Re: Tigh na Cailleach under threat | Forum

Howburn Digger Mar 10, 2011 20:58:12

Replying to BigSweetie

I'm off there at the start of May combining a much looked forward to visit Tigh na Cailleach with some hill loch, trout-commando activities.

This is very worrying news for the Cailleach. Like many I am very much in favour of Hydro-schemes. My father built a lot of the switching gear for the original Hydro network built in the Highlands in the 1940's and 1950's. He spent long periods away from home during those years. The scheme was vast - not just a few dams with turbines and switching stations - but a vast system of tunnels connecting distant lochs and channeling water through chains of lochs over long distances. It is often only really utilised to cope with a surge in demand when the kettle goes on for Eastenders. It would be such a pity to wreck the peace the Cailleach enjoys for that.
I havent read the full proposal yet but I shall and will leave my comment on the application.

summerlands Mar 10, 2011 21:14:33

Replying to Howburn Digger

Actually HD your post prompted me to wonder... I was always told the hydro capabilities were under-used in Scotland. So why are we building more? Precisely for those peaks do you think? Because the peaks have got higher?

moss Mar 11, 2011 15:50:05

Replying to Howburn Digger

Howburn Digger wrote:

I'm off there at the start of May combining a much looked forward to visit Tigh na Cailleach with some hill loch, trout-commando activities.

It would be such a pity to wreck the peace the Cailleach enjoys for that.
I havent read the full proposal yet but I shall and will leave my comment on the application.

Well if people are leaving comments a good quote might be (culled from John Muir's site)....

Scottish Planning Policy (2010) states: “The most sensitive landscapes may have little or no capacity to accept new development. Areas of wild land character in some of Scotland's remoter upland, mountain and coastal areas are very sensitive to any form of development or intrusive human activity and planning authorities should safeguard the character of these areas in the development plan.”

( there does seem to be legislation out there to protect sensitive landscapes)