The Royal and Ancient Burgh of Nairn’s three Community Councils decided at their combined meeting earlier this evening in the Laing Hall to back a proposal by former Provost Liz MacDonald to form a project group to take an Action Plan based on the Community’s ideas for the town centre forward.
Virtually all those present agreed to meet next Thursday to consider an issues paper, outline the community’s proposals for the site and possibilities for funding.
It was a meeting full of realism, those present well aware that there is little or no money to go around but positive about coming up with imaginative solutions to the problems. There was a good feeling in the air Gurnites, as the town’s Community Councillors and members of the public paused to chat in wee groups outside the Laing Hall before they made their way home.
This observer has felt for quite some time that we will have to do more for ourselves because once the savage cuts begin to bite there will be less and less that the Highland Council will be able to do for us even if they want to. But then perhaps that’s the best way forward – the community doing it for itself? Nairn unleashed?
More from tonight’s meeting over the next few days.
Virtually all those present agreed to meet next Thursday to consider an issues paper, outline the community’s proposals for the site and possibilities for funding.
It was a meeting full of realism, those present well aware that there is little or no money to go around but positive about coming up with imaginative solutions to the problems. There was a good feeling in the air Gurnites, as the town’s Community Councillors and members of the public paused to chat in wee groups outside the Laing Hall before they made their way home.
This observer has felt for quite some time that we will have to do more for ourselves because once the savage cuts begin to bite there will be less and less that the Highland Council will be able to do for us even if they want to. But then perhaps that’s the best way forward – the community doing it for itself? Nairn unleashed?
More from tonight’s meeting over the next few days.
