Fairlie Council chairman Steve Graham wants to draw a line over a controversy regarding remarks made at a recent meeting concerning wind turbine cash, which he believes have been mis-construed.

Largs Community Councillor Patricia Perman has said she was 'disgusted' at a Fairlie councillor's attitude during a recent meeting concerning the distribution of cash from the SSE company at Hunterston. Mrs Perman said that she was unhappy at Fairlie councillor John Riddell's attitude concerning Largs.

However, Mr Graham stated that there was nothing detrimental said about Largs 'in any shape or form' during the recent meeting of the Hunterston fund advisory panel regarding the distribution of about �50,000 from SSE Renewables to local communities. The meeting was attended by local community councils who are receiving �12,500 each.

Mrs Perman claimed that Mr Riddell said that Fairlie Community Council was not interested in anything that happens in Largs.

But Mr Graham said: "What was being said was it is up to Largs to spend its portion of the money, and in the same way, it is up to Fairlie how it spends its portion - there was no animosity in what was said, and let's now move on." Fairlie Council have agreed that the funds will go into the Fairlie Community Trust, which is pursuing the village seafront path project.

At the last Largs Community Council meeting Mrs Perman persisted with her complaint against Mr Riddell and proposed writing to Fairlie council about it.

Mrs Perman said she wanted to pursue the matter by sending a letter.

There was an attempt to drop the subject with chairman Douglas Blair saying that no letter should be sent.

He said: "I would say it's been dealt with informally. To my mind, it's a rather pointless exercise." Committee member Ian Murdoch agreed, and while pointing out that no formal vote had been taken on the matter, stated: "I objected to it. I said it was causing a conflict where there was no conflict." Elected North Coast councillor, and Fairlie resident, Alan Hill said: "I quite often disagree with John Riddell on a lot of things. I don't think the statement was anti-Largs." However, Mrs Perman maintained that a "letter of clarification" should still be sent. Referring to the previous month's meeting, which he had chaired, George Douglas said: "It was my decision that a letter should be sent."