Comments on: Local Councillors: Do they really represent Nairn?

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:43:55 +0000

Hi it should be good now.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:30:44 +0000

Hi Brian
I don’t know what is happening to my Email I triedgetting a friend to send to me as well and it bounced I am checking.

By: Brian Turner

Brian Turner — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:42:34 +0000

Jake, I tried to send you an email, but it bounced – do I have your correct address??

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:45:59 +0000

Hi Brian
I would like to Join your site as I have many issues that deserve, need to be aired and this seems an un-bias sit on which to do it I have tried to post topics but like Jon can’t find how to do so
Keep up the good work.

By: Jon Lane

Jon Lane — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:58:36 +0000

Hi Brian, don’t see another way to get intouch with you. Please drop me aline as I’m looking to start a business in Nairn. Looking at setting up an organic cafe, sales outlet, incorporating the local tourist info centre. Staffed by adults with learning disabilities. Too much to put here, please drop me a line for a chat/meeting.

Jon

By: Brian Turner

Brian Turner — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:47:34 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Jon, and welcome to the site.

By: Jon Lane

Jon Lane — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:33:31 +0000

I have only lived here in Nairn for 14 mths but can appreciate what an amazing place it is. It does how ever run a hige risk of becoming what so many small towns in West Yorkshire, where I’m from, have become. Unimaginative, inward thinking, charity shop blighted nothings. Nairn has so much to offer,my God, location alone says it must be onto a winner. Only abismal mismanagment could ruin this…………but it could and will happen if people do not take their heads out of the plentyful sand and wake up to the fact that it needs to develop. This development, as Iain says, needs to be linked, business and tourism. Shops need to be supported to thrive. The natural beauty needs to be protected and managed. Old buildings need to be put to new uses and not demolished. The council should use it’s power to presure companies like Summerfield to do somthing with or remove the redundent filling station etc. Don’t support a bypass, make what you see as you drive through Nairn make you want to stop. Bypasses in Yorkshire have killed small towns and opened the door to out of town shopping malls. Why turn off the main road when you can buy all you need at Asda?? If you want a great example of what not to do, look at Bradford! They knocked down the old heart of the city in th 70′s, copied what every town did, built an Arndale shopping centre and now they have knocked it all down again to create what? Nothing? Nairn is special, different and long may it stand out from the crowd as such.

By: Iain

Iain — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:13:50 +0000

To put the record straight, Sandy Park certainly did interject but not over what I said about tourism. It was early on when I was being critical of planning issues and he wondered what it had to do with tourism. So not unreasonable on his part. The person who used the term “doom and gloom” was Provost Liz MacDonald. But I am hopeful that with time to mull things over our elected representatives may come to realise that it is only doom and gloom if we do nothing – and like a good surfer, they have an opportunity to catch a wave. But they could also be washed away by it. I hope not.

By: Des

Des — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:26:01 +0000

Heads up everyone, something else has kicked off. The elderly in our community need our help, get over to the Gurn please and print off the petition and poster etc.

By: Bill (Scotland)

Bill (Scotland) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:22:47 +0000

It’s kind of frustrating in general that the HC comes across in general as having people making business decisions, who do not appear to have the relevant business experience to make such decisions.

Precisely; some of them are completely out of their depth as the outcomes of some recent policy/political decisions have shown.