Annual General Meeting Wednesday, 1 December 2021 at 7 pm Talla Nan Ròs, King Street, Kingussie Agenda: Apologies. Minutes of the 15th AGM (24 March 2021). Chairman’s Report (this will be an edited transcript of the meeting). To receive and if approved, adopt the Financial Report. To appoint Goldwells as the independent Accountant. To elect and […]
Following on from my “August update”, I can now confirm that the Golf Course Circular path has now been upgraded as far as the “four-ways junction”. The before and after improvement is easily seen by moving the slider in the image below. Hopefully we’ve seen the last of the mud in this particular section! The
September was also a relatively dry month and the electrical output generated was less than half of the average for that month. The improvement arising from the new Coanda screen could not be judged until wet weather returned at the end of the month. Rainy days have continued through October and the new screen sections
Following a proposal from KCDC Directors to acquire land to extend the path network from the Hydro bridge toward the Pitmain Estate gates, a resolution to that effect was put to the KCDC membership. An online survey of the membership agreed that the proposal should go ahead and the resolution was duly passed. This result
The Coanda screen across the weir has now had 7 years of operation. In 2014 Hurricane Bertha caused some damage that was not obvious at the time by flattening some of the curved stainless steel plates at the top of the screen. This meant that some of the water spilled over the weir without going
For the past couple months we’ve been working away at the new section of path on the Golf Course Circular. The fine weather has certainly helped with progress and the new section of path is complete – we just have to build a new gate in the estate deer fence before we can open it
So nice to see the gardens being used as intended – and the sun is shining!
The final report for the Gynack Gardens Project has been completed and submitted to The Highland Council and Sustrans. A copy is shown below or can be downloaded in full here:
In June we continued with the work on the Creag Bheag path – re-building, and in some instances, re-routing the path to try to avoid persistently muddy areas. This effort was matched with fine weather and again aided by willing hands from the KHS Rural Skills students. The target was always to join the new
We returned to Creag Bheag this month to complete the work we started last year. The major task was to transport surfacing material from the “drop” at Tait’s Brae up to the site – no mean feat! This meant bagging the material into sacks, loading the sacks into the power barrow, “driving” the barrow up
