Planning Info Round-up; Highlands and Islands Region

A quick round up of other parties putting forward candidates in the Highlands and Islands Region; it seems that most of the web based information provided by all the parties listed below is light on specific detail regarding planning issues. Please feel free to point me in the direction of more info.

• All Scotland Pensioners Party ; Scottish Senior Citizens Party click here

• Ban Bankers Bonuses, details here The Objectives of the Party are to: Protect our communities from the irresponsible behaviour of Banks, the Financial Sector, Political Parties and other powerful organisations.

• BNP Scottish Manifesto here

Having difficult electronic problems cutting and pasting sections out, information best accessed directly from the manifesto at the link above; planning related statements are in a separate section within the manifesto but also some statements in others sections also. It is not too long so reasonably easy to read through quickly.

• Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship"

Scottish Christian Party details here and here; campaign leaflet with main policies and a few statement listed here. Among the statements in a, 'What People are saying' section on the front of the SCP campaign leaflet are:

“Put the Inverness Trunk Link Road up the agenda along with the canal and river Ness
crossing.”

“Develop the transport infra-structure of the north and western Highlands and Islands.”

“Support a new container transhipment hub port at Scapa Flow, increase trading
north to south, and double Scotland’s trade.”

(The link from the leaflet to the manifesto seems to be broken)

• Scottish Socialist Party link here

• Socialist Labour Party link here

• Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement web pages here

• The Liberal Party web pages here

• UKIP's reference to planning matters; UKIP manifesto web page here:

Subject all wind-farms to democratic planning procedures. Owners of existing wind-farms rejected by planning committees will pull them down at their own expense.

Make carriageway doubling on the A9 from Perth to Inverness a priority.