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ARDGAY & DISTRICT Community Council newsletter £1.00 [suggested donation] Issue No. 26 = WINTER 2014-2015 = CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN MAIN ISSUES REPORT The assets of Ardgay & District that the CaS Plan should take into consideration The Highland Council is preparing a new development plan which is now in its consultation stage. So far, Ardgay & District assets have been almost totally overlooked in the Main Issues Report. This plan could be in force for the next 20 years so your Community Council would like you to talk to the planners and tell them what you think needs to be in this plan. CAS PLAN IS A LONG TERM develop- ment plan, which more likely will affect the development in your area until 2035. The Main Issues Report is divided in four themes: Employ- ment, Growing Communities, Con- nectivity and Transport and Envi- ronment and Heritage. There are three strategies in the plan, but sad- ly none of them covers your area: Energy business expansion, Sus- tainable Rural Development Corri- dor and East Coast Connectivity & Tourism Corridor. What should our strategy be? A&DCC has created a map highlighting Ardgay & Dis- trict’s many assets (page 5). Please help your Community Council by submitting your views on the pro- According to the first draft of the Main Issues Report, Ardgay & District area appears posed plan. (Continue on page 4) to have no assets at all. /© HIGHLAND COUNCIL 2014. CROWN COPYRIGHT AND DATABASE RIGHT 2012 Kyle of Sutherland Development Trust, invited to submit a stage 2 application to Big Lottery to rebuild Shin Falls Visitor Centre (page 13) Tai Chi, Whist, 1st Ardgay and District a Cinema Club... Community Council Winter checklist, Events discover seasonal Children’s Art in the area, Gardening, Children’s pages, activities of local Competition Telephone guide, Bus groups Page 16 Page 20 timetable, Crosswords... Kyle of Sutherland Development Trust BUSINESS SERVICES Competitive rates for bookkeeping, payroll, printing and photocopying. To discuss your requirements, call: 01863 766190 or [email protected] Company Limited by Guarantee registered in Scotland: SC401019. Registered Scottish Charity: SC043587. Registered office: The Trust Offices, Dornoch Road, Bonar Bridge Sutherland, IV24 3EB Pete Andrews Business support in Driving School Sutherland We can help you with almost every aspect of starting, developing and running a business: • Accessing finance • Business planning Patient Friendly Tuition • Taking on staff Refresher Courses • Improving efficiency Pass Plus • Winning public contracts Areas Covered: • Branching into new markets and much more... Ardgay, Bonar Bridge Lairg, Golspie, Tain Contact us: Dornoch & Alness David Knight, Senior Area Business Manager Marianne Ross, Recruitment Adviser Business Gateway, Bonar Bridge, IV24 3EB Tel. 01863 766 884 Mob. 07763 133 922 01863 766128 [email protected] email. [email protected] [email protected] ARDGAY & DISTRICT Community Council newsletter WINTER 2014-2015 = P age 3 Contents 7 9 14 19 ARDGAY NEWS KoSDT NEWS CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE =CAS Plan ...................................................4 =KoSDT, a year of successes .......... 12 =Gledfield Primary School and =Ardgay & District CC Assets Map ...5 =Falls of Shin update ..........................13 Nursery ....................................................... 19 =Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries new =1st Ardgay & District CC Children’s office headquarters .................................7 GEARRCHOILLE WOOD ................... 14 Art Competition .................................... 20 =Remembrance Sunday ......................7 =Hamish, the tartan dragon .......... 20 =How to apply for funding ................8 WHAt’S ON IN THE AREA ................15 =Community Council members FROM THE MANSE contact details ........................................ 8 ADULT CLUBS & SOCIETIES =”A Christmas Message from your =Pantomime in Ardgay ..................... 9 =New Kyle of Sutherland Cinema minister” ..................................................... 21 =ALISS database.................................. 9 Club, a winter full of films �������������������17 =Ardgay Public Hall’s future ............. 10 LOCAL SERVICES A-Z ........................22 =Christmas message from Ardgay GARDENING Community Council ............................... 