Work is progressing on the development of a 30-hectare business park in Moray.

A strategic framework for the scheme located to the east of Elgin was approved by councillors on Tuesday, 01 November.

The document will be used as a material consideration in determining future planning applications for the site at Barmuckity. In addition, it provides for a range of land uses such as business, industrial, retail, leisure and housing. The layout of the park will include a wetland water feature within a parkland setting.

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A report to the council's planning and regulatory services committee stated the balance of uses within the framework "aims to promote delivery by ensuring the project is economically viable."

"The purpose is to provide a framework in both land use and landscape terms to set the context within which all future proposals and planning applications will sit," the report said.

"The mix of uses includes some higher value uses such as housing to support the delivery of business and industrial uses. The inclusion of housing and identifying the potential for leisure and retail uses that are ancillary to the main use is a key difference from the designation within the 2015 Moray Local Development Plan which is for employment uses only."

(LM)