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Osborne Interiors pursue the dance of the chain saws in Castle Woods
The redoubtable Helensburgh Community Woodland Group has used Freedom of Information legislation to establish that Helensburgh developers, Osborne Interiors, are again pursuing development in Castle...
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Decoding Helensburgh’s Colquhoun Square: Comet I or Comet II?
With the dispute raging over what Argyll and Bute Council is hell bent on doing to Helensburgh’s Colquhoun Square through the CHORD project, the most constructive thing seemed to be to start with what...
View ArticlePlanners under scrutiny on developers Osbornes’ manoeuvres in Helensburgh
[Updated below 18th October] With the decision by Helensburgh developers, Osborne Interiors, not to demolish the derelict blocks of former naval flats at Jutland Court which they recently acquired,...
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Ardfern: divisions in paradise
Ardfern village and the Craignish peninsula in mid Argyll in which it sits, is a part of the world that has all of the elements of a rural idyll.In the characteristic Argyll mode dictated by...
View ArticleEwan Kennedy: Regulation of fish farms and sympathy for council planners
Those of us actively involved in the saveseilsound Campaign Group have found that trying to come to grips with the present system for the regulation of industrial fish farms is a bit like trying to...
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Helensburgh group calls for Argyll and Bute Council to take action against...
Helensburgh Community Woodlands Group [HCWG] has spent years fighting against the environmental depredations of a local developer, Osborne Interiors – owned by Margery Osborne and Thomas Paterson.This...
View ArticleTurning nasty: local developers’ dispute with Helensburgh Community Woodland...
The Chair of Helensburgh Community Woodland Group received a visit from Police Scotland last weekend, following up on a claim made to them that he had damaged one of the trees local developers were...
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Council planners show damaging weakness in follow up to enforcement at...
Every step gained in Argyll and Bute planning department's assertion of the authority of law and of statutory regulations seems to be neutered by a subsequent and entirely unnecessary retreat. Where,...
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Triumph for Helensbugh CHORD as Summer Festival gets going
We paid an impromptu visit to Helensburgh last Thursday 17th July, to check out the work being done under the CHORD town centre and waterfront regeneration programme in advance of the start of the...
View ArticleDifferences on early imposition of new and contradictory planning controls on...
The Scottish Government has announced the introduction of new planning controls to require advance notification to and approval by local authority planning departments of the intention to create a...
View ArticleRally for Castle Toward – still a road to travel
The spirited Rally held in Dunoon on Saturday 17th January by supporters of South Cowal Community Development Company’s [SCCDC] campaign to buy the neglected Castle Toward estate from Argyll and Bute...
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Novel skillset discovered in Argyll and Bute Council Planning Committee
The rest of us might look at piles of miscellaneous debris lying together in the same location and be unable to distinguish between them.But Argyll and Bute Council’s Planning Committee can – without...
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