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Between April - November 2015 the Carrick Castle Residents Group fought against a planning application that would have a high impact on community, landscape and wildlife in a beautiful corner of the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park. Their experience of the planning process highlighted the immense difficulties that Communities in the National Park face when trying to ensure their voices are heard within the planning process.
The Carrick Castle Residents Group are calling on the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Alex Neil, to review this planning application and the planning process that resulted in the application being accepted.
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Reached 100 supporters
January 6, 2016
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We frequently take holidays in the Loch Goil area and feel that allowing a development such as this to proceed would be detrimental to the area and a severe impingement on the natural beauty of the park. I ask you to refer back to your notes and to review this situation again.
chairman told the committee that planning could not afford appeal, and directed them not to reject application. This makes a mockery of the whole planning system
A hunting lodge will not benifit the local community, will have a detrimental impact on the local wildlife and will pose risks to walkers who regularly use the hills behind Carrick.
The National Park has totally ignored quite a large proportion of the residents of Carrick Castles opinions. The natural beauty and wildness of this place will be unrecognizable in a few years.Please look at this planning application again as there will be no benefits for our community economically or otherwise.
Please look again at the detail of this proposal. This area currently relies on the unspoilt beauty of the surrounding area, it's peaceful walks, it's magestic deer. This proposal in no way enhances the valley and shows a deep disregard for the local community and its recovering biodiversity.
This is a beautiful, peaceful hamlet and any planned changes to the landscape, and to biodiversity need to be considered openly, with a full interrogation of the claims made by those wishing to make the changes.
The Carrick Castle Residents community blog https://carrickcastlecrisis.wordpress.com - highlights and lays out and the back ground to this development. If this had been a Community purchase of land and subsequent development then the process would have been far more rigorous. We do need change and sustainable development but the Scottish Government needs to ensure that comprehensive and transparent cost benefit analysis is undertaken on all aspects submitted by applicants as a means of securing planning permission. Furthermore there should be some form of responsibility on Planning Authorities/National Parks to ensure that applicants are held to these activities, to ensure that planning laws are not being manipulated for personal gain at a cost to Natural Heritage and local Communities.
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
Between April - November 2015 the Carrick Castle Residents Group fought against a planning application that would have a high impact on community, landscape and wildlife in a beautiful corner of the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park. Their experience of the planning process highlighted the immense difficulties that Communities in the National Park face when trying to ensure their voices are heard within the planning process.
The Carrick Castle Residents Group are calling on the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Alex Neil, to review this planning application and the planning process that resulted in the application being accepted.
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
January 6, 2016
47 Comments
It seems as if the parks department are a law into themselves and are accountable to no one. They make rules and then when it suits them they break their own rules. Obviously this is yet another case of money talks
We frequently take holidays in the Loch Goil area and feel that allowing a development such as this to proceed would be detrimental to the area and a severe impingement on the natural beauty of the park. I ask you to refer back to your notes and to review this situation again.
chairman told the committee that planning could not afford appeal, and directed them not to reject application. This makes a mockery of the whole planning system
A hunting lodge will not benifit the local community, will have a detrimental impact on the local wildlife and will pose risks to walkers who regularly use the hills behind Carrick.
The National Park has totally ignored quite a large proportion of the residents of Carrick Castles opinions. The natural beauty and wildness of this place will be unrecognizable in a few years.Please look at this planning application again as there will be no benefits for our community economically or otherwise.
Please look again at the detail of this proposal. This area currently relies on the unspoilt beauty of the surrounding area, it's peaceful walks, it's magestic deer. This proposal in no way enhances the valley and shows a deep disregard for the local community and its recovering biodiversity.
This is a beautiful, peaceful hamlet and any planned changes to the landscape, and to biodiversity need to be considered openly, with a full interrogation of the claims made by those wishing to make the changes.
The Carrick Castle Residents community blog https://carrickcastlecrisis.wordpress.com - highlights and lays out and the back ground to this development. If this had been a Community purchase of land and subsequent development then the process would have been far more rigorous. We do need change and sustainable development but the Scottish Government needs to ensure that comprehensive and transparent cost benefit analysis is undertaken on all aspects submitted by applicants as a means of securing planning permission. Furthermore there should be some form of responsibility on Planning Authorities/National Parks to ensure that applicants are held to these activities, to ensure that planning laws are not being manipulated for personal gain at a cost to Natural Heritage and local Communities.
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It seems as if the parks department are a law into themselves and are accountable to no one. They make rules and then when it suits them they break their own rules. Obviously this is yet another case of money talks