Scots Planning.................

[justine]

i wont comment but could this become a big problem........is this man right....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7283538.stm

[Oddquine]

i wont comment but could this become a big problem........is this man right....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7283538.stm (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7283538.stm)

I don't think it is just a problem in Scotland, justine. I think it is a UK wide tendency.

There are just too many limited interest pressure groups...........and an unfortunate tendency for the powers that be to invest them with more clout than their membership warrants.

It's not just a problem with planning, though....it is a problem in all facets of government, local or central.

[golach]

This is the same man that donated thousands of pounds to the SNP

http://www.snp.org/press-releases/2006/snp-welcome-support-from-donald-macdonald/

[Whitewater]

I have had a look at the web site you highlighted. The Donald Trump developement should be welcomed with open arms. A major developent in Scotland, in an area where local jobs are in decline should not be frowned upon. We will have a public enquiry costing millions, not come to any conclusions, which, at the end of the day will be no surprise. Just look at our history, when we try to be superior and consider all the irrelevant facts we always make a hips of it.

I just can't see us doing well if we were independent, we would talk forever, come to no conclusions, and have no effect on what is going on around us. We would just continue on as we are, being everyones cuddly neighbour.

We always get the call, 'what about the wild life'. The wild life has a lot more sense than the people who are yelling about it have. The wild life will resettle in the area at hand, and when the project has been completed, become a nuisance on the expensive golf courses which have been created.
The people in Aberdeenshire would be ''No wice'' (or is it ''not wise'')to reject or ignore it.

[Oddquine]

This is the same man that donated thousands of pounds to the SNP

So are you saying that someone who donated money to the SNP shouldn't be allowed to contact their SNP MSP in order to try and speed up a process which was on the verge of having its finances withdrawn by its bankers because the planning process had been going on for six years?

Alex Salmond intervened after hearing the concerns of a group of Highland MSPs - including Labour's Rhoda Grant.....not from Donald MacDonald......or are you saying that local MSPs have no right to bring long-standing problems in their constituencies to the attention of Government?