Month: May 2025

May 26, 2025 Nick Kempe No comments exist

The judgement of the Supreme Court in the Dartmoor camping case issued last week (see here) was good news for those concerned it might lead to the further erosion of access rights in Scotland.  Alexander and Diana Darwall, the owners of the 1,619-hectare (4,000-acre) Blachford estate on Dartmoor where they were trying to stop people…

May 21, 2025 Nick Kempe No comments exist

The provisional decision of the Scottish Government appointed Reporter last week to uphold Flamingo Land’s appeal against the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority (LLTNPA)’s refusal of planning permission for their proposed development at Balloch should surprise no-one. Senior management at the LLTNPA had long backed Scottish Enterprise’s wish to use the land they…

May 17, 2025 Graham Garfoot 3 comments

  On 2nd May Highlands and Islands Enterprise announced (see here) that having re-opened the funicular on 27/02/2025, after one and a half years of repair work, it would be closing it again on  12/05/2025 – just ten weeks later – for another three weeks until 2/06/25: “while the company’s in-house engineering team carries out…

May 16, 2025 Nick Kempe 7 comments

The caption reads “A solitary pine clings to the hillside in Coire na Ciste. A rare survivor in an otherwise treeless landscape”.  Propaganda credit Spey Catchment IniitiatveA month ago, on 15th April, the Spey Catchment Initiative (SCI), a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO), formed in December 2022 issued a news release announcing it was to…

May 7, 2025 David Craig No comments exist

Further to Nick Kempe’s post at the end of March about how satellite technology is rapidly undermining the case for erecting phone masts in Total Not Spots (see here), it is worth highlighting that Vodaphone announced at the end of February (see here) that they are planning to offer satellite enabled, low data rate calls…