Author: Geoff Riddington

February 19, 2024 Geoff Riddington 6 comments

In December the Planning Committee of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority (LLTNPA) unanimously approved the planning application by Mr and Mrs Young to build a luxury holiday lodge on Inchconnachan (see here  for committee report). Initially the application had included a proposal, based on advice from NatureScot, to remove the wallabies from…

June 15, 2023 Geoff Riddington 6 comments

The Draft Partnership Plan from the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority (LLTNPA) has now been published (see here) and I have become convinced it should not be accepted without very significant changes. As it stands it fails completely to lay out how the Park should proceed in order to achieve its third objective:…

February 12, 2023 Geoff Riddington 3 comments

Introduction In a previous post (see here) I commented how the inaction of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park (LLTNP) on helping define the route of the A82 between Tarbet and Inverarnan was worrying. There appeared to be an unwillingness on the part of the LLTNP to do anything positive to ensure appropriate use…

October 4, 2022 Geoff Riddington No comments exist

 https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE1967 In February (see here) I looked at decision making by Transport Scotland on the A82 Tarbet to Inverarnan and the inaction of the National Park Authority. Their view has been that Transport Scotland is the statutory lead for major road development and that as a statutory consultee their main role is to comment once…

February 9, 2022 Geoff Riddington 3 comments

[Editor’s note:  this article follows John Urquhart’s proposal for an alternative high level route above Loch Lomond (see here) and my follow-up post on the discussion of the A82 upgrade at the December LLTNPA meeting (see here)]. If Loch Lomond Park and Trossachs National Park Authority (LLTNPA) had been given £400m to spend on transport…