Former Grazings Committee members in Mangersta, Lewis, have expressed “astonishment at the continuing unprofessional and misleading behaviour" of the Crofting Commission following a statement by the body issued today.
Mangersta is one of two crofting villages in Lewis where the Grazings Committee has been dismissed by the Commission over management issues.
Crofting law expert, Brian Inkster, has condemned the Commission’s actions as both “unreasonable” and “illegal.”
In a statement, the former grazings committee members said: “The commission just
blunders on. We were astonished to see from their website that they had ‘arranged
to meet with the shareholders’ in both Upper Coll and Mangersta grazings in mid-
Crofting Commission "blunders on"
4 May 2016
“We wish it to be known that we have heard absolutely nothing about any meeting, far less agreed to participate in it.
"If and when the commission proposes a meeting, we will take legal advice on the appropriateness of attending.
“We can only express astonishment at the continuing unprofessional and misleading behaviour of the Crofting Commission.
"One would have thought that the basic courtesy of consulting about a possible meeting and the form it might take would not have been beyond them, before making a public announcement about a meeting nobody else knows anything about.”