Articles, Research & presentations
Friend of St. Fittick's Richard Caie has written about the history of the park for Torry Vision
"What links an ancient church, an ancient well and award-winning wetlands? The answer of course is St Fittick’s Park. Nestling between Balnagask, thnew harbour at Nigg Bay and Balnagask golf course, St Fittick’s Park is an ancient green space in Torry. Before the last Ice Age the River Dee would have flowed into the sea through here. Occasionally, Mesolithic flint tools are found by archaeologists and show the first signs of human presence here (about 7000 years ago)."
Read the full article here: http://www.shmu.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/magazines/torry_spring_2021_web.pdf
Susan Smith and Lesley-Anne Mulholland wrote the following article for Commonweal in October 2020
Friends of the Park members Susan Smith and Lesley-Anne Mulholland wrote the following article for Commonweal in October 2020. It chronicles the local anger that rose up when the news of the proposals that threatened the park:
"THAT ANNOUNCEMENT in the notices people received through their front doors in June that St Fittick’s Park and Doonies had been included in the Council’s Proposed Local Development Plan 2020 (PLDP) as opportunity sites (OP 56 and 61 respectively) for development, where an industrial development, an Energy Transition Zone (ETZ) would be favoured took the Torry community by angry surprise. Surprise ,as there had been no community consultation whatsoever regarding this.
They were part of the bid for a much larger area of greenspace/greenbelt land, submitted by the Harbour Board at the end of Consultation period for PLDP’s precursor. That was not open to public consultation."
Read the full article here: https://sourcenews.scot/hands-off-our-green-spaces-in-torry-a-just-or-unjust-transition/