Culachy Wind Farm – preparing our planning application

We are moving closer towards the submission of our plans for Culachy Wind Farm.

We appreciate this has been slightly delayed. However, we anticipate an application will be submitted soon.

We will let the community know when we have submitted the plans and information will also be available at www.culachywind.co.uk.

As a reminder, our proposals will:

• Include eight wind turbines at 200m to tip

• Deliver 57MW of electricity

• Provide £280,000 of

Community Benefit Annually

Our plans have changed in response to local feedback and we are pleased with the response we have received so far.

Please get in touch if you have any questions. We look forward to working closely with the community and local stakeholders as our plans progress.

Iain Ferguson

While Edinburgh has its Festival and associated Fringe, three people from Kinlochleven set up their own arts event in the village with entertainment for all ages and interests over a week in July.

Drama worker, theatre maker and writer Ilona Munro, local teacher of drama and technical theatre Graeme Martin and MC and sound technician with a background in radio David Ogg, each passionate about arts in Lochaber, put together the programme, which included the debut performance of the play ‘Lament’.

Based on a previous production by Ilona “Massacre of Glencoe’ in the 2007 Highland Year of Culture, which had a 120-strong cast, “Lament” shows life from the viewpoint of a MacDonald woman and