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Common Good Fund
May 18th, 2009 | Author: admin
May I advise all Nairn citizens that Sandown Lands are an asset belonging to the Common
Good Fund, is now, and always has been totally theirs. There is no farmer with either grazing
rights or agricultural lease using it. While Highland Council holds the Deeds, they do so onbehalf of Nairn residents. Therefore, they should use the area to walk their dogs, ride their
horses, cycle over it, picnic on it, kick a football around it, fly a kite from it and not just the
wetlands area all of it. Make sure you take photographs of your usage of the area so that
your claim to free usage is perpetuated. This counts for a lot at the next round of any future
planning application.
There is no reason why there might not be 130 or more houses built on Sandown, so that the
Common Good Fund can benefit and supplement the charitable work that it carries out.
However, Nairn citizens must all ensure that they are consulted by the Trustees of the
Common Good Fund BEFORE any disposal of Common Good Lands is made, under the
heading of changes to the Nairnshire Local Plan, in its future guise as the Inner Murray FirthPlan. Be warned that Deveron or someone like them will be back, aided and abetted by
Highland Council. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security that it was our Nairn
Councillors, who were instrumental in rejecting the application.
The application totally failed because Highland Council were disingenuous in how they dealt
with Deveron and the Nairn public. They failed to follow regulations by not acknowledging
the primacy of the Nairnshire Local Plan for 130 houses on Sandown; then, not following
procedures necessary to have it amended, having applied for planning consent for an increase
to 230 houses; and then, not translating the housing limits within that original plan (max.130)
into the DRAFT Development Plan. Furthermore, as the Draft Development Plan was never
brought to committee for approval it also never had legal status, as an authorisedDevelopment Plan.
Nairn citizens should understand that the Common Good Fund is theirs and theirs alone.
They should require that Highland Council make the Nairn Community Councillors Trustees
as well as maybe the 4 Nairn Councillors. Thus, they should also insist that the other
Highland Councillors should NOT be Trustees of the Nairn Common Good Fund. No offence
to them but they should NOT be Trustees because they do NOT live in Nairn, a fundamental
criteria of Common Good Fund administration, which Councillors in other areas of the
Highlands should be demanding adherence to in their own areas where a Common Good
Fund exists. If any one is interested I can bore them with the historical details and some of
the current cases being acted out around Scotland at present but there is lots of info here
John Hart
Mount Pleasant
Sandown Road
Nairn
http://www.nairnmatters.com/sandown-lands/http://www.nairnmatters.com/sandown-lands/http://www.scottishcommons.org/project.htmhttp://www.nairnmatters.com/sandown-lands/http://www.scottishcommons.org/project.htmhttp://www.nairnmatters.com/sandown-lands/