Extraction of Peat Permitted Until 2024

Man of Action Posted on September 6, 2013 Posted in News

Pearson Planning, Chartered Surveyors has obtained planning permission allowing peat extraction on Nutberry Moss until the end of 2024. Councillors at Dumfries & Galloway Council did not discuss the proposal, agreeing without a vote, at Committee last month. The Moss supports jobs in the adjacent factory, including indirect employment in haulage contractors. There are regular campaigns by ill-informed eco-warriors to have peat extraction curtailed. Peat is extracted principally for commercial horticulture, including food production. Grow Your Own initiatives are being promoted, and there is a clear conflict between that positive stance and the objectives of the radical-left.

Edinburgh, 12 November, and Ivan McKee MSP announced to the national assembly that work on introducing a Community Infrstructure Levy in Scotland is “stopped”. Ivan ‘the terrible’ McKee recognised that the Levy was not welcome. There is a general acceptance, too, that much needed house building is being stalled by disproportionate obligation demands, and as Ivan says “unpredictable, costly and lengthy” planning application processes. McKee, branded ‘the terrible’ because of His handling of public finances north of the Cheviots, offers only one solution: higher planning fees! Genius! Increasing (again) authority revenues is not the solution. The vast majority of applications are determined by individual Officers (many of which have no professional qualifications) without the right of appeal. This needs to stop. SNP Government spending for 2023-2024 had a negative fiscal balance of -£22 billion. This must stop.