10 =Green manures ....................................18 CROSSWORDS ���������������������������������������23 Ardgay & District photographs EDITor’S LETTER Long cold nights would like to thank all our Icontributors, but particularly those who have ventured to send us a message for the first time. I hope you will like the Ardgay & District CC Assets Map. Please send your views to the Highland Council to ensure that our com- munity is not ignored in the CaS Plan! There is also some very good news: an exciting update on the Falls of Shin Visitor Cen- tre project, the Kyle of Suther- land Fisheries Trust’s new office, the 1st A&DCCN Children’s Art Competition and many activities from the various groups and Snowy 2010 winter by Donald H. Bain clubs in the area which surely L ooking over towards Ardgay from Bonar Bridge on the 7/12/2010. This was a will make the long cold nights very cold winter with temperatures down to -18 degrees at night. ahead more enjoyable. < Donald Bain is a skilled local photographer. Some of his works can be seen at Kyle of Sutherland’s Scenery Facebook page. Silvia Muras Editor P age 4 =WINTER 2014-2015 ARDGAY & DISTRICT Community Council newsletter Ardgay & District News Ardgay & District Community Council Assets Map Our Community Council area has a significant number of heritage sites, tourist at- tractions, indigenous wildlife, prime salmon catching rivers and deer stalking areas. Could we make our area even better? How should we plan for that? (Starts on front page) in the Bonar Bridge description. within our Community Council This is how the Main Issues Re- However, this industrial estate is boundaries that have archaelogi- port describes Ardgay: actually part of the Ardgay & Dis- cal or historical interest are: Cro- “Ardgay sits within the Dornoch trict Community Council area. ick Church, designed by Thomas Firth National Scenic Area. It is Ardgay & District CC area is Telford and closely related to the situated on the A867 and the Far rich in both built and natural envi- Highland Clearances, Carbisdale North railway line and benefits ronment. It is part of the Dornoch Castle, the last castle built in Scot- from a train service to Inverness. Firth Scenic Area, and part of the land, an Edwardian massive stone Piecemeal development between Special Area of Conservation (SAC) building near the place of the Bat- Ardgay and Lower Gledfield will of Dornoch Firth & Morrich More. tle of Carbisdale (1650), a part of be discouraged.” (Page 56) It has remarkable woods: the Cal- the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Ardgay, in fact, sits on the A836, edonian forest of Amat (SAC) and whose battlefield has been inven- Meikle Ferry to Tongue road and the ancient oaks of Gearrchoille toried and protected by Historic also benefits from being on Nation- Community Wood, which could Scotland. Our neighbour CC, Cre- al Cycle Route 1. There is also some benefit from becoming a Special ich, has been similarly overlooked confusion surrounding the Indus- Landscape Area (SLA), and rivers in the Main Issues Report. Please trial Estate, which in the report is such as Carron and Oykel (SAC), consult our map and send us your called “South Bonar” and included rich in ecology. Among the places feedback.< COC NTA T YOUR CC THROUGH THE WEBSITE WWW.ARDGAYANDDISTRICTCOMMUNITYCOUNCIL.ORG.UK Windfarms, Broadband, The Lady Ross, Community Benefit Funds and Parking in Ardgay HESE ARE FIVE of the topics which have featured involved in what is happening in Ardgay & District over the last year as special interest items. and to make your views known when our commu- TSome years ago the CC decided to extend the nity is being consulted. This is especially true at the regular CC meeting by dedicating the first half hour moment when we are being asked to have our say on of certain meetings to a topic of special interest to the new Caithness and Sutherland Plan. This plan is the community. The CC hoped that this would en- intended to be in place for the next 20 years! < courage members of the community to come along Have your say on the new CaSPlan at and hear about developments and give their views. www.highland.gov.uk/casplan The CC is always delighted to see local residents at and the core path plan review at its meetings and keen to hear their views. www.highland.gov.uk/corepathplans The five special interest sessions above drew a total attendance of 33 members of the public. 19 of these at- A pproved minutes of Ardgay & District tended the Lady Ross session. The CC would like to say Community Council meetings a big thank you to all those who have attended these special interest sessions and to those who attend the A vailable online from meetings at other times to give their views. www.ardgayanddistrictcommunitycouncil.org.uk The CC would like to hear from more of you because and in your local library. one of the main functions of the CC is to represent your NEXT MEETINGS: views to other agencies including the Highland Council. 9TH FEBRUARY 2015 & 9 MARCH 2015 The CC would like to encourage you to become ARDGAY PUBLIC HALL 7 PM Ardgay and District Community Council Boundary April 2011 Scourie CC Bettyhill, Strathnaver
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