HOUSES Approved For Margaret Fleming Murder Investigation Home Site

PERMISSION has been given for houses to be built at the site of the Inverkip property at the centre of the Margaret Fleming murder investigation.

Inverclyde Council planners have agreed that Coventry businessmen Harinder Kohli and Minaz Rajabali of Slam Transport can go ahead with a development of two homes at Seacroft on the A78.

Documents submitted with the application stated: “This dynamic development…overlooking the Firth of Clyde offers a new and fresh image to an existing dilapidated site.

“The designs and materials take inspiration from the sea, the woodlands and the semi-rural location to reflect the location of this plot of land.”

The statement continues: “It is essential here to emphasise the very sad recent history of this site. It has been/is at the forefront of a murder inquiry and trial and as such has left this beautiful area of land with a melancholy that really needs to be lifted. It is in the interests of the area, and of course the nearby neighbours, to bring new life to this land and erase, where possible, the memory of this dreadful event.

“An exciting new modern development will help achieve this. It is of course a very beautiful site being as it is on the south bank of the Clyde Estuary and it has in the past been under-developed for a single house. Not only this, the old house, and those of the two neighbours did not take any real advantage of the stunning riverside location and exceptional site.”

Seacroft was subject to an extensive search by police trying to trace missing woman Margaret Fleming, pictured below, inset. Edward Cairney and Avril Jones who lived at the property were convicted of murdering her last year.