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…
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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…
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…
National Park Planners recommend Loch Long fish farm application be refused
Ardentinny-based environmental group, AFFtheClyde, has this week welcomed, with guarded optimism, the National Park recommendation that the proposed Loch Long Salmon (LLSC) Bienn Reithe fish farm near Arrochar’s planning application be refused. Although the application has received support from some MSPs and local councillors, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park received over 200 objections…
Representations to National Park indicates majority opposed to Beinn Reithe fish farm
In light of Loch Long Salmon Ltd submitting additional information to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park related to its Bienn Reithe Loch Long fish farm planning application, the public now has a second opportunity to submit representations to the Park authority. Almost 200 members of the public and organisations have so far submitted…
Scottish Ministers will not intervene in Ardentinny fish farm planning application
Objectors to the proposed Dawnfresh fish farm at Ardentinny have failed in their attempt to have the Scottish Government ‘call-in’ the proposed planning application. Scottish Ministers have the power to intervene by ‘calling-in‘ in any planning application for their own determination. Last week those who had submitted objections to the application to SEPA in May…
Bute & Cumbrae SEPA CAR Licences – Deadlines for supporting objections
Our friends at ButeifulCoasts.com have created a very useful page outlining the process of how objectors can ‘call-in’ for review by Scottish Ministers the decision by SEPA to approve the CAR (Controlled Activities Regulations) licences for the proposed fish farms at South Bute, Little Cumbrae and Cumbrae. Even if you did not originally object to…