Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA £3.4 million bid to build 16 affordable homes in Newmilns has been scrapped over flooding fears.Environmental agency SEPA objected to the development at Brown and Nelson Street as the site is on a flood plain.The Ayrshire Roads Alliance is also against the proposal.Now plans for the Newmilns development have been withdrawn.East Ayrshire Council has spent almost £633,000 preparing for the possible build.A report presented to the council’s executive committee said: “It will not be possible to make a successful application for planning consent to deliver a 16-unit new-build affordable housing development on the site at 52/ 54 Brown Street/.
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