Kilmacolm – Old Hall

Site description

7.370  This site extends to 3.77ha and lies towards the north of the village, forming a wedge of open green belt land to the north east of the ribbon of private houses which front the north east side of Port Glasgow Road.  To the east is an area of council- owned open space to the west of a roundabout on Wateryetts Road, south of which is a terrace of 3 houses. To the north east is a field, a row of lock-up garages, the end of Quarry Road and no.31 Quarry Road. To the north west are 2 fields which slope up towards the village cemetery. To the west is a further field. The site itself comprises 2 fields of pasture, originally divided by stone walls that are now in varying stages of disrepair.  It also contains 2 roundels of mature trees of mixed deciduous and coniferous species. It is apparently no longer in agricultural use, although it is grazed by horses.   Its  south  western and  north eastern boundaries  form  part of the settlement/green belt boundary.  In the structure plan, it lies within an area of land between Kilmacolm and Port Glasgow described as a Green Belt Structural Corridor separating major parts of the conurbation. It does not, however, lie within a 'sensitive wedge' in fig. 3.6 of the local plan.

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