STV News has learned that £170,000 of taxpayers’ money was wasted, installing and then removing parking spaces at a popular beauty-spot.
Plastic bollards now line the roadside at Loch Morlich in the Cairngorms Park to deter motorists, but with no alternative parking arrangements.
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