H & H Properties applied for permission to demolish the mill so it can build 14 mews-style properties on the same footprint, echoing the mill's design. This was recommended for conditional approval by council officials.
Other developments on the s
ite, not relating to the mill, already have planning consent.
The committee was told that the applicant believed the Mill building was capable of conversion at the time of planning applications made in 2006.
The applicant's statement continued to say that further time has elapsed and, as the building has been severely affected by fire, conversion is no longer possible.
It concludes that in order for the Mill building to be used for residential use it requires to be demolished and re-built, and that national, strategic and local planning policy supports this course of action.
However, the proposal to demolish has been met with significant opposition from within the community, and the meeting was addressed by Margaret Copland, president of Monifieth Local History Society.
While accepting that there has to be progress in the development of a town, Mrs Copland said that there must surely be some connection with its past, and that past is almost always tied to what remains in its visual structures.
She touched upon Monifieth's Pictish history, then spoke of the burgh's industrial past, adding: "Within close proximity to the Church were at one time a flax mill, then two foundries, which when operating at their peak performance employed between two and three thousand persons."
Now all but the Milton Mill have been demolished, and there is no other trace of the area's proud past.
Mrs Copland went on: "Records show that linseed oil produced at Milton was exported to London before 1800. Early in the 19th century, with the introduction of flax and spinning, the Milton Mill was established in 1813 by Messrs Fairweather & Baxter.
"After standing empty for some time, in 1859 the building was refurbished for use as a flour mill.
"In 1888, once again the building became used for processing flax under the ownership of partners Carmichael & Dalgliesh.
