Bute urged to vote on Rhubodach forest buy-out as BBC features community...
In its morning, lunchtime and evening news bulletins today 88th February), BBC Scotland is featuring Bute Community Land Company‘s initiative to buy Rhubodach forest at the north end of the island.The...
View ArticleBute Community Land Company gets the perfect storm – media storm
Yesterday (8th February) was all about Bute – and the largest Community Ballot ever undertaken in Scotland – island wide.As we’d reported, BBC Scotland had been over to the island to film some local...
View Article94% YES vote for Bute Community Forest at Rhubodach
(Updated below) The Isle of Bute voted today on the proposed community buy out of Rhubodach Forest for the Attenboroughs. Whatever the community decision was to be, it needed 50% of the entire islands...
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Campbeltown steps up to the plate on Machrihanish airbase
We said in a recent piece that the exciting spectrum of initiatives and opportunities that have now come together for Campbeltown and Kintyre would be a test of the people’s will to help themselves by...
View ArticleGlencoe joins Argyll community buyout march with ‘Yes’ vote for hospital
Glencoe Hospital, the former geriatric facility, was closed by NHS Highland in 2008 and, since then, has been boarded up.The twin forces of distaste for dereliction and a consideration of community...
View ArticleMather congratulates Machrihanish on buy-out vote
Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, has welcomed both the turnout and the near unanimous vote of the people who endorsed the proposal in principle that the Kintyre community should exercise the ‘community right...
View ArticleBig YES vote from Colintraive and Glendaruel to buy Stronafian Forest
The community of Colintraive and Glendaruel has voted to purchase 600 hectares of forest in one of the most ambitious community buy-outs Cowal has yet seen. 67% of the community voted on whether the...
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...
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