NORTH SKYE 2017-2018

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APPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR TWO 'ORGANIC' SALMON FARMS
OFF THE NORTH-EAST COAST OF THE ISLE OF SKYE BY ORGANIC SEA HARVEST LTD.

PUBLIC CONSULTATION DEADLINE 22 DECEMBER 2017
but don't let that put you off participating late ...

17/04735/FUL | Marine Fish Farm - Atlantic Salmon: New site comprising of 12 x 120m circumference
circular cages an 80m mooring grid with feed barge | Land 1300M East Of Tote Scorrybreck Portree

17/04749/FUL | New Fish Farm for Atlantic Salmon consisting of 12x120m circumference circular cages in
an 80m mooring grid with associated feed barge | Site 1335M East Of Seaforth 9 Culnacnock Isle Of Skye

EACH CONSULTATION REQUIRES ITS OWN COMMENT SUBMISSION, FOR OR AGAINST

Option 1. SUBMIT A COMMENT ONLINE: Google WAM HIGHLAND, go to simple search and enter the appropriate application code (above). Click on the Comments tab, register, log in and fill in the form. Suitable for a consise comment. Your comment will appear under the comments tab on the planning website.

Option 2. SUBMIT A COMMENT LETTER BY POST: Send to: ePlanning Centre, F.A.O. Dr Shona Turnbull, Case officer, aquaculture, The Highland Council, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness IV3 5NX. Your personal details will be redacted before the PDF is uploaded on the planning website.

Option 3. SUBMIT A COMMENT LETTER ONLINE: Convert your letter into a PDF (a Word doc will do) and an email attachment to: eplanning@highland.gov.uk. Suitable for a detailed comment in which formatting is important. Your personal details will be redacted before the PDF is uploaded on the planning website.

TO READ THE APPLICATION DOCUMENTS: Either 1. Click on either application code (above) Or 2. Google WAM HIGHLAND, go to simple search and enter the appropriate application code. Then click on the Documents tab. Unless you've done this before it's now that the going gets tough, but as comment letters accumulate, you can look at what other people have written, under either Comments or Documents tabs.

Go to: INFORMATION, SUMMARIES & DOWNLOADS
Go to: ORGANIC SALMON FARMING?
Go to: ORGANIC? THE REGULATORS
Go to: ORGANIC? WHAT ABOUT SEA LICE?
Go to: SALMON FARMING ‘MORTS’
Go to: THE APPLICANT ON THE INTERNET
Go to: SKYE FISH FARMS, SOUTH & NORTH: BACKGROUND HISTORY
Go to: POLLUTION & PESTS (with references)

The two sites as they are today, before fish farms.
Left: Culnacnoc - Right: Scorrybreck (AKA Invertote)

"Ralph Storer's book 50 Best Routes on Skye and Raasay gives details of walks in
both directions. Brother's Point to the North and Eaglais Bhreuach to the South."

ALSO Note that there is a large, popular layby and picnic spot on the A855 where people park to walk the short path to the Invertote viewpoint (below). It's a routine stop for Rabbie's, other frequent tour buses and hundreds of camper vans and cars. If tourism is important to Skye, this is certainly worthy of protection from visual monstrosities.