The Beinn Reithe, Loch Long salmon farm planning application was previously rejected by the Loch Lomond National Park Authority and subsequently appealed by Loch Long Salmon Company. However instead of the decision being made by Scottish Government Reporters, ministers stated that the “new technology” being considered “raises issues of national significance” therefore the exceptional step…
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Response to Holyrood Magazine “Swimming Against the Tide”
In the January 2024 issue of Holyrood magazine an ‘advertorial’ was published and sponsored by Loch Long Salmon Limited. The article contained a number of claims by LLS Managing Director, Stewart Hawthorne which need to be challenged. The magazine states that it is read by the country’s key legislators and according to Ipsos Mori, it…
Scathing closing submission from National Park on Loch Long Salmon planning appeal
With the conclusion of the Loch Long Salmon Ltd (LLS) Planning Appeal related to the planning application for an experimental semi-closed containment fish farm at Beinn Reithe, Loch Long in October, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority (NPA) has submitted its closing submission to the DPEA Reporter, who in turn will make his…
Fish Farm Farce – Loch Long Salmon Planning Appeal
Trial or Commercial? Which system manufacturer? Unproven waste management system? Potential for escapes? Mortalities prevention? Just some of the questions with unsatisfactory answers. Loch Long Salmon (LLS) thought it was all going swimmingly with their plans for a mammoth experimental fish farm using unproven technology at Bienn Reithe on Loch Long in the Loch Lomond…
Planning Appeal gets underway on refused experimental Loch Long Salmon fish farm. Question raised on Scottish Government “conflict of interest”.
Loch Long Salmon (LLS), whose planning application for an experimental industrial fish farm using untried technology at Beinn Reithe was refused by the National Park Authority (NPA) in November 2022, began its planning appeal on Thursday 8th June at Arrochar, Argyll. The pre-examination meeting was led by Scottish Ministers’ appointed Reporter David Liddell. The LLS…
Loch Long Salmon Beinn Reithe Planning Application Appeal – Respond by 11 May
If you submitted a representation to Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park or DPEA opposing the Loch Long Salmon industrial fish farm at Beinn Reithe Loch Long, then you should have received a letter (see below) in the last few days from DPEA. If you wish to attend the pre-examination meeting (which may be…
Loch Long communities respond to scathing attack on National Park by fish farm developer
AFFtheClyde this week defended the decision by the board of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park to refuse planning consent for what would have been Scotland’s largest fish farm after the company, Loch Long Salmon, launched a scathing attack on the Park planners. In a press statement after submitting its planning appeal earlier this…
National Park Board rejects Loch Long Fish Farm Proposal
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park board on Monday rejected the planning application by Loch Long Salmon Company for the salmon farm development at Bienne Reithe, Loch Long. The application which was supported by the Argyll MP, MSP, councillors and the Scottish Government was opposed by a number of communities around the loch who…
Deputy leader of Scottish Labour speaks out against the Beinn Reithe, Loch Long Fish Farm proposal
Deputy leader of Scottish Labour, Jackie Baillie MSP, whose Dumbarton constituency borders the proposed Beinn Reithe salmon farm at Loch Long, has spoken out about the development on the eve of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Public Hearing in Arrochar on Monday 31 October. In a written submission to the National Park,…
Are you attending the Bienne Reithe Fish Farm Public Hearing? We can help!
We still have some spaces left on the bus to Bienne Reithe Fish Farm Public Hearing in Arrochar on Monday. The visit will also cover the site of the proposed fish farm just up Loch Long from Ardentinny. By attending the meeting you will be demonstrating your opposition to the development and therefore helping to…