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 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…
Your opportunity to speak against Loch Long Fish Farm proposal at Public Hearing
Planning Application 2021/0357/DET – Loch Long Fish Farm at Bienn Reithe. Any member of the public or organisation which has made a written representation prior to the National Park Special Board Report being published may request to speak at the hearing. Please read the Framework Document prior to completing the speaker participation form. The speaker…
Loch Long Fish Farm Public Hearing & Site Visit
Loch Long Fish Farm Public Hearing & Site Visit MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2022 AT 10:20 AM – 5:30 PM A public hearing in respect of the planning proposal for an industrial-sized, semi-closed fish farm at the head of Loch Long (Beinn Reithe) will take place at Three Villages Hall, Shore Road, Arrochar, G83 7AB on…
Proposed Loch Long fish farm (Beinn Reithe) – Questions that need to be answered
With a second fish farm planned for Loch Long and the planning application submitted by Loch Long Salmon Ltd. (LLS) to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park in October 2021 (with a closing date for representations/objections of 5 December, 2021), we should all be concerned at the rapid growth of proposed fish farms in…