From the riverside Nairn to all in this world and may the next be good to you all - picture from Murd Dunbar

 

Planning application for Campervan Waste Disposal Point by the Maggot car park.

 Details on the Highland Council e-planning site here.

Christmas on the riverside - picture from Murd Dunbar

 

Scene up the Riverside by the Christmas tree that is so familiar with walkers at this time of the year. 

Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr nuair a thig i - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it comes - Have a great one Gurnshire

Bah humbug factor just about faded totally out and Christmas spirit kicking in. Another mad year nearly in the bag so here's hoping that simple things like group coffee and cake scenes at the alloments can return to something resembling their previous sense of carefree abandon (compared with plague life today). But hope has to be eternal and thoughts out there to everyone out there in Gurnshire and wishing you and our world a better time of it in 2022 when it comes. Have a great one folks

 

Happy Solstice Gurnshire!

 Not much light about immediately this morning but hey ho, that's midwinter for you.

Council’s Nairn finance office for sale soon?

Up for discussion at a recent meeting of the Highland Council were a whole host of properties that the Council are having a look at. This kind of thing goes with the name of “Redesign Board – Property Asset Rationalisation.”

One of our regular readers sent us a link to the relevant document and below is a screenshot of the information provided in the report which includes a building that many folk here will instantly recognise.

This observer wonders what will happen to the staff that work there if the building were to be eventually sold when the process eventually concludes? Would their jobs stay in Nairn? Is there room in the Courthouse for them all? Is Highland Council considering to continue with home-working after we get clear of the pandemic? It’s a magnificent building and hopefully it will have a happy future whatever the outcome.

 

Agus air a' Phrìomh Shràid an-diugh - and on the High Street today

Sandown - second sell-off consultation - Community Councils write joint letter outlining a wide range of concerns around the actions of Highland Council.

A copy of the joint letter from Nairn West and Suburban CC and Nairn River CC has been obtained by the Gurn - if you have been following the controversial issues surrounding the potential sale of the Sandown Lands for development then it is worth getting a cuppa or a dram and taking the following letter into account. If you are unable to enlarge the images then a copy of the letter can be read here. 

 The CCs talk about a "reference group" working with Highland Council. Does anyone know who makes up the membership of that reference group? Given this is the family silver we are talking about shouldn't everything be in the public domain? The Gurn is going to write to Highland Council and ask for details of the reference group and any minutes of their meetings. 

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Christmas trees display, raffle and charity collection in the former Big Bloomers shop on the High Street.

The collection at 47 High Street, old Big Bloomers shop, is in aid of 6 charities, Nairn Rotary, Nairn Museum, Marie Curie, Riding for the Disabled, Erskine and Keeping Nairn Colourful. There is a raffle too, which will be drawn on the 24^th. Runs to 28^th December, most days 11-4, except Sundays.

 

Lost Cat Mossside/Tradespark area

Caitlin's cat, Willow, has been missing in the Moss-side/Tradespark area for over a week now.

If you live in or around the Moss-side/Tradespark area, could you please take a moment to check your house, garages, sheds, greenhouses, conservatories, etc, in case she has got shut in. If you see her please pm  Viola Jan MacPhee or Caitlin Roberts on her Nairn Rocks Facebook  post.