Hello,
I'm a man, but Iwould like to know whether groups of women exist
somewhere in order to talk about a sustainable development of our
planet. Groups of women seem to be important because your sensibility
towards numerous serious questions, is different of men's perception.
Ecology for exemple. Women seem to feel the most important issues
better than men.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards.
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Bertrand Maillard
3, Rue Schwendi
67000 STRASBOURG
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 15 06:06:07 1997
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 06:06:04 -0600 (MDT)
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From: "Pamela S. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call for help!
Help! Cellphone mast in back garden
I am posting this call for help on behalf of friends who live near the
breathtakingly beautiful Glen Affric wilderness area in the Scottish
Highlands.
They are extremely upset, having just learned that a planning application
(Planning Application No: IN/1997/424) has been submitted to the local
Highland Council for UK cellular phone company, Cellnet, to site a massive
22 metre mast at Erchless Forest Cottage, by Struy, Inverness-shire.
There are very few homes in the area, and the mast would tower over the
entire locale, sticking out like a sore thumb and set in a field beside the
small road that ultimately leads into Glen Affric.
It appears that this development would contravene the local structure plan
for the area (Strathglass) and so my friends intend to object to Highland
Council for reasons of loss of amenity to an area of outstanding natural
beauty which attracts visitors from all over the world.
There are so few people in the area that they need outside help to get
their objections across. If you feel that you could support them and
would be writing from outside the Strathglass area, could you please write
that this erosion of the area's natural beauty would deter you from coming
as a visitor or tourist to the area. Tourism makes a vitally important
contribution to the local economy, and the potential loss of tourism
revenue is viewed as a serious matter.
There is already substantial clear felling of the forest happening in the
area - which has left many people reeling - and so my friends are
desperately keen for like-minded people who want to protect Scotland's
fast-eroding areas of natural beauty to register their objections with
Highland Council.
However emotive you feel about the chopping down of trees, the felling of
trees is NOT considered a planning matter, whereas the loss of amenity is,
so could you please register your objection on these grounds? To date, the
loss of amenity is the only legally acceptable objection which the group
has been able to identify.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for additional grounds, these would
be most gratefully received. Also any ideas/addresses for additional
newsgroups
and/or web sites where I could post this 'call for help' - it's already on
'Scot Environment' and 'Scot Announce', but not 'UK Environment' as I can't
seem to gain access to that last one.
If you feel that you can support the group, could you please write to
register your objections with the following two gentlemen:
Mr. George Boyd Mr. Bill Hepburn
Inverness Manager Principal Planner
Planning Services Planning Services CORE
1-3 Church Street Highland Council Headquarters
Inverness Glenurquhart Road
IV1 1DY Inverness
Tel: +44 (0)1463 724483 Tel: +44 (0)1463 239111
Fax: +44 (0)1463 715939 Fax: +44 (0)1463 702298
Many many thanks to anybody who can help!
Pamela Bailey
Glasgow, Scotland
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