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- Written by Administrator
- Category: Debates
- Published: 01 November 2010
Herald Scotland article: ‘Wave of conflict’ over national park housing.
"This damaging development plan is destructive of the special features that the national park was set up to conserve and enhance,” said Dr Gus Jones, convenor of the Badenoch and Strathspey Conservation Group.
Press & Journal: Cairngorms plan ‘promotes destruction of national park’
“The natural environment and local communities are paying the price for a park authority that has unacceptably ignored its principal duties. "
Gus Jones, convener of the Badenoch and Strathspey Conservation Group, said: “This plan promotes the destruction of irreplaceable natural heritage in the Cairngorms and promotes excessive, open market development that is destroying the very special features the national park authority has a legal duty to protect.“The natural environment and local communities are paying the price for a park authority that has unacceptably ignored its principal duties."