Minutes of Ordinary Public Meeting 19th Jan 2022 (online)
Minutes of Ordinary Public Meeting 16 Feb 2022 (online)
Minutes of Ordinary Public Meeting 16 March 2022 (online)
Minute of Special Meeting 30 March 2022 (online) to coopt new members
Minute of Wednesday 20th April 2022 (online)
Minute of Wednesday 18th May 2022 ( online)
Minute of Wednesday 22 June 2022 (online) Ordinary Meeting
AGM Minute 22 June 2022 to be published at next AGM
Minute of Wednesday 21st September 2022 (deferred a week due to Queen’s death)
Minute of 19th October, 2022
Upcoming NRCC meetings – normally middle Wednesday of month at 7pm.
Additional public meetings may be scheduled around key topics
For 2023 provisional dates are as follows:
23 January 2023 (jointly with Nairn West and Suburban CC)
22 February, 22 March, 19 April, 17 May, 21 June
Community Councils are required to hold at least 7 meetings per year including our AGM. Despite COVID restrictions 2021 was our busiest year ever with 19 public meetings hosted
Agendas for NRCC public meetings are normally notified in public 7 days in advance on the Castle Square Noticeboard, and promoted via local social media including this website.
We encourage local residents to attend our public meetings, to have their say, and to listen and learn about how community councils work and the issues which matter to Nairn.
New community council volunteers are always welcome.
All current community councillors in Highland will step down at the end of 2023 -so locals with spare time and energy to volunteer for your community, (we don’t do this for money!) are encouraged to get involved and stand for election for the next 4 years from 2024
In the meantime we have one vacancy remaining for a coopted member, and are always keen to welcome new (non voting) ‘Associate’ members from local interest groups and all neighbourhoods across the Nairn River community ( click to see map) to contribute local views and information at our public meetings.
With a new Academy on the way, we would particularly like to hear from young people and parents of school age children.
As we get back to business post COVID we welcome Nairn’s 4 new Highland Councillors, elected in May 2022, as ex officio CC members, to all our public meetings to keep local residents up to speed with Council matters, and to hear about the issues that matter to the local community.
We welcome the commitment of the newly elected Chair of the Nairn and Cawdor Ward, Highland Councillor Michael Green, who communicated at the recent meeting of Nairn West and Suburban CC to working with his Ward team of 3 colleagues Cllrs Laurie Fraser, Barbara Jarvie, Paul Oldham and community representatives to deliver on the two following priority actions:
1/to pilot a new local body to oversee management of Nairn’s Common Good Assets
2/to collaborate on community led development of a Local Place Plan
This is badly needed to help target more public investment in Nairn’s overstretched infrastructure (including securing an A96 bypass and improving amenities and public services such as healthcare, education and transport for both locals and visitors).
It will also protect Nairn’s precious natural environment by clarifying ‘green’ priorities for the town and surrounding areas, including sustainable local job creation and a low carbon ‘circular’ economy, and prioritising regeneration of existing town centre buildings over out of town newbuild in line with the new Scottish Planning Framework 4.
Nairn River Community Council