Interesting to see a community lead planning submission for a new golf course at Coul Links. Whilst the Coul Links campaign is still being celebrated it looks like the community feels let down on the promises made by the environmental NGOs to have another crack themselves.

The lesson here for environmentalists - if a significant part of you campaign is based on promising socioeconomic benefit to communities from the environment, communities need to see that benefit or at the very least see an attempt at delivering it.

Different people look at Coul Links in different ways.

“If ever a place encapsulates sheer degenerative despair in a single miserable and depressing landscape, it must be Coul Links." https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/2037685/councillor-challenges-opponents-to-coul-links-to-provide-an-economic-alternative/

“It is a time for them to take the mature responsibility of their professional status and return here immediately to promote alternative and immediate socio-economic developments.

“It is time for such groups to put their money and expertise where their mouths are and deliver.”