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A recent Nairnshire Telegraph featured a number of issues relating to the Common Good Fund and comments made by Highland Council Convenor Sandy Park.

John Hart responds as follows:

Dear Sir, — The headline “Convener opposes the idea of community groups as custodians of Common Good” (Nairnshire Telegraph July 7) unfortunately confuses two very distinct issues.

Firstly, it is not community groups, it is community councillors that should be included in the Common Good assets disposal decision making process. Read full article »

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 on behalf 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.
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