WHAT WAS DISCUSSED AT THE ASSEMBLY?

• Need to improve the roads for the summer tourist season and winter months.

• This could be a venue for local crafts, groceries and has accommodation

• Develop housing for local people so that they don't have to move away. 
• There are no houses available, can't buy a plot of land.

• Develop a project to support all residents to heat their homes.

• Develop a big play park for local people and a destination for tourism.

• Bring the community together with one school

• Enable people to do small projects (eg flower boxes, events) with easy-access small grants - aggregated up these could make a big difference

• Pitch in Foyers or Gorthleck - play parks in Gorthleck and other communities - work with Fort Augustus on a swimming pool (needs to be viable).
• Much needed facilities especially for younger folk and primary schools. Encourage sport, health, wellbeing.  Featured strongly in community survey.
• Need to be safe to get to on foot or by bike.

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  Good quality broadband and mobile phone signal coverage across the whole community.
• Improving the condition of the road network as well as the experience of travelling through the community.
• Providing transport alternatives within the community (and to Inverness/Fort Augustus) for those who can't drive.
  
  

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  Work out a package of measures that can deliver good quality broadband for all (there isn't a one-size fits all solution). As different types of connection have different costs, providing free internet connections to all homes in the community could be offered.
• There is a big untapped potential for a community path network. Some of this can be improved with signposting, others with investment on the ground. A balance will need to be struck so that there is sustainable long term maintenance, and that the peaceful nature of the community (that makes it special) is maintained.
• Some sort of community minibus transport provision is required, this could be used to provide home delivery of orders from the shop in Foyers.

• The council apparently owns it but maintenance could be better - e.g. the mort house and the main gates which are taken off their hinges every time the council team comes to mow the grass.

• Mentioned throughout discussion.
• Idea of having "boots on the ground", able to enact ideas.
• Education
• Preservation

• Litter from campsite
• Noise
• Footpath erosion
• Proposed solutions: more bins (effectiveness?), community ranger, nature education

• Well maintained
• Accessible 
• Accurate maps of routes
• Better signage
• Interactive maps or signage
• Impact monitoring

• Footpaths
• Education
• "Woodland culture"
• Firewood

• Protect native species
• Remove invasive species (eg Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons)
• Infrastructure to enjoy nature (birdwatching hide)

• Fix Foyers Bridge
• Bombshelters
• Doocot

• "If we have to put up with the noise we might as well get something out of it"

• For both visitors and locals
• Might help with impact of tourism.
• Potentially facilitated by Community Ranger?

• Upgrade or rebuild homes that are cold, damp, poorly insulated, expensive to heat - need to be more eco-friendly, more comfortable and cheaper to run

• For young families, retiring estate workers, anybody local in need.  Retain as a community asset to be rented to others rather than sell off. 
• Build new high quality stock, zero carbon. 
• Different types of homes for different folk, young and old.

• Deliver those affordable rented homes for local folk in a sensitive, collaborative, community-led way.
• Use housing land at Inverfarigaig and Gorthleck, involving a community organisation to do it appropriately.
• eg Fort Augustus or Ardgeal at Kincraig 

• How do we get round resistance in Inverfarigaig where there is a gap site that could be developed for much needed local homes?
• Should houses be developed as individual isolated units like crofts were?
• Or small community schemes like the Ardgeal example?

• Small scale community owned power generation and storage - eg hydro, wind, solar, battery storage - cheaper and environmentally friendly - part of drive for a zero carbon community

• Professionalise the Trust with paid positions to help ensure project delivery.
• Consistent communications and to take pressure off volunteers who only have so much time to assist. 
• Trust has grown so big it has to become more 'formal' and business like.
• Use of technology and 'Covid lessons' to utilise technology to encourage participation between residents and Trust at meetings, more two way communication and discussion to improve levels of trust.
• Make sure everyone feels respected and understood.

• containing information about what different people and organisations in the community have to offer

• ... in the highlands and islands about how they organise themselves

• …where folk can meet and get on

• It was the same area as the Stratherrick and Foyers Community Council / Community Trust boundaries.

• Having investigated this carefully, we are unfortunately unable to publish the results in full because of the risk of breaching GDPR by revealing individual people's identity.  However carefully we redact information, we as outsiders may inadvertently reveal people's identities by not redacting enough information.  This is particularly an issue because of the small size of the communities in the area.  Our apologies.

THE NEXT SIX WEEKS

• See what ideas people have shared already.
• Give a thumbs-up to ideas you think would be good for the community.
• Add new ones that are missing.