Councillor, Alan Hill is calling on the North Ayrshire Planning Committee to refuse to permit the proposed phase 2 at Dawn Homes’ site in Fairlie until the flooding issues from it have been fully dealt with.
Cllr Hill said, “Many of your readers will have seen the photos and video footage last week of the serious flooding emanating from Dawn Homes’ site in the village. This flooding caused much disruption locally. It also led to yet another escape of soil into the bay in Fairlie where it is causing a potential environmental hazard to wildlife.

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"As part of the initial agreement to housing being placed on this site, officers agreed a proposal for new flood prevention measures including new pipes to take waste water away from the site and the A78. I am now firmly of the belief that Phase 2 cannot be allowed to go ahead until after these flood prevention works have been fully completed.
"Last week saw yet another series of flooding events with large amounts of soil running off the hillside around the Dawn Homes site. This run off is now entering into the bay at Allanton Park Terrace in Fairlie where it appears to be causing damage to wildlife."
 These matters have been reported to SEPA who have instructed Dawn Homes to make improvements on their site.
Cllr Hill continued, “There is a large holding pond on site that was agreed to by planning as a temporary measure whilst the full remedial works were planned and installed. As far as I can see however this pond is in danger of becoming semi-permanent as we have no agreed timescales for the installation of the proper flood prevention works. If phase 2 is agreed to now, then I am seriously concerned that this will take the pressure off the developer in terms of getting the flood prevention works carried out.
I do appreciate that the flood prevention works involve Transerv, NAC, Scotrail and others however, as a Fairlie resident, I did not ask for the flooding problems that this building site is causing and I fail to see why we should allow this to be exacerbated at this stage by further building works.
It seems to me that given the fact that the current works appear to have directly led to increased flooding and specifically to soil run off, that a moratorium should be placed on any expansion of the existing site at this stage. Twenty-eight houses were agreed to as part of phase 1. What was also agreed to as part of phase 1 was a series of measures to remove the flooding emanating from the site and until these conditions have been dealt with fully, there should be no more building permitted at this stage.
"We have an agreed way forward to deal with this flooding and it needs to be put in place and shown to work before anything is done on site that might make a bad situation worse.”