The Badenoch and Strathspey Conservation Group

Blaeberry bee photographed at threatened Nethybridge, School Wood site

18 May 2010 |09:21

BSCG has advised the CNPA today (18 May) that the blaeberry bee has now been photographed at School Wood a site threatened by development in Nethybridge. Despite recommendations by Scottish Government Reporters School Wood controversially remains allocated for housing in the Cairngorms National Park Local Plan.

Caption blaeberry bee /Bombus monticola/ (credit BSCG)

BSCG has advised the CNPA today (18 May) that the blaeberry bee has now been photographed at School Wood a site threatened by development in Nethybridge. Despite recommendations by Scottish Government Reporters School Wood controversially remains allocated for housing in the Cairngorms National Park Local Plan.

Blaeberry bee / Bombus monticola © BSCG

No legal reason why the CNPA could not adopt residency criteria

10 May 2010 |22:04

At our Residency Criteria in National Parks talk today Bill McDermott, Chairman of Scottish Campaign for National Parks who worked for many years in the Peak District National Park as an Assistant National Park Officer, said "Despite what Danny Alexander MP was apparently told by the National Park staff, there is no legal reason why the CNPA could not adopt residency criteria. These would restrict availability of new build houses to people living within the National Park or with certain connections to it. Residency criteria would stop the present excessive development that is currently destroying the natural and culteral heritage of the National Park."

Residency criteria are successfully established on the east side of Loch Lomond and English and Welsh national parks.

At our Residency Criteria in National Parks talk today Bill McDermott, Chairman of Scottish Campaign for National Parks who worked for many years in the Peak District National Park as an Assistant National Park Officer, said "Despite what Danny Alexander MP was apparently told by the National Park staff, there is no legal reason why the CNPA could not adopt residency criteria. These would restrict availability of new build houses to people living within the National Park or with certain connections to it. Residency criteria would stop the present excessive development that is currently destroying the natural and cultural heritage of the National Park."

Residency criteria are successfully established on the east side of Loch Lomond and English and Welsh national parks.