A long session at Nairn
River Community Council yesterday evening that started with the end of the
search for a secretary. Stephen Fuller steps into the breach and was
proposed and nominated very quickly indeed as other potential
candidates breathed a sigh of relief.
The sole Highland
Councillor present was Tom Heggie and it seems the ward's four
councillors have divided up the Community Councils between them and
Tom will be coming to River CC. Lots of good craic about getting the
short straw.
Stopping the proposed
application for S2S oil transfers in the Moray Firth was discussed
and the recent trip to Holyrood by Cromarty Rising and some folk from
Nairnshire who got home and decided to creat “Nairnshire Rising”
on this side of the Firth. Ongoing and a new application for ship to ship transfers expected in October.
Murd thought that the
riverside was now totally neglected since the Highland Council took
over the grass cutting responsibilities into the public sector.
There was a bit of a blether about dangerous trees up the
riverside.
The meeting heard how
the Nairn workclub will soon be closing. The club offers help to
those who need to write up their CV for meeting the requirements of
claiming universal credit. Folk that have no computers at home can go
in and get one to one help. No more funding, a vital facility is going and what next
for folk on the edge of the cliff? Depressing stuff, hopefully something can be done here.
Mike Henderson was
concerned that although there now have been traffic wardens in the
Highland Council area for some time there seems to have been little
or no enforcement action in Nairn.
A bit of a stushie over
the brown bin scenario and it's downside. You would have to have been
there to get the craic on that on as a robust exchange developed between two of the CC's members.
Mike Henderson spoke
again, this time on why the full set of 20 beds at Nairn Hospital are not all in operation.
And then there was
planning and :
“Proposal of
Application Notice for site at NA2 South Kingsteps, Nairn
Please find enclosed a
Proposal of Application Notice (POAN) for a site at South Kingsteps,
Nairn. The following
details are included:
Proposal of Application
Notice for site at NA2 South Kingsteps, Nairn
As the document
from Springfield stated:
The site is identified
as NA2 for residential development within the Inner Moray Firth
Local
Development Plan
2015.
Further documentation from Springfield that entered the
public domain at the River CC meeting stated:
“PROPOSALS FOR
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE AT SOUTH
KINGSTEPS, NAIRN, ALLOCATED AS NA2 WITHIN THE INNER MORAY FIRTH LOCAL
DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2015 Notice is hereby given of a ‘drop-in’
public exhibition to learn more about the above proposed planning
application which will be submitted to the Highland Council. The
exhibition will be in the Nairn Community and Arts Centre, King
Street, Nairn, IV12 4BQ on Thursday 31st August 2017 between 2:00pm –
8.00pm.”
There we go folks looks
like the Lochloy suburbs could get a whole lot bigger in the future. When this site went out for comment in the Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan it attracted a lot of adverse comment - have things cooled down? We'll see no doubt as the consultation and the eventual planning application emerge.
Here's a wee Highland Council map we featured on the Gurn some time ago which shows you where the NA2 site is.
Here's a wee Highland Council map we featured on the Gurn some time ago which shows you where the NA2 site is.
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There was quite a
bit of other stuff discussed at River CC too, if time and memory
permits (after a wee diversion afterwards to the Seaforth Club) we
will make an attempt to retrieve from remaining brain cells later today. Oidhche
mhath!