In general ColGlen is affected between the hours of 18.47 on 19th June until 18.47 on 20th June with Kilfinan, Millhouse and Ardlamont Peninsula also affected during this period too. The full timetable is outlined below.
Of note particular to ColGlen are:
Please note the road closures noted in the poster above.
Given the input from ColGlen and other Community Councils this year’s rally promises to be their best, least disruptive event yet, with opportunites for spectators to get close to the cars and chat with the crews at the Clachan carpark.
The Rally Organisers have added a passage control to the route immediately after SS10/15 at the polytunnel/play area car park.
Each car will be here for approximately five minutes and we will be advising crews at the pre-event briefing that the purpose of this control is to allow interaction with the residents.
The first cars are due at this control at the following times. These are dependent on the rally running to time so they may be slightly later than this.
There should be one car every minute so at any one time there should be five or six cars parked up.
SS10 – 10:00
SS15 – 15:30
And if you haven’t yet received the residents’ pack, it is available here:
Community Council elections will occur on the 20th August 2026, and everyone with an interest in serving our community as a community councillor is invited to fill out the nomination forms (see below).
To understand what the Community Council has been working over the last session, our minutes are available here, with updates available here.
Below is the official PDF nomination pack. This can be printed out and filled in (there are instructions for postal nominations available at the end of this post). Alternatively, we have included the Word versions of the forms if you prefer to send in the forms by email.
Word Documents for email.
If you require hard copies of the pack for anyone who prefers to complete and return their nomination by post, or copies of the poster/flyer then please email us at elections@argyll-bute.gov.uk to request these.
Just as a reminder, the nomination period opens on Friday, 5 June 2026, and will close promptly at 4pm on Thursday, 25 June 2026. All completed nominations must reach the Returning Officer within this timeframe. If submitting electronically, please send your forms to elections@argyll-bute.gov.uk. If you choose to submit your nomination by post, please allow enough time for delivery to ensure your application arrives before the deadline. The Notice of Election will be forwarded to you on Thursday, as well as being displayed on the webpage previously mentioned.
Today the Equitable Energy Research Report on Onshore Wind Repowering is finally published, discussing the “Opportunities for Community Wealth Building in Argyll and Bute – and Beyond” (available below).
The Repowering of Cruach Mhor Windfarm is a central part of the repowering puzzle in Scotland, and therefore the results of the discussions our community has at the meeting on June 14th will be anticipated with great interest – it seems Scotland will be watching!
The SLWG has contributed in small part to the report and we have emphasized throughout, that we are a community-led group which, notwithstanding the wider conversation about onshore wind, repowering and climate change, will represent and advocate for the decisions made by the residents of ColGlen.
Here is what the report says about the Cruach Mhor Repowering Project:
Located on the Cowal Peninsula, Cruach Mhor (30 MW) was commissioned in 2004 and consists of 35 turbines, with a total capacity of 29 MW, around 90% of which is situated on FLS land. When Scottish Power’s FLS lease came up for renewal, Cowal Community Energy (CCE) – a consortium of local development trusts – lodged a bid for the site but was unsuccessful, losing out to Belltown Power. The Scottish Government’s decision to introduce the FLS pilot scheme (page 25) appears to be an acknowledgement that communities cannot compete directly on an equal commercial basis with more experienced and better-financed commercial developers.
The successful bidder Belltown Power is however offering what they describe as “a unique and groundbreaking” shared ownership scheme supporting “genuine buy-in” and “real community/developer partnerships.”57 This scheme involves:
• Donating 1% ownership of their onshore wind projects to local communities;
• Offering an additional 4% ownership at cost value;
• The option for local communities to buy additional ownership shares at market value – up to 44% according to local community groups in Cowal,58 which would equate to up to 49% total ownership with local communities.
At the time of writing, the relationship between CCE – whose members represent the wider Cowal peninsula including Colintraive and Glendaruel (ColGlen) Development Trust – and the ColGlen community council and historic wind farm trust was still under consideration. As of early 2026, ColGlen was understood to still be considering whether to negotiate directly with Belltown Power, or to support CCE in negotiating on their behalf, collectively with the wider Cowal community. How this is resolved will significantly affect how much of the repowering value flows to residents living in the immediate vicinity of the windfarm and the wider region. Having been a test case for a community attempt at repowering, Cruach Mhor looks set to become an important test case for shared ownership.
Here is a link to the full report.
The community meeting at 2.30pm on 14th June 2026 in the Glen Hall will introduce the findings of the Short-Life Working Group (SLWG) and hope to gain insight into the community’s wishes for how to approach the repowering of the Cruach Mhor windfarm and the associated opportunities.
From the beginning this has been a ground-up consultative process and is designed to ensure that everyone is included in the community’s decision.
If you cannot make the meeting or if you would like to participate in the survey but do not have a paper copy of the handout (link and below), please email your answers and comments on the repowering to the SLWG via the secretary’s email.
Over the last three years or so, the community council and development trust, with help from ABCAN have been developing a Local Place Plan for submission and inclusion in Argyll and Bute Council’s next Local Plan. The LPP is intended to capture the community’s aspirations and concerns for the next decade and will provide all the community organisations associated with ColGlen a blueprint which has statutory standing.
To read and comment on the LPP please visit http://colglencommunitycouncil.org.uk/draft-local-place-plan/
The Community Council meeting will begin as usual at 1930 and the meeting will be following the standing agenda, available here.
Please note this is the penultimate meeting of the 25/26 session, with the CC AGM scheduled for our June meeting.
Everyone is welcome!
We will be discussing the repowering of Cruach Mhor Windfarm, the CMAL harbour order, and the 2026 edition of the Rally among many other items, all encompassed by our standing agenda. Our draft minutes for last time are posted on our minutes page here.
All welcome.
The community council will be meeting next Monday in the small meeting room at the back of the Glendaruel Hall (across the stage). Items on our agenda will include Resilience, Roads, the Rally and the Repowering of Cruach Mhor Windfarm. All are welcome!
We will be following our standing agenda and the draft minutes are available here
An informal community meeting was held in the Glendaruel Hall at 2:30 PM on Sunday, October 26, 2025, to discuss early issues arising from the award of the re-powering lease of Cruach Mhor to Belltown Energy.
Prior to the event, an information sheet including details of the meeting had been distributed by hand to all households in the Colintraive and Glendaruel area, which is available here.
A report from the Community Liaison Group and decks from the meeting are available below: