Scottish Peak Spared Mast Farce

Stac Pollaidh, a small but feisty Scottish mountain near Ullapool - map - has been spared the indignity of having a 26-foot communications mast erected on its flanks.

The mast was planned by a Berkshire-based company, 02 Airwave, and caused a public outcry with locals and walkers enraged at the insensitive nature of the site, which is within e Inverpolly Special Area of Conservation.

Instead the company intends to use an alternative site set among trees with the six-metre antenna camouflaged with timber cladding. That'll work then...

Hacked off Ullapool Jean Urquhart is quoted as saying that the incident is tyypical of southern companies assuming that the highlands are an uninhabited wilderness and they can do whatever they want: "This is a problem in the Highlands all the time. There's an assumption down south that there's nobody living here and that everything will be OK."

For the full story, see The Scotsman web site.

More about Stac Pollaidh on Undiscovered Scotland.