Campbeltown town hall temporarily closed – ideas wanted
Argyll and Bute Council has temporarily closed Campbeltown Town Hall, on health and safety grounds.Gaps in the slates have allowed birds to enter the roof space. The council is now assessing how the...
View ArticleOban CHORD project in crisis: 3 SNP councillors resign from Board
Citing dysfunctional management of the Oban CHORD project which has not met for 22 weeks now, Councillors Roddy McCuish, Donald Macdonald and Donald McIntosh have resigned from the Board of the...
View ArticleKintyre councillor voices serious concern at future of Campbeltown marina...
South Kintyre Councillor, John Semple, has spoken out in support of the Marina Development in Campbeltown – part of Argyll & Bute Councils flagship CHORD Project, a £30M regeneration package for...
View ArticleSemple calls for council to repay Campbeltown’s missing regeneration funding
South Kintyre Councillor, John Semple, is calling on Argyll and Bute Council to repay a borrowed £480,000 to secure the future of the Campbeltown Marina project.Last year, Kintyre Councillors...
View ArticleFreeman nails the fiction on council administration roads funding
With the hillside above the A83 on the move again, closing the artery to the county, roads are the issue of the day.Argyll and Bute Council is an administration that has neglected to maintain Argyll’s...
View ArticleSNP Group Leader wanted to take them straight into opposition
It transpires that Derek Mackay, Minister for Local Government in the SNP Scottish Government advised that the SNP group of councillors – elected to lead in the political management of Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleMajor private sector investment in Kerrera’s Oban Marina a dynamic boost to...
In one of the most exciting entrepreneurial developments in the Oban area for some time, Peter Weir of Oban Marina, on the Isle of Kerrera across the Bay from the town, is pretty well to level his...
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Helensburgh Summer Festival to seduce Glasgow Fair Audience
The annual Glasgow Fair starts this Saturday, 19th July. Argyll’s seaside town of Helensburgh, in the inner Firth of Clyde, is ready for it, with a Summer Festival planned to bring back the days of...
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‘Voice of Oban’ a clear SNP smear attempt on Councillor Roddy McCuish
A long anonymous tract was circulated electronically yesterday – as ‘The Voice of Oban’, graced by no names but working hard to smear the now Independent local Councillor and former SNP Leader of...
View ArticleBriefing Note for Argyll & Bute Economic Summit
We have a copy of the Briefing Note issued by Argyll and Bute Council for the Economic Summit it is holding in Dunoon tomorrow, Wednesday 29th October, with Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair...
View ArticleDefining moment as things get silly on Oban’s North Pier
[Updated below 17.45] This morning, 7th January, some council employee moved an Ee-usk van from outside the White Building on the North Pier, without the owner’s knowledge or consent.This was done...
View ArticleFive Argyll projects benefit in Alexander announcement of Coastal Communities...
Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander, MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, has announced the latest tranche of funding from the Coastal Communities Fund – £9.58 million shared by 27...
View ArticleThe Oban North Pier Panto: writs, gazebos, TIFs, making millions [?] and...
‘Oh no they won’t.’ ‘Oh yes they will.’Oban’s father and son businesses team of Alan and Callum McLeod have singlehandedly regenerated what had been an unattractive and prominent part of the town’s...
View ArticleSwinney revaluation of business rates puts Lorn Arc TIF project at risk
Argyll and Bute Council’s Lorn Arc project is under threat from the Scottish Government’s announcement on 13th February that Finance Secretary, John Swinney, is to revalue Scotland’s business rate.In...
View ArticleMore support for Oban Bay Marine and Oban transit marina project
The Argyll Charter Boat Association [ACBA] has made it known that it fully supports the call for Argyll and Bute Council, after 8 years of faffing around, to act quickly and constructively in response...
View ArticleDead in the water: Oban transit marina
This morning, 15th April, saw the dead end of eight years of dedicated effort by a team that have taken all sorts of abuse and misrepresentation on the chin in order to remain faithful to the trust of...
View ArticleJohn MacGregor: A lost and powerful voice nails the blocking of the Oban Bay...
The email below was written by the late Councilor John MacGregor – elected in 2014 to represent Oban North and Lorn [Ward 5] at Argyll and Bute Council and who died before his first council meeting.A...
View ArticleCHORD Project Manager resigns
For Argyll understands that Argyll and Bute Council’s CHORD Project Manager, Linda Houston, has resigned from her post.Where this leaves the enduringly troubled CHORD regeneration project – which has...
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