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THERE is often a fine balance to be struck when it comes to the consideration of planning applications, perhaps especially in remote and rural scenic locations. So it is perfectly understandable that controversy has reared its head over the application by Black Corries Estate to create a three-storey, 60-bedroom hotel on a site at Glencoe.
As we report on the front page today, the company originally bought the hotel with planning permission for changes which included a single-storey extension with turf roof. Those plans were scrapped as commercially unviable. And it should come as little surprise that objections have been lodged by such august bodies at the John Muir Trust and the National Trust for Scotland (NTS).