Unpopular Lairg motorhome aire project shelved
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A CONTROVERSIAL aire motorhome project at Lairg has been shelved, it has emerged.
Lairg and District Community Initiatives (LDCI) had hoped to develop an overnight service facility for motorhomes and campervans at a picturesque site close to the Ferrycroft Visitor Centre and overlooking Loch Shin.
Five serviced parking bays were proposed with electric hook-ups, a chemical waste disposal facility, water supply and rubbish disposal. The Highland Council owned site was being handed over to LDCI in an asset transfer.
The group was running a survey to gauge local opinion on the development, but it soon hit opposition from users of the area including members of the football club and sailing club.
Feelings ran so high that at the October meeting of Lairg Community Council acting chairman Andrew Mackay pleaded with local people not to leave “nasty” social media posts about LDCI.
Now LDCI chairperson Kaye Hurrion has revealed the project has been put on the back burner.
She said at last week’s community council meeting: “We have cancelled this project. We want to put it on the back burner and concentrate on other projects. We will maybe revisit it next year.”
The meeting later discussed an LDCI request to have a community council representative attend LDCI board meetings. It was suggested that different community council members could attend meetings in turn, rather than designating one member to attend all meetings.
Ms Hurrion said: “Without going back into things, I did make mistakes and the board made mistakes and I fell if there were more local people on the board, then you could point us in the right direction when we go wrong.”
Chairman Ian Thomson said he would attend the next LDCI board meeting but could not commit himself to attending every meeting.
