It is on the condition that the group of business owners ensures public liability insurance is in place.

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The landowner and Eilean Eisdeal Community Trust are embroiled in a dispute after he demanded a land use fee and asked to see a copy of the trust's public liability insurance.

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The Eilean Easdale Community Trust confirmed it had refused to pay the fee for the charity event - which it described as "excessive" - and had declined a request to produce its public liability insurance for inspection.

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But he still wants councils to stop demanding that organisers have public-liability insurance even for small events.

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