Campaigners bid to halt battlefield homes plan

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

The Historians Committee On Culloden is calling on the Scottish Government to intervene following claims officials approved planning permis- sion after being given incorrect information.

A plan to build homes in the area was rejected in 2014 by Highland councillors, only to then be given permission by a Scottish Government reporter.

After that plan failed to come to fruition, Kirkwood Homes submitted a separate application for 16 homes at nearby Viewhill Farm. Historians feel the process must be reviewed because they claim information given to the Government Reporter for the 2014 application was inaccurate.

A spokesman for the group said: “There is a great deal of misinformation circulated about the Battle of Culloden Moor on 16 April, 1746, not the least of which involves where it took place. It has been well established by historians and archaeologists for some years that the ground of conflict reached far north of B9006.”

The dispute centres on whether the development’s location is atop an area that should be conserved due to its historical significance. The government said it would not comment on a live application.