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General Report 1/4/23
By: TinaIrving Date: April 29, 2023, 11:04 am
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Dear all
As some of you will have noticed by now, there is to be a
Climate Fringe Festival from 10-18 June 2023 with its base at
the Station Hotel in Thurso. I have included the Climate Change
Hub's web site on my web site at
www.tinagostravelling.wordpress.com, and now put up a couple of
travel options - not, of course, anything to do with air travel
or motor vehicles. This is to assist the Highland Council with
their ongoing problems with too many cars on the roads during
the summer, and of course to alleviate the problem with the
awful state of the roads.
I would point out here that had HIE, the NDA and Dounreay been
supportive of the development of the North Highland Way, the
Highland Council's budget would not have been so stretched on
road maintenance. As it is, the only thing the NC500 achieved
was to put the north of Scotland on the map. For the rest, the
Highland Council Access Officer and I have redeveloped the
western end of the route so it goes over the Mhoine and there is
of course the coastal path as well. The Geopark is seen to be
the western end of the North Highland Way, and the eastern
section will be discussed with the Access Officer at our meeting
on 10th April 2023. I do not attend tourism meetings. I have
enough knowledge of the area and the businesses not to have to
do that.
Venture North have declined to have anything to do with this
Festival and refused to put the event on their web site. I am
not going to make a fuss, I will just carry on as I always have,
doing my best for the North. The Highland Council, specifically
Matt Dent, will be the central point for gathering information
from the various tourism meetings. I will not be involved. We
meet on line once a month. Nature Scot input to my plans on a
regular basis, as do VisitScotland. We hope to start building
the Climate Action Plan in the autumn, although there will be no
money, so businesses will have to pay in for my administration
expenses, as they did at the start of the development of the
North Highland Way when 40 businesses contributed to costs of
the web site and some of my administration. My travel costs to
meetings were never paid for, but then I was the proud owner,
with my partner, Brian Sparks, of the Dunnet Head B&B and tea
room in those days.
I have applied to Joan to be a member of the Hub with my
research page at
HTML https://tinairving.academia.edu/
and look
forward to becoming a member in due course. I am in any case
part of SCCAN in Argyll through my project there - see web
site.
There are councillors and MPs included in the distribution list
for this email, as well as HIE, Nature Scot and of course the
irrepressible Matt Dent.
Accommodation businesses can pay £20 to go on the map on the web
site.
If you have any comments or suggestions, or if community groups
would like to put on an event during that period, please let me
know before the end of April when the programme will be
finalised.
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