Mind you the Scott heir lives in Wilmington....maybe this article represents another fine example of more money than sense? This article states the Scott heir wants cluster homes and shock, more McMansions so the Main Line can continue down it's path to utter Hamptonization (we'll all be living in Chester or Norristown by that time, eh?)...hmmm, when we think if cluster, we think of cluster [fill in blank]****. Cluster homes, oh goodie, let's build another school in Radnor, shall we? 'Cause that is what you are going to need unless the development of Ardrossan is 55 or over...sort of like the New Urbanism Disney Land To Be in Newtown Square, "Ellis Preserve" - once that begins, Newtown Township won't be so cheap, and shall we lay odds that another set of schools will need to be built there (Marple might want a divorce by then from Newtown)? Anyway, back to Ardrossan, or will we soon be calling it "The Estates at Ardrossan", "McMansionettes and Garage Mahals at Ardrossan", "Grape Clusters at Ardrosssan"....you get the point...we feel for Radnor residents because we have to wonder in the end the taxable consequences of whatever happens at Ardrossan...and given the close proximity of Ardrossan to Historic Ithan or Radnorville, well, yikes...Radnor residents look out and we feel your pain....Is Edgar "Eddie" Scott III so hard up that he has to destroy what his family built as their family legacy? Are his ancestors turning and churning in their graves?

Scott has a plan for storied estate
By Diane Mastrull
Inquirer Staff Writer

If you had a chance to develop the most famous estate on the Main Line, to subdivide its 360-acre expanse as you saw fit and build what you wanted, how would it look?
A tightly packed mass of small homes? A sprinkling of new manses on vast lots? Open space rolling to the horizon?

At the moment, the plan for Ardrossan is all of the above.

Four months have passed since the "For sale" sign went up at the storied Radnor manor - home to the Montgomery-Scott-Wheeler family for nearly a century and, in its champagne-drenched past, the inspiration for the high-society classic, The Philadelphia Story. In moving it to market, scion Edgar "Eddie" Scott III put out a public call for not only buyers, but thoughts on what should be made of the sublime spread and 50-room Georgian "big house."

Developers, preservationists, architects, land planners and a variety of nonprofits couldn't dial his number fast enough. Most offered ideas.

In an exclusive interview with The Inquirer last week, Scott, a real estate broker, said he had found no suitable buyer for all or even part of Ardrossan. What he has found is a development plan he likes. It's his own.

"I'm not saying it's the best one," said Scott, an admitted "control freak," as he leaned over a digitized rendering on the mansion's brick terrace. "I'm saying it's the plan that accomplishes as many of our goals as we can."

With many details still lacking, Scott is proposing:

As many as 80 carriage houses clustered on 38 acres adjacent to 41 acres of open space in Ardrossan's northeast corner, which is bordered by Newtown Road and now covered with eight-foot-high cornstalks.

Nine homes scattered on 113 acres of meadows and fields in the southwest quadrant. The lots would range from 10.5 to 21.7 acres.

Two parcels of open space along Darby-Paoli Road, totaling 44 acres, to be offered to Radnor Township to extend two parks, Skunk Hollow and the Willows.

Two tracts along Newtown Road, a combined 100 acres inhabited by cattle, to remain free of development.

The preservation of the 1911-vintage, Horace Trumbauer-designed brick mansion and 22 acres surrounding it - although how and for what use, Scott has not decided.

Buh bye cows.