A River Community Council source revealed to the Gurn this morning that in response to their advertisement in the Nairnshire Telegraph a further two hundred and nineteen people had registered their support for the application. The inquiry will be held next month and commences on the 16th.
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219 - does that mean that the whole of the Nairnshire readership has now responded then?
ReplyDelete219? That's just the number that lurk in various corners of the High Street waiting to get their Monday night hit as soon as the Co-op gets a delivery.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the recent revelations in the political world maybe the RCC should be careful where they are spending the TAX payers money - assuming of course they paid for the adverts. Lets hope its not a precourser to other disclosures about feathering ones own nest in due course but maybe a wee bitty closer to home. From the paltry numbers returned I calculate there are about 3700 voting against with their silence......Town centre development before Green Field destruction.
ReplyDeleteaye the Buckie delivery is always popular
ReplyDeleteYou'd be hard pushed to feather a sparrow's nest with the paltry funding that community councils get.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway an excellent opportunity to point out that the members of Nairn's Community Councils give their services free and some of them have been doing so for many years. You might not like some of their actions but they come free of charge. It is fatuous to compare the antics of community councillors in anyway at all with those of some members of parliament who have proved themselves to be nothing more than robbing bastards.
Objectors to the Sainsbury's application will be able to put their case at the inquiry, try the voting in silence theory with the Scottish Government's reporter if you like.
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ReplyDeleteGreen Field Destruction?. Last time I saw the area,there was no more than a collection of delapidated old farm buildings.
ReplyDeleteAs for 3700 votes,get real,your in Nairn Baby.
The Highland Council probably spend more on tea and biscuits, and definitely more on lunches, than the Community Councils get for their budgets.
ReplyDeleteHow come, when it comes to elections within the Community Councils, hardly anyone bothers their arses to stand, but then happily slag off those who do?
Well I did bother my arse to stand as a Comm Councillor ,and I would have to say this - While I respect the right of the RCC to express support for this application I feel that their evangelical campaigning has gone way beyond what I would consider reasonable, given the cirucmstances.
ReplyDeleteSupporting an application for a better supermarket is one thing but putting a group of elected representatives in a position where they could be seen as doing the developers bidding is quite another.
Or in the position of doing the community's bidding?
ReplyDeleteElsewhere in the Gurn there appears a wee story about Inverness "Now is Inverness High Street itself falling victim to the Eastgate, Golden Mile and other out of town stores? The signs seem to be spreading". Aye an maybe they will be spreading to Nairn too. Build Sainsburys where its proposed in the greenfield site with those 'delapidated old buildings' and perhaps that'll be the finish of the toon centre. I do not see the consistancy in highlighting the Inverness plight but forging ahead with a plan that may put Nairn in the same position in a couple of years. I agree we definitely need a new supermarket but not away out there!
ReplyDeleteI agree, the proposal in this location is not for the benefit of Nairn, and will certainly lead to the high street following the trend of Inverness and every other town in the UK that approves out of town retail parks.
ReplyDeleteNRCC in their initial correspondence to the planning authority OBJECTING to the proposal included the very relavent point that they "do not agree that the proposed development would enhance the Nairn High Street"