This site is on a busy junction just outwith the centre of Inverderran. As a corner site it is important visually, being especially prominent when approached from Marshall Street to the south. The area is urban in scale and character.
Turrets frequently appear as corner features, thus the skyline is particularly intricate.
Roofs are slated. St. James R.C. Church, which presents a good facade to Johnson Terrace from behind a screen of trees. The church steeple is an important town landmark. The facade to the site, being a rear elevation, is insignificant visually, although daylight must be maintained to several windows. This entails achieving a suitable mass of building far the site under-development would be inappropriate.