Your views: School football club seeking solutions after rent rise

An Inverness school football club was to lobby councillors as it faces a £6000 charge to use facilities – and more reaction in a Nairnshire beach access row.

Cradlehall Primary School Football Club is among youth organisations across the region facing a hike in rents for premises owned by Highland Council which has raised prices.

“I wonder how many councillors who voted to introduce these charges were re-elected. It is terrible to see another service cutting, price increasing, voluntary sector damaging budget left behind by the outgoing mob in order to demoralise our incoming councillors.” – Gerry Reynolds MSc

“Crazy. Our national sport and our kids can’t even play for free. Not just in Inverness or Scotland but across the whole UK. In other countries, its all free for kids, regardless of which sport they play. It encourages healthy living, which in turn produces healthy lives, which in turn reduces spiralling healthcare costs as these kids turn into adults. Very short-sighted.” – Richie Cameron

Legal action could be taken in Nairnshire beach row

Highland Council said it will consider legal action against the owners of the Port of Ardersier if they fail to meet the terms of land reform laws after an Access Management Plan (AMP) is approved for a peninsula popular with walkers and others opposite the former oil platform construction yard. The site owners caused an outcry when they erected a fence to block access to the peninsula, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

“The Highland Council have an astonishing record for non-enforcement of any kind from protected species breaches, roadside fence heights, habitat destruction, non-compliance with granted planning permission and the rest. It would seem council policy and government legislation are made from rubber sometimes to suit their needs? As far as big business not respecting legislation regarding the fence, this is a indicator of where the company will travel in the future as far as respect for public rights, I guess?” – Adrian Ellis, Kirkhill

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