Torrance is a relatively affluent village in East Dunbartonshire, formerly Stirlingshire, Scotland, located eight miles (thirteen kilometres) north of Glasgow city centre.

[4] Although weavers were among the earliest residents of the village, limestone, coal and ironstone extraction also began to emerge as a local industry.

[5] Torrance offers local amenities to its residents including one hairdresser, one beauty salon and barber, tennis courts, car valeting, mechanics, Scotmid, dentist, chiropodist, bakery, chemist, Chinese takeaway and newsagent and the Torrance Church of Scotland[6] at the foot of School Road and St Dominic's RC Church at the top.

Primary 7 pupils can transfer onto Boclair Academy in the nearby Bearsden or St Ninians High School in Kirkintilloch.

The land was designated as Green Belt in the 1990s, although it forms an intrusion between two parts of the village and most people believed it was simply Greenfield, where legal restrictions on development are less severe.

Reasons for rejection were that the land is designated greenbelt and the council had not yet done a long overdue review of current facilities as identified in the Local Plan.