As many of you know i applied for a farm start-up grant back in October. Well it took a while but we have now been awarded the grant which in a round-about way is also great news for Community Owned Moorings (COMs). Why? Well as Narrowboat Farm (NBF) is the… Continue reading
So our last interaction with SC was an email from us on the 16th January. Last week we received a response from Deborah Burns who is our main point of contact now. You can read and comment on the latest response at the end of this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vC5wjJC3fCMyWza9gqHW-4qeyTQkvhMIfl5u8_5I2lM/edit?usp=sharing But to cut… Continue reading
The process of negotiating terms under which we can trade as ‘Community Moorings Scotland’ (or something more snappy) began with their first edition on 5th August and has gone back to them with our edit of 5th October, then back to us with their edit of 10th November. Then they… Continue reading
OK, so how else was i going to make you open an update about paperwork! Click-bait ahoy!!! Does anybody have a particular penchant for paperwork? Please come forward! We have lots to do! If anyone can pop their heads up and say ‘i’ll help with that one’ that would be… Continue reading
Early this month myself (Iain Withers) and Alastair Martin met up with Steve Dunlop and Katie Hughes for what we thought may be a crunch meeting revealing the ‘sting in the tail’ of the so-far positive response from SC. I’m happy to report that the cautious optimism about SC’s support… Continue reading
After the recent lowland users meeting a group of us went to have a wee gander and get an update on progress at ‘the field’ or as Davie refers to it as the ‘Ponderosa’ which is a reference to this. I think Davie has grand ideas of the land!!! Anyway,… Continue reading
According to Scottish Canals the single most difficult part of establishing new moorings will be Scheduled Monument Consent (SMC) from Historic Environment Scotland (HES – they felt the need to put another word in the middle, they were called Historic Scotland). This is because seemingly all monuments that fall into this… Continue reading
So below you’ll find the text from the first outline proposal sent to Scottish Canals which should be negotiated through and hopefully come out with something that works for both parties (but especially for us). Katie Hughes requested a simple document that outlined the vision and the trading proposal, she… Continue reading
just a few bullet points to show how far we have got… – SC have agreed to support the project in principle: Katie Hughes, Richard Miller & Andrew Thin – There have been two positive meetings with SC directors to investigate the potential and identify potential sites – I have… Continue reading
