The company’s initial goals were:
| 1. |
To ensure the protection of the Dunes area as an undeveloped natural area. |
| 2. |
To ensure public access to the Dunes area. |
| 3. |
To provide a protective, mainly woodland, buffer zone between the Dunes and the Community, maintaining and improving the existing 30 acres of woodland and providing additional land for woodland development. |
| 4. |
To enable the continued development of the ecovillage project of the Community to achieve its fullest potential through:
a. Physically linking the various parcels of land already involved.
b. Making additional land available for appropriate forms of development. |
| 5. |
To ensure a reasonable return to the investors through development, in cooperation with the other partners in the ecovillage project and the community as a whole. |
What we have done so far
Goals 1 and 2 have now been achieved with the transfer of the larger part of the dunes area to the Findhorn Dunes Trust in November 2000.
Goal 3 is being implemented through tree planting and protection.
Goals 4 and 5 will be the main focus of the company over the next ten years.
The 1998 Moray Development Plan expanded the area of Duneland within the settlement boundary from about 5 acres to about 10 acres. We anticipate the final settlement boundary extending to the full 16 acre area of the magic triangle.