Leave Our Hills Alone has received national media attention, with the Scottish Daily Express reporting on our community campaign and the determination of local people to protect the Glencairn landscape from inappropriate industrial-scale energy development.

The coverage highlights an issue increasingly facing rural communities across Scotland: local people finding themselves up against major energy developers proposing infrastructure that could fundamentally change the landscapes in which people live, work and visit.

For us, this has never simply been about opposing renewable energy. It is about ensuring that developments are appropriately located, properly scrutinised and assessed against their genuine environmental, landscape and community impacts.

What began as concern within the community has developed into an organised campaign, with local people coming together to examine the proposals, understand the potential impacts and ensure that Glencairn has a strong and informed voice throughout the process.

National media coverage helps bring wider attention to what communities such as ours are facing, but our campaign remains firmly rooted in the people and landscape of Glencairn.

Large energy companies may have substantial financial resources, professional consultants and experienced development teams behind them. Communities, however, have the right to scrutinise what is being proposed, challenge the evidence presented and participate fully in decisions that could permanently affect the places they call home.

Leave Our Hills Alone will continue to do exactly that.

Our hills are not simply empty spaces on a developer’s map. They are our landscape, our environment and our home.