CULLODEN HOUSING APPEAL

CAMPAIGNERS are making a last-ditch effort to stop the building of homes at the Culloden battlefield site.

The Historians Committee on Culloden are calling on the Scottish Government to step in following claims officials approved planning permission after being given incorrect information. A plan was rejected in 2014 by councillors, only to be given permission by a Scottish Government reporter.

After that failed, Kirkwood Homes submitted a separate application for 16 houses at nearby Viewhill Farm.

A group spokesman said: “Although geography of the battle was known by experts, including Historic Scotland research, information supplied by Historic Scotland to the Government Reporter when he made his decision in favour of the development at Viewhill reflected none of this knowledge.”