Plans submitted to build new whisky warehouse at city industrial estate

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Plans for a new whisky storage warehouse scheme in Throsk have been lodged with Stirling Council planners.Ian Macleod Distillers (IMD) submitted a PAN (Proposal of Application Notice) at the end of last year and they have now submitted a formal planning application for a whisky maturation warehouse scheme at Bandeath Industrial Estate.The company say it is expected to create upwards of 25 full time equivalent jobs.The development will house a complex of modern buildings, providing additional capacity for the company’s operations across Scotland, and will comprise nine whisky storage warehouses, a blend centre associated to a tank farm, and an office building.

The newest addition to the company’s production and distribution network, the warehouse buildings will store casks, allowing whisky to slowly mature for several years prior to it being sold in bulk or as cased goods.Covering 20.2 acres, the site is felt by IMD to be an ideal location for them to deliver a maturation warehouse scheme, given transport linkages to their estate, and the fact the site is zoned for employment uses in the Stirling Local Development Plan.Casks will be filled and matured from all the IMD distilleries, which are Rosebank in Falkirk, Glengoyne in Stirlingshire and Tamdhu in Knockando on Speyside.

Blended and matured whisky will then be transferred by road tanker to IMD’s bottling facility in Broxburn. before being exported across the UK, the US, Europe and the Far East.

Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area. A spokesperson said: “The venture will serve to bring significant benefits to the local economy through selecting local companies for the design and construction of the complex, where possible, and providing new