breaking news from Scotland the local
council in Inverness have approved the
design and build the planning permission
for 16 homes on the culloden battlefield
this is an important one a different
vlog for what I'm usually doing but I
think it's really important to talk
about this hello everybody how are you
doing welcome to the vlog my name is
Sean a youtuber from Edinburgh in
Scotland I took a bit Scottish culture I
talk about travel all that Kenna stuff
and today we're talking about culloden
battlefield this is an important one
this has been in the news a lot over the
last year there have been planning
applications submitted to the local
council up in the highlands over the
last couple of years for a housing
project very close to the culloden
battlefield in fact four hundred yards
away from the coordinates enter the
planning application is submitted by a
group called Kirkwood homes who have
tried several different designs on the
site at View Hill farm and claudemir and
this development actually sits within
the Culloden Moor Conservation Area so
within the battlefield range what this
essentially boils down to is the site in
question 400 meters away from the
visitor center at culloden battlefield
was it on a significant site for the
battles or not this is basically what
the debate boils down to because if you
go into the visitor centre at Culloden
and if you read all the pamphlets they
are they have very clear battle lines
and it seems to be in a very small area
I didn't previously know the
significance of the klodin battle until
watching Outlander and being inspired to
actually travel up there myself and see
it from onto ice and actually did a vlog
on this channel all about my experience
of cod and go and check it out the link
is above
basically each of these lumps of Earth
behind me the moans are mass graves of
hundreds and hundreds of Klansmen who
died here it is such an important area
and Scotland's history one of the most
significant bowels you could see the
outcome of which changed the Scottish
Highlands forever and also dictated the
way which Scotland would ultimately go
politically it was a really important
event
I haven't commented on the colada and
legal case up until now because I
haven't understood enough about it I
wanted to read up more and I wanted to
just understand what was going on but
listen just slightly off topic for a
second today I actually went to another
battlefield from the same era and the
same armies involved and it was actually
quite shocking to see the development
that has taken place on the battlefield
over the course of like a hundred years
at sea which has basically rendered that
battlefield undistinguished unmarked and
basically built all over the top of the
Ruby i vlog about that coming up on this
channel the next few days but the
difference between that battlefield and
Culloden is stark claudin is very much
preserved in its natural state as to how
it was pretty much in the day of the
battle there are a few obviously
significant differences mainly the
benign or sexual what I think it is runs
right through me through but apart from
that and a couple of farms dotted around
there's very very little development and
the very close vicinity and when I was
at there's battlefield today which I
will talk about in tomorrow's vlog it
just felt like such a shame that the
place had been developed so much that it
was just a piece of farmland literally
so all I kept thinking to myself was I
hope Claude and doesn't never ever get
to this stage and I guess that is a
point people are campaigning to stop
this because it only just takes a little
bit of development within the area and
it might not seem significant but one
bit of development over time leads to
another better development and then
another bit of development and then what
happens over time over a large passage
of time as a police gets totally
developed like this other battlefield
that I was at today and it becomes non
distinguishable and remember these are
burial sites so people from both sides
of that Civil War the Jacobites Bonnie
Prince Charlie mostly Highlanders the
British forces which included soldiers
from pretty much all over the UK
including Scotland thousands and
thousands of men died on the spot and
were buried there it is
a secret spot and when I was walking
through there on my trip like it just
felt really special that is the one
thing I could say about it it was so
easy so quiet there was just something
about it I can't quite put my finger on
it but culloden battlefield there's
something absolutely secret about it you
cannot feel it until you've actually
went there and walked through the site
yourself there are something about it
it's IDI I can't put my finger on it you
certainly feel like there are lost souls
among you that sounds very spiritual and
a bit mad but like everybody who goes
there says the same thing like I'm
getting goose bumps just talking about
it my trip was that impactful in my life
but they are planning on developing it
and it has been fought over the last
year and I've been kicked into the long
grass a few times seemingly campaigners
have done a really good job of pushing
it back and pushing it back but today
the final judgement was made by the
counselors and they approved the
building site
Kirkwood homes basically had to go back
to them with revised drawings which
would be more in keeping with the site
that was their instructions and then
they submitted another set of
applications which were decided on today
and had been given the green light to go
ahead and I think there's one really
important thing missing here and this is
what the campaigners are saying db9 or
sex Road which runs through the
battlefield for all that most people can
see especially when you go through the
tour of the area the bowel took place in
that field in the mirror that is visible
and is marked out as a battlefield but
they know as a fact that the battle
actually took place on a much larger
scale than just that little small area
of grass to the north of the road
especially there was fight in there
which is not part of the official kind
of tour guide of the battlefield but
they know there was fighting that took
place there and what the campaigners
have been asking for is someone to step
in and say listen before these
developments go ahead there must be
archaeological archaeological surveys to
take place on the site because we
believe there was fighting there and men
died on that site that seems like an
absolutely sensible thing to me to have
been done but it's too late now the
council has approved that they're given
the greenlight so it can go ahead the
many campaigners who fought for this
over a number of months and years it
looks likely that they have lost this
potentially forever unless someone very
senior in the Scottish government steps
in they're planning on building modern
homes houses on the site surely before
that happens before foundations which go
down really deep before that can happen
they must
have to look into the groans and just to
establish what kind of fighting took
place there if anybody died there they
will know instantly from musket balls or
anything they also find in the area if
there is anything actually to the claims
that the fighting actually took place on
those grounds I'm not sure the
counselors have the required expertise
to really make a proper judgment on this
please correct me if I'm wrong but like
I think in this whole debate there seems
to have been a lot of bluster and that
is basically why I've not really
commented on this story up until now
like they just haven't been enough facts
there seems to be a lot of weight and
expertise behind the fact that the
battle took place on a much larger scale
I would just like that to be totally
investigated by the Scottish Government
I think that is absolutely necessary now
and almost of local issues in terms of
housing are authorized in large part by
local councils in Scotland but surely
the government has its own planning
departments surely it has overall say on
such matters surely it can intervene
just to ask questions I don't think
we've heard the last of this case I
think people will fight it tooth and
nail even if they have to physically go
and tie themselves to the post at
Culloden to stop it going ahead anyway
guys I'd love to know your thoughts
about this whole episode what do you
think about the culloden battlefield
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