Assault onPC during brawl
and a hotel which support the community’s aspiration of making Callander an exemplar walking and cycling town.
•Replacing the pedestrian bridge, building a new road bridge and associated road improvements.
Around 30 homes are proposed for the Churchfields site behind McLaren High School, while around 90 homes plus a 60-bed hotel, riverside park and walk and community events space have been earmarked for Claish Farm stretching the outskirts of the same area.
The plan sets out an overall annual target to deliver 75 new homes each year across the entire National Park area to sustain communities and meet demand for smaller, more modest sized and affordable homes for young people, families and older people. It also identifies a number of sites for tourism and leisure development that the park authority says will help grow and enhance the quality of the park as a visitor destination.
Whilst Callander, Arrochar and Balloch are expected to see the biggest change over the next 20 years, the plan also identifies development opportunities in the park’s smaller villages in a bid to support their long term sustainability.
LLTNPA chief executive Gordon Watson said: “The National Park is an amazing place and a special landscape with so much to offer and LIVE Park sets out the opportunities for it to continue to thrive and develop sensitively as a place for people to live, invest, visit and experience over the next 10 years.
“We’ve worked really closely with people and organisations from across the park to find out how they want to see that happen. I’m delighted we can now adopt the plan and look forward to seeing how the park develops over the next decade.”
Stuart Mearns, head of rural development and planning at the National Park, said: “We are very happy that the plan is now adopted. It provides a firm foundation to help attract and guide inward investment, helping to grow the rural economy and enhance the park’s towns and villages.
“We are already seeing an increase in development activity and developer interest in key locations including Callander and Balloch as well as some of our smaller communities. Strong partnership working established between landowners, developers, public agencies and communities during the process to prepare the plan has been central to achieving this and our focus next year will be to use the plan as the basis for securing continued investment in the National Park.”
More details at www. ourlivepark.com A man who assaulted a police officer after becoming involved in a brawl outside a house in Plean has been hit in the pocket.
Graham White, 49, shouted, swore and challenged others to fight during a disturbance involving more than a dozen people at Carbrook Drive on September 11. He then assaulted a police constable by pushing him on the body.
Fiscal depute Lindsey Brooks told Stirling Sheriff Court this week that shortly after midnight police received reports of a disturbance at the address.
When they arrived they saw that there were 13 people outside the property shouting and swearing, and engaging in what appeared to be a fight.
Police requested additional support and began separating the crowd. While they were doing that they heard White shouting and swearing. He then pushed an officer on the body and was arrested.
The court heard that he had pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening and abusive manner, and assaulting a police constable, by letter but had made no explanation for his behaviour.
When asked by Sheriff William Gilchrist why he had acted in such a manner, White, who was appearing without a solicitor, said: “I can’t remember much of the night. I was drunk but I think there was an argument out on the street.”
White, of Brand Street in Glasgow, explained that he couldn’t recall the cause of the fight and was in a position to pay a financial penalty as punishment for his actions.
Fining him a sum of £300, Sheriff Gilchrist said: “As you pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity I am going to discount the fine from £450.”