Major Allenby submits objection (70 pages) to Highland Wide Local Development Plan

A seventy page professionally produced document was held aloft at the River Community Council meeting this evening. It seems local landowner Major Allenby is submitting a major objection to the Highland Council’s development plan based on issues relating to the ‘South Nairn’ area’.

It further emerged from Councillor Tommy Hogg that the River Community Council had been urged by a representative of Maj Allenby, a Mr Evans, to attend a meeting with Highland Council, Major Allenby, other developers and Gordons sawmill. Tommy stated that he had phoned Highland Council to find out if they were invited but the response was negative. After much discussion the River folk decided not to seek to attend so as to avoid any potential conflict of interest in the future with conflicting planning applications.

There was concern about how any South Nairn development could affect Gordon’s sawmill and Councillor Iain Gordon stated:

“The Highland regional plan, which is already out there now, Gordon’s saw mill is part of that and their proposed extension etc is there. They are already investing over a million pounds and they employ locally 100 people which is very, very important to Nairn.”