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Power Shift – is the planning system sidelining communities?

14/06/2025 / Leave a Comment / By Silvia Muras

Is the current planning system for renewables sidelining communities? The growing amount, complexity, increasing fast pace of the process, and the way decisions on applications […]

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Wildlife & Nature

New year, new ideas for growth

Planet Sutherland, encouraging everyone to start growing their own food It’s difficult to think about global warming when we’re knee deep in snow as I

From the Editor

Community building

Here’s to everyone finding time for togetherness  and connection over this festive break Our cover features Duncan MacLeod, to celebrate his recent success at the

Poems

House Fire

IT is now nearly 2026. Next year (2027) it will be fifty years since my rebuilt croft house on the west coast was burned to the ground

Opinion

Who benefits from the  resources of a place?

Resistance to renewables will continue to grow unless the communities hosting these projects can retain a fair share of value. By Tom Wills

Heritage

Capturing memories at Croick Church

Visitors from near and far have signed the visitor books at Croick Church, leaving behind tens of thousands of handwritten entries