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:
Without fanfare at some point today vehicles were allowed to finally use the new single track bridge at Balliemore. Use is ongoing and the single B836 is now fully open!
The bridge was undermined by the Balliemore Burn during an intense rainfall event in early October 2023. While the communities of Southwest Cowal will rejoice that the bridge has been replaced and is now open, questions are being asked about the procurement of both the eventual and the interim solution. Why did this replacement taken so long? How is it that this was not made an absolute priority and why has there not been clarity on completion dates – indeed how did the council end up promising an April 25 completion and find that it took a further 6 months for the project to be complete. And lastly, why-o-why is it only single track?
The Community Council is sure there are good answers to these questions, but they do require answering! If only to prevent a repetition of the same lack of urgency and impact on the economic and social wellbeing of our very rural communities.
In February 2025, 40 people gathered at Glendaruel Village Hall to take part in one of a series of Food for Thought events happening across Argyll and Bute. These conversations are part of a wider effort to shape a Sustainable Food Partnership for the region, putting community voices at the heart of decision-making around food systems, access, affordability, and resilience.
This report brings together the key themes and priorities that emerged throughout the day, capturing insights from local residents, producers, campaigners, and community groups.
The Newsletter includes:
To get your hardcopy please contact the CC via our contact form.
Dunoon Community Council have posted a survey on their website. If you have views you would like to express, then this is an anonymous forum for your comments.
https://dunooncommunitycouncil.co.uk/argyll-rally-2025
The ColGlen Council is also taking feedback, both at an in-person meeting on 7th July, and also via our usual contact form.
Here is the note of the meeting:
The Community Council is holding a meeting to discuss this year’s rally at the end of June on Monday, 7th July at 7.30pm in the Colintraive Village Hall.
If you would like to feedback on how the event affected you, positively or negatively, please attend or let us know your thoughts via our contact form.
If you choose to feedback via email/contact form, we will assume you would like to remain anonymous, unless you tell us that you are happy to be associated with your comments.
On Monday 9th June 2025 at the Glendaruel Village Hall, an update was given on the future lessee of the Cruach Mhor windfarm which is now known to be Belltown Power. This is a Bristol-based organisation which has an existing relationship with Forestry and Land Scotland. It operates four other sites in Scotland and several southern sites, with a mixed portfolio of wind, photovoltaic and hydro power. Their bid was the most financially competitive out of the 18 total bidders for the lease of the windfarm which renews in 2029.
For more, please read the document below:
ColGlen Community Council are holding their AGM on Monday 9th June, 7.30pm in the Glendaruel Hall, followed by a standard community council meeting using the standing agenda.
All are welcome to attend, we look forward to seeing you there.
Here is the Agenda and the minute of last year’s general meeting.
Argyll and Bute Council are launching the Argyll and Bute Housing Need and Demand (HNDA) – Household Survey in preparation for their next Housing Need and Demand Assessment.
The survey is being conducted by Research Resource on behalf of the Council, and seeks to obtain information from households about their housing needs, properties and neighbourhoods they live in.
To make sure that the results of the study are accurate, Research Resource need as many households as possible to participate across all our Housing Market Areas. The researchers will contact random households directly across the area during June, July and August 2025. Interviews will be undertaken by telephone on the islands and in more remote areas, and on a face-to-face basis on the mainland.
Households who would like to participate can arrange an interview at a convenient time, through various channels.
Telephone – Research Resource on 0141 641 6410 during office hours.
Email – Research Resource – info@researchresource.co.uk with contact details.
Web form – to register contact details – www.researchresource.co.uk/Argyll&Bute.html
QR Code – Scan the QR code below (also attached)
