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The latest Transition Black Isle news can be found below.

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Surprise approval of Greenhill planning application

18 December 2017

On 28 November Highland Council North Planning committee approved an application for three warehouse/office buildings on a site behind the salt depot at Greenhill, near Tore.  The same site wa...
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Switch to energy-efficient street lighting

16 December 2017

In November David Reid drew the attention of TBI directors to a  campaign  to persuade local authorities to change to LED streetlights to save energy,  and noted that Highland C...
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Transition Network Survey reflects TBI concerns

16 November 2017

  Nicola Hillary, of the Transition Network, has sent an email with a summary analysis of replies received so far to a Survey TN set up last month "to get feedback from the mo...
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Kirkmichael Trust newsletter - a summary of the project

06 November 2017

Dr. Jim Mackay, Chairman of the Kirkmichael Trust, has prepared a major newsletter which he says  "tries to summarise everything that’s gone on in the project over the past year or so&...
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We are part of the rapidly expanding worldwide Transition Towns movement. The Black Isle is a peninsula of about 100 sq miles ENE of Inverness in Scotland, UK.