Nairnshire won’t promote Cinema of Dreams site?
Stephen Smerdon, the administrator behind the Cinema of Dreams website, complains that while the Aberdeen Press and Journal, Highland News, and Inverness Courier were all happy to carry coverage of the opening of the new website, the Nairnshire Telegraph decided against it. Stephen says: as everyone is aware Nairn is on the map for hosting [...]
Nairn: A New Local Plan
This post is going to get quite involved on the topic of its future development. For information on the existing Local Plan for Nairn, you can find more information here on the Highland Council website. For the main Local Plan document, this can be found here (PDF). I’ve also added some notes to the end [...]
Tornagrain New Town details released
Moray Estates has submitted an application to build a New Town at Tornagrain, which could see 5,000 homes and 5 new schools built: Five schools for planned new town A planning application has now been submitted to Highland Council and, if approved, construction work could begin in 2013. Andrew Howard, managing director of Moray Estates, [...]
Nairn firestation in real life soap opera
Bizarre happenings at the Nairn firestation – reads as a soap opera into itself: Firefighters cleared after fraud probe The probe was just one of a series of problems at the part-time Nairn station over the past 15 months. Mr Bruce claimed a lot of the unrest at the station was down to jealousy after [...]
Local restuarant in scam warning
Kevin at the Latino restaurant makes the papers after someone tried to pass off a bundle of forged travellers cheques on him for a booking: Scam scandal! “The package arrived containing US $2500. I immediately suspected they were forged. “There was no embossed lettering and I could see there was no watermark so I took [...]
Who’s poisoning the birds?
The BBC covers a report on bird poisonings across Scotland – and unfortunately Nairn seems to appear on the map: Bird poisoning ‘hot spots’ marked Unfortunately the map does not provide any figures – but it certainly disappointing that in a region rich with Buzzards, streaked by Red Kites, and whispers of Golden Eagles, that [...]
Nairn Floods at high tide
The Gurn has some photos of today’s earlier high tide and spate: Flood defences working but what about the drains? Good to see the council out – and also some optimism in the comments.
Councillor wants Highland high rises
Ardersier and Petty community councillor Alisdair McKay thinks instead of building attractive homes between Inverness and Nairn, instead we should be building high-rise flats: ‘Stop new town: send city skywards’ Mr McKay said: “If this was Hong Kong, we’d be shooting up into the sky. Hong Kong people are happy with it and penthouses are [...]
Network Rail: it’s safe until we check it
Not directly Nairn, but pretty scary considering the number of un-manned train crossings in the Highlands: Rail crossing probe finds problem An investigation has pinpointed a problem with a railway crossing that has been at the centre of a safety row. The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) said Network Rail found a battery for train [...]
Developers get preferential treatment?
Liz MacDonald lets rip after David Sutherland – chairman of Tulloch Homes – got a special visit at his home by “senior planning directors” over a personal planning application: Anger over ‘preferential treatment’ for north tycoon Angry councillors have alleged Inverness businessman David Sutherland was allowed “preferential treatment” by hosting talks in his own office [...]