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The Shapinsay development trust has created a community plan for the island and owns a wind turbine, which was erected in August 2011 after the community voted for its construction. According to the development trust, the turbine could earn more than £5 million during its 25-year lifetime.
The Rural Development Council was an advisory body to the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Richard Lochhead MSP. Its members include: Barbara Kelly; Donald MacRae of the Bank of Scotland; Stuart Housden, the Director of RSPB Scotland; Derek Logie of the Rural Housing Service; Liberal Democrat Councillor Alison ...
Development trust. Development trusts are organisations operating in the United Kingdom that are: community based, owned and led. engaged in the economic, environmental and social regeneration of a defined area or community. independent but seek to work in partnership with other private, voluntary, and public sector organisations.
Sanday ( / ˈsændiː /, Scots: Sandee) is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of 50.43 km 2 (19.5 sq mi), [4] it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands. [9] The main centres of population are Lady Village and Kettletoft.
It is a feature of Shapinsay that although many the larger Orcadian isles – and some of the smaller ones such as Papa Westray - have archaeological sites of world importance Shapinsay has a relative paucity of them. I can’t see anything new on Canmore or JSTOR that needs to be added.
Upload another image Balfour Castle (With Garden Gateway) Sound 59°01′54″N 2°55′00″W / 59.031704°N 2.916772°W / 59.031704; -2.916772 (Balfour Castle (With Garden Gateway) Sound) Category A 18615 Upload another image Balfour Castle Doocot, 59°01′47″N 2°54′36″W / 59.029614°N 2.910097°W / 59.029614; -2.910097 (Balfour Castle Doocot ...
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John Balfour (6 November 1750 – 15 October 1842) was a Scottish politician and a civil servant in the East India Company with connections to the Orcadian island of Shapinsay. Background [ edit ] John Balfour was the son of William Balfour, a factor to the Dundas family. [2]