Rally marks end of attempted community buy out of Castle Toward
There was nothing South Cowal Community Development Council [SCCDC] could do that they did not do in their efforts to acquire Castle Toward as a community-owned asset to secure South Cowal’s economic...
View ArticleBreslin gets no confidence motion in Walsh and McQueen on Area Committee agenda
Councillor Michael Breslin has had an emergency motion of no confidence accepted for the agenda of the meeting of the Bute and Cowal area Committee on 3rd February 2015.The motion proposes a vote of no...
View ArticleRussell secures government intervention in council sale of Castle Toward
Local MSP Michael Russell saw Alex Neil, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Communities this morning, 28th January, to discuss the experience of South Cowal Community Deveopment Company [SCCDC]...
View ArticleCommunities Secretary on prompt to intervene with revaluation of Castle Toward
We reported earlier today that Communities Secretary, Alex Neil, has asked Argyll & Bute Council to help South Cowal Community Development Company’s efforts to purchase Castle Toward Estate.Mr Neil...
View ArticleRequests to Council Leader for action – now – on new community company offer...
This morning, 30th January, following the South Cowal Community Development Company’s [SCCDC] new offer of £850k for the property, based on a full ‘red book’ valuation carried out for the company by...
View ArticleCastle Toward deadline: council chipping away to the very last
[Updated below] Generosity of spirit – or even the will to form constructive relations with the communities it exists to serve – seems to be beyond the reach of Argyll and Bute Council.South Cowal...
View Article8,747 sign petition for acceptance of SCCDC’s Castle Toward offer – as move...
As of this morning, 31st January, 8,747 have signed a petition for Argyll and Bute Council to accept the £850k offer for Castle Toward from the South Cowal Community Development Company [SCCDC] – an...
View ArticleCastle Toward: ‘No confidence’ vote lost on the casting vote of pro-Walsh chair
[Updated below 14.45] The agenda for this morning’s meeting, 3rd February, of the Bute and Cowal Area Committee in Dunoon had a motion of no confidence in local councillors, Council Leader Dick Walsh...
View ArticleCouncil, predictably, plays technical card to obstruct special meeting on...
Before lunchtime today, 3rd February, Councillor Michael Breslin received a reply to his request for a special meeting of Argyll & Bute Council to be called to discuss the council’s position on the...
View ArticleCastle Toward: Breslin detonates time bomb as Council agrees to special meeting
Supporters of the call for a special meeting of Argyll and Bute Council to discuss the council position on Castle Toward in the light of changed circumstances have now complied with the technical...
View ArticleFirst Minister moves inland with intervention on Castle Toward
First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has intervened in the Castle Toward melee, urging both sides to ‘negotiate constructively’ to secure the future of what she described as ‘an important community asset’....
View ArticleMore games as Council pushes special meeting to the brink of the deadline
They never learn. Yesterday saw more boys’ games at Kilmory with council bouncer and Executive Director for Customer Services, Douglas Hendry, arranging the special meeting on the South Cowal Community...
View ArticleCouncil Leader caught telling porkies about Castle Toward? But to whom?
[Updated below] It seems as if there may be another expression of interest in Castle Toward. This is said to have been communicated to Monday’s meeting of his administration by Council Leader and...
View ArticleCastle Toward: latest attempt to get Council leader to admit to dodgy loan offer
This morning, 7th February, has seen another attempt to bring Council Leader Dick Walsh out of an indefensible denial that no officer offered South Cowal Community Development Company[SCCDC] a loan...
View ArticleMary Galbraith – views on Castle Toward
Only recently did I discover that some who are campaigning on Castle Toward think I don’t have an opinion on the issue. This is untrue, and I even took steps to make sure that my views were shared...
View ArticleCastle Toward: the smoking gun
A letter emailed today, 10th February, to a member of the community in South Cowal, by a Scottish Government official, replying on behalf of First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, to questions submitted to...
View ArticleCastle Toward – let it go now
This campaign has run its course. Sometimes fate’s trying to tell you something. The community may well eventually be glad that they didn’t get what might well have proved a proverbial albatross. Where...
View ArticleCastle Toward campaigners take note: Argyll & Bute Council is ‘working to...
The jaws of members and supporters of South Cowal Community Development Company’s will be on their knees by the end of this fantasy puff. They have just seen their ambitions to buy Castle Toward as...
View ArticleRussell offers to meet Council administration to discuss Castle Toward
Local MSP, Michael Russell, is seeking a meeting with the full administration of Argyll and Bute Council ‘to discuss the issue of Castle Toward and the need for positive engagement on the many problems...
View ArticleCross-party support for Russell’s ‘Castle Toward’ amendments to Community...
Michael Russell, MSP for Argyll and Bute, has welcomed the decision of the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government Committee to back – unanimously – his amendments to the Community Empowerment Bill...
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