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Kiltarlity News Published by Kiltarlity Community Council Issue No. 20 AUGUST 2009 50p Village housing plan approved he Glebe housing development is to note that the Glebe developers must Tto go ahead, but initially will be install temporary surface water drain- PUBLIC MEETING limited to 14 houses, although permis- age to prevent flooding and contamina- sion has been granted in principle for tion during construction and ensure that BOBLAINY a total of 24 houses. there is no overspill of surface water LET’S USE In the first phase, there must be at least onto the public roads. three affordable houses - affordable And there is to be no question of a OUR LOCAL FOREST housing must eventually comprise 25% start to house building until it can be of the total. And developers must ensure demonstrated that the development can PUBLIC ACCESS; RECREA- that there is proper drainage for surface be served by a water supply. TION; ARCHAEOLOGY water so that there will be no possibility Further building can only be started of excess water escaping from the estate, with the permission of the Council. TUESDAY giving hope that the chronic problem of water flooding into the Hall car park will 15TH SEPTEMBER be ended. 7.00 pm Highland Council planners have im- Culnaskiach Falls KILTARLITY HALL posed a number of further conditions on the Glebe estate developers: rediscovered SPEAKERS FROM FORESTRY no phase of the development can start COMMISSION, ABRIACHAN until the Council is satisfied that all ar- ighteen people turned out for AND REELIG WOODLANDS chaeogical finds in the area are preserved Etwo enjoyable early summer and recorded; walks to view the Culnaskiach Falls ALSO: 3.30 PM - 5.30 PM in order to provide an entrance to the in the depths of Boblainy Forest. EXHIBITION/ estate, the School road must first be wid- The evening walks were joined by DROP-IN SESSION ened and improved; folk of different ages who were blessed STAFFED BY a play area with at least five pieces of with reasonable weather on both eve- FORESTRY COMMISSION AND play equipment must be ready before the nings. COMMUNITY COUNCIL first residents move in ; Such is the continuing level of interest arrangements must be in place for the that the Community Council plan to areas of open space, verges and play area organise another walk to the falls next to be maintained before work on the site year. (See separate article on Boblainy can start. An ongoing maintenance Forest for plans to promote other forest scheme will become a legal responsibil- walks and give encouragement to any- ity of homeowners. Open space between one wishing to start up a local walking the estate and the Hall is to be designated group.) as a community area; a one metre high stone dyke must be built right along the north boundary of the estate (facing the Hall). Once work has started, working hours on the site are to be between 7 am and 8 pm on week days, between 8 am and 1 pm on Saturdays with no work to be car- ried out on Sundays or public holidays. Readers who recall the muddy roads Above Not Niagara but well worth see- which resulted when the Post Office Brae ing. Left Walkers at new bridge link- houses were being built will be interested ing Culburnie and Ardendrain 2 Boblainy Forest iltarlity Community Council’s K plans for increasing the recrea- tional use of Boblainy Forest and a re- lated archaeology project are making progress. On Tuesday 15th September, at 7 pm in Kiltarlity Hall there will be a public meeting to assess the level of local inter- est. The meeting will be addressed by speakers from the Forestry Commission and from other communities which have successfully increased the use of their local forests. Before the evening meeting there will be a small display and drop-in session in the Hall from 3.30 - 5.30 pm . It must be emphasised that Boblainy is still a working forest with felling and replanting programmes for well into the 2030s and beyond, so the current plans for increased use by the community do not include any proposal for a commu- nity buy-out of the forest, though this has been appropriate elsewhere - and is cur- No response on Kiltarlity signs but rently being proposed for Aigas wood- land. ( See sparate report) Highland Council alters Should there be a good response to the public meeting, funding applications will bilingual stance then be made to carry out the first phase of improvements to public access at Cul- burnie, Tor of Boblainy and Ardendrain. iltarlity Community Council is to Kiltarlity names are anglicised Gaelic These improvements will include car K seek a response from Highland but a few, such as Foxhole and Hugh- parking (beyond which access would be Council officials on the paper recently ton have no agreed Gaelic version, and on foot or by bicycle), picnic benches, submitted