Waitrose’s Helensburgh application approved
- Details
- Published Date
- Written by Super User
Proposals by supermarket giant Waitrose to build a store opposite Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh have been approved. Argyll and Bute’s planning, protective services and licensing (PPSL) committee made the decision today following a public hearing in the town. More than 260 people attended the eight hour hearing in Victoria Halls, which followed an earlier site visit by committee members.
Planners had recommended that the application for a food store and petrol on Cardross Road on the outskirts of the town be refused.
Education and roads receive massive investment in council budget
- Details
- Published Date
- Written by Super User
Argyll and Bute Council has agreed to invest heavily in the two areas which the majority of its residents see as being the top spending priorities.
At its budget meeting today, the authority approved plans to spend some £30m of capital on education over the next three years, and £21m on its roads network over the same period.
This represents over £20m more than had been earmarked for these two key areas in the draft budget papers.
Among the proposals agreed today are to spend millions of pounds on new schools in Dunoon and Campbeltown and a new swimming pool and leisure facility in Helensburgh.
Helensburgh to be recognised as a tourist destination
- Details
- Published Date
- Written by Super User
An Argyll and Bute town is en route to being added to the destinations covered by the national network of brown ‘tourist’ road signs.
It is hoped that the move will attract even more visitors to the popular seaside town of Helensburgh.
For some time the local community has been calling for Helensburgh to be signposted on the brown ‘tourist’ roads signs. The Helensburgh CHORD project team took this request on board and has over the last few months been seeking permission from Transport Scotland to put brown signs on the A82 at the south end of Loch Lomond. That in principle approval has now been given.
Cardross Primary through to National Finals of Scottish schools football competition
- Details
- Published Date
- Written by Super User
Cardross Primary School has emerged victorious after the last match of the West District Final of the Scottish Schools Football Competition on Thursday the 9th February 2012 at Toryglen Stadium in Glasgow. The Argyll and Bute school are now West District Champions.
The team will now go on to compete in the National Finals as one of the top eight teams in Scotland.
On their way to the finals the team have won the Christian Aid Trophy in May and the Ardencaple Cup in November last year and finished at the top undefeated in the last qualifying round at the Firhill Complex in Glasgow.
The Cardross Primary team is made up with boys from Primary 5 to 7 and they are coached by teacher Nick Hendry. They were cheered on by a large crowd at Toryglen Stadium where they won their last three matches 2-1, 3-1 and 2-0.
Statement from Council Leader
- Details
- Published Date
- Written by Super User
Referring to the recent allegations regarding the covert use of social media, Argyll and Bute Council leader Councillor Dick Walsh said: “These are serious allegations into which a thorough investigation has been launched.
“I would like to categorically state that this organisation has never, and would never, condone the sort of practice around which the allegations centre.
"I will of course be seeking regular updates on the progress of the investigation and await its outcome with interest.”