Objection to Craignish affordable housing application may bring loss of...
Following the decision taken at the last meeting of Craignish Community Council – to object to the application for planning consent for 6 units of affordable rented housing and five units for sale at...
View ArticleTime for council administration to think about where it’s going
Its nine months of office to date seem to have brought the new coalition administration at Argyll and Bute Council less to the birth of a confident team than to the kind of upheaval where they would be...
View ArticleOutcome of SNP group’s bare knuckle crisis meeting
We are hearing that yesterday’s crisis meeting of SNP Councillors was, shall we say, robust – a political bare knuckle occasion.The current suspension from the party of Dunoon’s Councillor Michael...
View ArticleColonsay votes 60%-40% in favour of proposed Marine Harvest salmon farm
In an almost 91% turnout for the vote, the majority decision by the islanders of Colonsay is incontrovertible in its 60%-40% support for global salmon farmer, Marine Harvest, in its proposal to...
View ArticleScottish Government gives Raasay crofters a consultation on shooting rights
The crofters of the Isle of Raasay, who managed shooting and fishing rights over the island, found themselves dispossessed by a government which has previously looked generously after their...
View ArticleSeconder for Councillor Ewan Smith’s referral of Arbroath primary school...
The Education Committee of Angus Council last Thursday took the strange decision:to borrow £10.6 million [which, with interest will cost £28.16 million over the 40 year write-off period]to use this to...
View ArticleUK Government reneges on Osborne promise of only yesterday to compensate UK...
It has been revealed tonight that the UK Treasury has reneged on a key promise the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, issued only yesterday, 17th March.The European Commission, the...
View ArticleUnplanned overdrafts possible as Council debits council tax today
[Updated below 14.15] We have had reports that Argyll and Bute Council has debited Council tax today – Thursday 28th April 2013 – rather than on 1st April.One resident discovered this purely by...
View ArticleRow in upmarket Helensburgh over development plan for Lieper house
Morar House in Upper Colquhoun Street was designed for a Glasgow shipping family by the leading architect William Lieper, built high on the hill on the prestigious road, with a panoramic sweep over the...
View ArticleCouncil minutes of Struan Lodge motion at 21 March meeting raise the most...
[Updated below 15.00 5th April] The minutes of the meeting of Argyll and Bute Council;s meeting on 21st March were finally published this morning, 4th April.The ‘Struan Lodge motion’Item 1 on the...
View ArticleVote of confidence for Thursday council meeting
Following last night’s revelations here [below], Cowal Councillor Gordon Blair is said to be acting as the agent of local MSP, Michael Russell who, if this shambles had anything remotely strategic...
View ArticleLabour MSP Rhoda Grant hits out at disarray in SNP in Argyll
Well regarded Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, Rhoda Grant, who submitted a motion to the Scottish Parliament on the future of Struan Lodge care home in Dunoon, has hit out at the disarray within the...
View ArticleStruan Lodge: where now?
Following the political antics and absurdities over the council meeting on Thursday 25th April, the Struan Lodge care home in Dunoon has not been reprieved.It has been left in limbo, with no new...
View ArticleNew council administration appears not to be what it seemed
We understand, on good authority, that the proposed new administration for Argyll and Bute Council has not emerged from a sound or indeed, a proper, decision taking process.Two Conservative...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute: where now – experiences and choices?
In the unprincipled goings on of the last administration, led by the Alliance of Independent Councillors, we hoped that a party-led administration would bring a discipline and a set of principles that...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: the horsetrading begins
There is a meeting being arranged for tomorrow between a curious collection of councillors:The SNP’s Sandy Taylor is rumoured to be the likely next party leader if Roddy McCuish decides to step down in...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: Councillor McCuish leads again
[16:10 Updated below] Councilor Roddy McCuish has been appointed leader of Argyll and Bute Council.First see the latest council communication – sent before the start of the council meeting,...
View ArticleFirst Minister’s call for ‘grown up politics’ countered by order – from the top
On Radio Clyde News at 11.00am yesterday morning, 8th June, First Minister Alex Salmond said that ‘grown up politics is about working with opponents’.Correct as this is, it indicates that the First...
View ArticleHeart of Argyll Tourism Alliance –‘one of the best cooperatives in the...
- and Argyll and the Isles Tourism Cooperative is now an sectoral case study.Heart of Argyll Tourism Alliance co-operative has been named as one of the UK’s leading co-operatives and has been...
View ArticlePostscript to hearing on Ardfern planning application
The Discretionary Hearing by Argyll and Bute Council’s Planning Committee on the planning application from the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland for The Glebe in Ardfern, was held in Craignish...
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