Stirling Council: Last News

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A prominent city centre shop unit could soon be home to an international kebab chain.German Doner Kebab have shown interest in opening one of their restaurants and takeaways in the former Brighthouse store at 50A Murray Place.Stirling Council planners have already conditionally approved an application by property owners Merseyside Pension Fund for signage and a decision on a related application, for a change of use from retail to a composite restaurant and hot food takeaway shop is currently pending.German Doner Kebab opened its first store in Berlin in 1989 and now has more than 50 franchises across Europe and the Middle East including Dubai, Bahrain,

Stirling Council has thrown the latest punch in a battle for control of the Wallace Monument, accusing the charity which runs the attraction of a “dismissive approach” to talks. Earlier this week, as revealed by the Stirling Observer, Stirling District Tourism (SDT) launched a community ownership campaign for the monument in a bid to scupper the council’s plans to pull it back in-house.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.Plans to redevelop an iconic Callander landmark, the former St Kessog’s Church, as a community hub have been drawn up by a group of residents and Stirling Council.For the last few years the B-listed Ancaster Square building, erected in 1883, has been lying vacant.Three Callander Community Council members Elaine Watterson, Richard Johnson and Sue King however have been working on a scheme to convert St Kessog’s into a £1m community facility.Stirling Council services including library, registrar’s office and public toilets would be based there – as well as a community centre, visitor centre, heritage centre and business centre, or ‘digital hub’.It

More than 1000 jobs could be created and the village population boosted by a third under plans to build 400 houses in Fallin.Ashfield Land (Fallin) Ltd is hoping to develop land between Drypow and Alton Farmhouses north of Main Street on the eastern edge of the village and has now lodged a formal planning application with Stirling Council.The 24-acre site - bound to the west by existing housing at Colliers Road, Castle View and Hirst Crescent - is currently farmland but is allocated for housing in the Stirling Local Development Plan.Also nearby are Fallin Parish Church; The Gothenburg pub; Polmaise Bowling Club; and Fallin Miners Welfare Club.In documents submitted with the application, agents for the developers said: “The economic benefits

Stirling’s historic Stevenson Bridge is to close to traffic for the next two Sundays to facilitate the installation of temporary vehicle barriers as an ‘essential safety measure’.The bridge carries the A9 Causewayhead Road over the River Forth into Stirling.The B-listed bridge, built between 1831 and 1832, is also known as the New Stirling Bridge, and was designed by renowned engineer Robert Stevenson.Stirling Council says that increasing traffic volumes over the last 50 years has taken its toll on the bridge and refurbishment works are now required.The bridge parapets now have to be fully replaced to "maintain the structural integrity and safety of the bridge", and the council is planning to undertake the replacement of these as part of a

Judy Murray has spoken out over comments describing £37million plans for a development at Park of Keir as a “vanity project”.

Scottish Ministers have been blasted for granting another extension to the Park of Keir talks - the ninth to date.

A rise in fly-tipping across Stirling in the midst of the coronavirus crisis has sparked a crackdown by Stirling Council.

Signage due to be placed at an accident blackspot near Callander, which claimed the life of a young woman last summer, could be rolled out elsewhere in the Stirling area.

Police and council officers are looking at whether a rise in begging across Stirling could be down to people trafficking.