In 2022, Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) bought Whitefield Farm on King's Cross, Arran, off market, with the intention of creating a timber stackyard and export station into Lamlash Bay via a new pier on the shoreline. Very serious risks were identified by FLS pre purchase, yet this Scottish Government body went ahead and paid £1.25 million for the farm.
In 2024, via a Freedom of Information request, we received a "Feasibility Study" dated February 2024 which indicates a number of costed design options for a pier, and possible bridge, with 3000m2 of timber stackyard, and nearly 1km of new roads through the farm down to the new pier.