On Monday evening, the Development Quality Committee of the City Council approved two linked planning applications for a restaurant development at Broughty Ferry station. The new restaurant will reuse the existing Broughty Ferry station buildings on the south platform and incorporate into the development the old signal box (see picture) which had been closed in 1995 and subsequently dismantled. Planning conditions attached to the approvals will, I think, protect the station's historic features. This is important because the Victorian station buildings and the old signal box are part of what makes Broughty Ferry distinctive. The re-erection of the signal box has been a matter that many local interest groups have campaigned for. I want to particularly thank the Broughty Ferry Community Council and its Planning Secretary, David Hewick, for persistently highlighting this issue and constructively pressurising for the sympathetic resiting of the signal box. I trust that the developers will be able to start the conversion work soon.