on the inadequacy of local Eskadale is Norse.) information boards and waymarking. road signs. Meanwhile Highland The Council is prepared to allow local Forestry Commission staff along with Council members have agreed minor consultation on new and replacement KCC representatives and Cllr Margaret changes to its approach to the erection street name signs while stressing that Davidson visited the forest in May to of bilingual signs. This has required a bi-lingual signs should be encouraged. discuss on-site the planned access im- change in the Council’s Gaelic Lan- The responsibility for ensuring road provements, and also saw the new bridge guage Plan which is to be to for- signs conform to the Council’s Gaelic which links tracks from Culburnie and warded to Bòrd na Gàidhlig (the Plan lies with the Area Roads and Ardendrain and now enables all timber to Gaelic Board) for their consideration. Community Works Manager but there be extracted via the A83 rather than us- The extent to which local people, ei- is a commitment that these signs will ing the narrow winding public roads ther through the Community Council be bilingual where an authentic Gaelic around Culburnie. (Though there have or otherwise, are to be consulted is not translation exists. Statutory highway been reports of timber lorries continuing particularly clear. signs e.g. Give Way will not be pro- to use the latter route; if this persists The Council will note the advice of duced bilingually. please contact the KCC Secretary - see Ainmean Aite na h-Alba (Place Names New street names are the responsibil- KCC contact list on Page 19 - who of Scotland), the organisation set up to ity of the Ward Manager who will be will raise your concerns with the Forestry establish correct and consistent forms of required to consult the local councillors Commission.. Gaelic place names and will also estab- and, where appropriate (our italics), Our early summer walks to the Cul- lish a procedure for resolving disputes with the relevant Community Council. naskiach Falls proved popular (see sepa- through a Gaelic Names Sub-Committee Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (AÀA), also rate article) and we will be leading or consisting of 10 members (cross-party, known as Gaelic Place-Names of Scot- promoting various walks in Boblainy with 3 members from the Gaelic Com- land, has members drawn from the Forest in future years. There are huge mittee). Highland local authorities, Bòrd na walking opportunities in the Kiltarlity Bi-lingual directional road signs will Gàidhlig, Comunn na Gàidhlig (the area, both in and outwith our local for- only be erected where there is a true Gaelic Association), HIE, the Ord- ests. Anyone thinking of starting a local Gaelic name – since a bilingual sign can nance Survey, the Scottish Place-Name walking group can be assured of support only be meaningful where there is both a Society and the UHI Millennium Insti- and background information on local Gaelic and an anglicised name. (Most tute . walking opportunities from KCC. 3 pylonpressure.com moves from one DRAINAGE DOCTORS Iain Goodwill Trust location to another every ten days at Mark Goodwill writes most - we’ve had no complaints from local landowners (fence owners to be SEPTIC TANKS AND s you may have seen in the press, more precise!) so thanks for that. SOAKAWAYS A we have had a breakthrough in The Scottish Government has led us the quest to prevent driveway acci- to expect a decision on the huge Public dents. Inquiry Report this year . Late autumn REPAIRS AND At a recent European Commission seems the most likely time so cam- INSTALLATION meeting where the issue of safety devices paigning will be stepped up from the was discussed, representatives from the end of this month. This will include a European Automobile Manufacturers TEL: ANDY BAWDEN new poster, and a new post card featur- 01463 741468 Association and the Japanese Automo- ing two quotations about the impor- bile Manufacturers Association agreed to tance of unspoiled landscape to the hu- Or the secondary safety device that Iain’s man psyche. ALI MATHESON Trust has been campaigning for. All new Each of these quotations is among the 01349 877629 models with a push-button start (push- twenty-five or so, dealing with many button starts are becoming standard) will aspects of the human existence which be fitted with a device to prevent acci- are engraved into the stonework of one Busy summer for dental starting, making a repeat of the wall of the Scottish Parliament. accident that claimed our son’s life im- These messages, from prominent Kiltarlity and Kirkhill possible with these cars. Scots of times past are surely intended This is fantastic news but there are still to be for the guidance of the many Churches many cars in use easily started by a Government Ministers and MSPs who young child.