Estate, which has afforded a more integrated approach in the design of the scheme, and we look forward to working together towards the successful delivery of the project ambitions.”
A spokesperson for Altyre Estate added, “We are delighted that this collaborative project is progressing well and look forward to seeing this important first phase of development deliver much-needed homes and accommodation for Forres.”
