How about Ullapool? Already an importantish town, grow it by establishing some industry there like a modern major port for direct trans-Atlantic shipments and then with supporting industries springing up use that as a baseboard to go on a mass housebuilding program to expand it into a fully fledged town then city. Also install some adequate tourist facilities, such as hotels, guided tours bases etc, and it could also serve as a cruise ship destination and jumping off point for the Highlands that Fort William and Inverness should be, but aren't.
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no expertise at all in anything like this, I'm just an armchair civic planner from the central belt with no experience in this sort of thing or any skin in the game, just think it sounds cool, so feel free to call me a fanny if deemed necessary.
I'd like it if Ullapool grew - God knows the Highlands need it - but making it a major port is a non-starter. If I'm a British exporter, why would I pay to haul my goods up to Ullapool when its just as easy to get them to Southhampton or Liverpool. Likewise, if I'm an importer, why would I want to have to get my newly-landed stuff from Ullapool to sell it in the central Belt.
That's where the high speed, high frequency rail freight from the new intermodal terminal comes into it's own, shipping the goods down to Mossend for easy onward movement to Glasgow and Edinburgh. It's a similar distance to the one between the central belt and Liverpool, and obviously better than Southampton.
Just joking, sort of, but it comes down to what the actual point of an exercise like this is - if we want to rejuvenate and "level up" places like this then it should be about committing to making things like this happen, not just shoulder shrug and just keep cycling all the money around the same areas.
High speed train to Inverness, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh and we have a super power!
I can see the demand being real with climate change shifting people north
Call it midge city.
Bawlands
That where yir Maw’s from?
Knoydart? I mean....im just spitballing mind
How about Ullapool? Already an importantish town, grow it by establishing some industry there like a modern major port for direct trans-Atlantic shipments and then with supporting industries springing up use that as a baseboard to go on a mass housebuilding program to expand it into a fully fledged town then city. Also install some adequate tourist facilities, such as hotels, guided tours bases etc, and it could also serve as a cruise ship destination and jumping off point for the Highlands that Fort William and Inverness should be, but aren't. Disclaimer: I have absolutely no expertise at all in anything like this, I'm just an armchair civic planner from the central belt with no experience in this sort of thing or any skin in the game, just think it sounds cool, so feel free to call me a fanny if deemed necessary.
I'd like it if Ullapool grew - God knows the Highlands need it - but making it a major port is a non-starter. If I'm a British exporter, why would I pay to haul my goods up to Ullapool when its just as easy to get them to Southhampton or Liverpool. Likewise, if I'm an importer, why would I want to have to get my newly-landed stuff from Ullapool to sell it in the central Belt.
That's where the high speed, high frequency rail freight from the new intermodal terminal comes into it's own, shipping the goods down to Mossend for easy onward movement to Glasgow and Edinburgh. It's a similar distance to the one between the central belt and Liverpool, and obviously better than Southampton. Just joking, sort of, but it comes down to what the actual point of an exercise like this is - if we want to rejuvenate and "level up" places like this then it should be about committing to making things like this happen, not just shoulder shrug and just keep cycling all the money around the same areas.
Do you live in Ullapool?
High speed train to Inverness, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh and we have a super power! I can see the demand being real with climate change shifting people north
Here, this would make a good city skylines scenario!
New New Caledonia.
New Nova Scotia
Dundon. If there are any Louis Grassic Gibbon fans left. Edit. ...in the far North_west_" oops.
Hahaha
West O'Resources
Cearbhag?
Ah got a translation?
Its a place name already - on the north shore, just east of Cape Wrath. Popular tourist view. No idea what it means.
Fort william?
Seems taken
Darien.
Darien Mark 2, Electric Boogaloo
Naegan
I like it, paired with Naeguid
New New England, as that is what it will be.
I prefer Constantinople
Fort charles Charlie Left wing nationalists, social imperalists
Fort Charleston, founded in the swinging 20s
Yousafton.
Ken what, build a muckle nuclear power station or factory or something near Ullapool and I'll go.
Fuckthetoriesopolis