Development plans for Cultybraggan, the former World War II prisoner of war camp in Comrie, Perthshire, are underway.

Comrie locals who bought the camp last year in a community buy-out have submitted plans to Perth and Kinross Council.

They want to create 30 allotments, turn the mess hall into a base for a local catering firm and transform nine of the Nissen huts into workshop and storage areas for local businesses.

There are also plans to develop the camp which held up to 4,000 PoW's and Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess for a night after parachuting into Scotland in 1941 into a local history project with commercial developer partnerships.


Alan Caldwell from the Comrie Development Trust said: "The opportunity of Cultybraggan is that predominantly all the land in our village goes as expensive housing, so as a result there's not really a lot of land available to do other things.

"Comrie has always had a bit of green fingers and we were actually quite taken aback by the level of interest there's been in the idea of developing the allotment.

"We've got an allotment society, the 30 allotments I understand are all gone, and there's scope to make that larger in the longer term.

"There's really been quite an interest, not only from private individuals but from local organisations - we've got Comrie in Colour who want to have a polytunnel and run training and educational courses with the local primary school and with our high schools."

(GK/JM)