{"id":33961,"date":"2022-08-02T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33961"},"modified":"2022-08-02T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:32:18","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-battlefield-doorstep-nts-unaware-pp-needed-for-culloden-storage-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33961","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (battlefield) doorstep\u2019: NTS \u2018unaware\u2019 PP needed for Culloden storage units"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=28775562\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33962\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/320px-Culloden_Battlefield_Memorial_Cairn_MIke_Peel_CommonsWikimedia-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has submitted a retrospective planning application for five storage units at the Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, while the planning application says that previous staff were \u2018unaware\u2019 that it needed planning permission (PP), reports <em>The Press and Journal.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: By Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=28775562<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">.. NTS has added timber cladding to the front and sides to match the visitor centre\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Press and Journal<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 According to site drawings, NTS has installed five steel storage units at the private service yard beside the centre.<\/p>\n<p>The largest is 12 metres (40 ft) long in blue steel. NTS has added timber cladding to the front and sides to match the visitor centre\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Raoul Curtis-Machin, Culloden operations manager, explained: \u201cWe got the shipping containers to go in the service yard a few years ago to meet the growing needs of the business and we didn\u2019t realise at the time that we needed planning permission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Inverness councillor Ken Gowans expressed shock at the oversight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that every development in the proximity of Culloden Battlefield has been extremely contentious and high profile, I am bewildered how NTS could imagine they would not need planning permission to build on the battlefield itself,\u201d.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Mr Curtis-Machin said NTS will work with the council on this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have tried to make them fit in sensitively with the existing visitor centre and the service yard by cladding them with the same local timber and painting them to fit in with the centre walls,\u201d he said\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/news\/highlands-islands\/4427238\/national-trust-unaware-it-needed-planning-permission-for-culloden-battlefield-storage-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has submitted a retrospective planning application for five storage units at the Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, while the planning application says that previous staff were \u2018unaware\u2019 that it needed planning permission (PP), reports The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33963,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33961\/revisions\/33963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}