SNH and Griff Rhys Jones cast their support for CRAG over Lamington Quarry...
The energetic Clyde River Action Group (CRAG) have had SNH come down on their side in opposition to the application by Paterson’s of Greenoakhill (named and shamed by SEPA as a persistant polluter) to...
View ArticleMajor Forestry Commission grant for Argyll’s forest amenity development
Argyll has taken a lion’s share in grants of over £642,000 which has been awarded to 15 projects across Scotland to help spruce up local woodlands for people to enjoy.The funding will support a number...
View ArticleDepressing news from The Buteman – and a challenge
The energetic community consultation day held at the Rothesay Pavilion by the Bute Community Land Company and the successful Bute 2020 event hosted at Mount Stuart, both testified to the presence of...
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Arbroath school review’s Westway proposal: cost, safety, capacity, amenity
As an example for all those in Argyll and the rest of Scotland who are increasingly concerned at the competence and integrity with which local authorities have been conducting ‘school estate reviews’ –...
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Achnabreac, Port Ann and Ardcastle forests to reopen on 14th July
Residents and visitors in west Argyll will welcome the reopening of three popular woodland areas with attractive walking trails.Forestry Commission Scotland’s forest areas at Achnabreac, Port Ann and...
View ArticleCowal community buys 600 hectare Stronafian Forest
In the biggest community forest land purchase Argyll has see since Mull Community Woodland Ltd bought 800 hectares in 2005, the unified communities of Colintraive and Glendaruel in south west Cowal,...
View ArticleNATIONHOOD: The For Argyll Referendum Project
Think about Scotland in 2050. What sort of a country do you want it to be by then? Prepare to share that vision.We’re not interested in the ‘now’ or in the vested interests and mantras of either Better...
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Argyll and the Isles’ Secrets Collection: Castle Lachlan and Kilmorie Chapel
Just describing where this lovely place is underlines why it is one of our Argyll and the Isles’ Secrets Collection.It’s in west Cowal, on the eastern shores of Loch Fyne, tucked away off the single...
View ArticleSubstantial community benefits from the big estates
A simplistic adversarial demonising of the genre of the landowner has, deliberately, ramped up the politics of unthinking envy, with no consideration of the realities.The pattern of life is that some...
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