Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander in Strathspey 20 January 2011
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In April 2010 the lIberal Democrats pledged to put protecting the environment at the heart of government Nick Clegg said then the next government will be the last that is able to stop "dangerous" climate change.
Nick Clegg in Strathspey on 20 January 2011.
In his maiden speech on 19 May 2005 in Westminster Danny Alexander said "the current reality of climate change are all too apparent to my constituents, not least because they are highly visible through the fortunes of the Scottish ski industry".
Danny Alexander also used his maiden speech to say: "Clearly, the need to develop the tourist industry further must be accommodated in such a way that it does not at the same time undermine the natural features that attract the visitors in the first place. We must not kill the goose that lays the golden egg".
Danny Alexander in Boat of Garten Village Hall 20 January 2011.
Road Sense granted Protective Expense Order
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Roadsense who are challenging the legality of road building decisions in Aberdeen have been granted a Protective Expense Order of £40,000.
See BBC News: Road Sense wins Aberdeen bypass legal cost victory, the Court of Session opinion and the Road Sense Press release.
Strathspey considered last caper stronghold in Britain
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The capercaillie is on the UK red list of birds of high conservation concern, BTO Bird Facts:
http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/results/bob3350.htm
SNH have now rightly emphasised the importance of woodlands in Strathspey for the survival of this magnificent bird in Scotland, see The Scotsman article: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Capercaillies-on-brink-of-extinction.6692483.jp
Cock capercaillie photographed in Deeside where capercaillie have now become extremely rare. Copyright 2011BSCG.
Media Coverage of Legal Challenge to CNPA
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Legal challenge lodged to Scots national park local plan
planningresource.co.uk, 13 January 2011 (free registration required)
The plan supports the building of 1,900 new homes in the Cairngorms National Park, including up to 1,500 in a new community at An Camas Mor near Aviemore, and was adopted in November. But the Scottish Campaign for National Parks (SCNP), the Cairngorms Campaign and Strathspey Conservation Group ...
Threat to 1,500 new homes scheme
Press and Journal, 12 January 2011
Environmentalists launch major legal challenge to controversial cairngorms proposals.
Park plan faces legal challenge (PDF link)
Strathspey and Badenoch Herald, 12 January 2011
A LEGAL challenge has been mounted in Scotland's highest civil court against the first Local Plan for a Scottish national park.
Legal challenge to Cairngorms housing plans
Walk Highlands, 12 January 2011
Plans for massive new housing inside the Cairngorms national park could be sunk by legal action being brought by three Scottish based environment groups in the Court of Session.
Legal challenge to Cairngorms national park local plan
glasgowwired, 11 January 2011
Environmentalists have launched a legal challenge to housing developments planned for sites in the Cairngorms National Park.
Legal challenge to Cairngorms national park local plan
BBC News, 11 January 2011
Environmentalists have launched a legal challenge to housing developments planned for sites in the Cairngorms National Park...
Huge Cairngorms Housing plan faces court challenge
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Plans for massive new housing inside the Cairngorms national park could be sunk by legal action being brought by three Scottish-based environment groups in the Court of Session.
The groups are challenging the Cairngoms national park authority's housing plans which provides for over 2,000 new homes, including 1,500 at An Camas Mor, near Aviemore, which, it is claimed, would be the largest housing development in any UK national park.
The Cairngorms Campaign, the Scottish Campaign for National Parks, and the Badenoch and Strathspey Conservation Group are also challenging developments at Grantown-on-Spey, Nethy Bridge, Carrbridge and Kingussie.
The park authority has shared responsibility for planning, and the three are arguing that the authority's housing allocations are so large and environmentally damaging that the authority is failing in its legal duty to "conserve and enhance the natural and cultural heritage of the area".
Bill McDermott, the groups' spokesman who is also chairman of the Scottish Campaign for National Parks, said: "The park authority has been acting as the developers' friend. It should be a conservation agency not a development agency.
"There was a public local enquiry into the park authority's Plan, and we felt natural justice was ignored when the park authority failed to follow the Reporter's recommendations.
"We're fully aware of the need to house local people, and have well-balanced communities with homes for young people who couldn't otherwise afford to live in the park. But the authority will trash the park the way they're going. Theirs is a recipe for masses of holiday homes, and social incohesion."
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More info -
Bill McDermott 01456 450397 or 07754 990325
or Robert Maund 01505 682447
Scottish Campaign for National Parks www.scnp.org.uk
Cairngorms Campaign www.cairngormscampaign.org
Badenoch and Strathspey Conservation Group www.bscg.org.uk