New neighbourhood at Castlemains Farm, Dirleton wins planning
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New neighbourhood at Castlemains Farm, Dirleton wins planning

Published on 4 July 2019

Castlemains Farm, located to the southeast of Dirleton Village, East Lothia, has received resolution to grant planning permission from the Planning and Environmental Appeals Division of the Scottish Government.

Designed by architects and masterplanners JTP for Queensberry Properties in close consultation with East Lothian Council and Historic Environment Scotland, the proposals create a new residential neighbourhood, which draws on Dirleton’s rich historical and architectural character.

The masterplan seeks to enhance the outward appearance of Dirleton along its southern boundary, providing a new defensible edge to the village composed of sensitively designed and locally distinctive homes.  Key views to the east of Dirleton Castle have been preserved and enhanced with a landscaped buffer to the foreground of the neighbourhood that manages the transition between village and countryside.

The proposals will provide 26 family dwellings that will sit alongside 10 affordable houses and cottage apartments. The neighbourhood is tenure blind, designed with the architecture drawing from a selected materials palette to create a uniformity of appearance and character.

The design concept envisages four main components to the plan:

The Steading Cluster; affordable homes arranged around a shared garden space and united within a perimeter of masonry walls.

The Southern View, conceived as a series of expressed gabled elevations linked by masonry walls in keeping with the form and scale of the character of Dirleton, forming a new positive frontage to the village.

Castlemains Place; homes arranged along a shared surface lane, reflecting the form and scale of the existing buildings along Castlemains Place.

The Courtyard Cluster; a grouping of family homes arranged in a courtyard with garage buildings and adjoining boundary walls to create an enclosed exclusive setting.