Argyll And Bute

Argyll and Bute Council’s Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) Pilot Project for the Lorn Arc Area has been extended by 10 years, allowing additional time to implement key infrastructure and development investments that will help to create a significant economic boost to the wider Oban area. The TI

Loch Lomond Group has secured planning permission and started construction on a new distillery and visitor centre in Luss with completion anticipated for summer 2025. 

A major employer in the picturesque Scottish coastal resort of Dunoon has joined with the local community in throwing his weight behind a campaign to prevent one of the Argyllshire town’s most iconic Victorian buildings from lapsing into dereliction. Greg Girard, the Dunoon-born and raised man

A steel box built to protect Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Hill House in Helensburgh will remain in place until 2028, the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has announced. The giant box was constructed around the property in 2019 to protect its saturated walls from the elements and help it to dry out a

Argyll and Bute Council will meet in February to consider options and make a final decision on a preferred site to build a new school campus on Mull.

Rothesay Harbour stabilisation work is due to be completed this week well ahead of schedule and on budget.

UK investment specialist Blackfinch Group has acquired a 174-hectare commercial forest in Argyll and Bute. The acquisition, made through its subsidiary Litchfield Trading Limited and funded by retail investors through the Blackfinch Adapt IHT Service, marks Blackfinch's first foray into the forestry

Argyll and Bute Council’s Building Standards team has won a national award for excellent performance, particularly its focus on customer service. The team recently received a Nation Building Standards Performance Award, presented by the Scottish Government, in the medium-sized local authority

Combating fuel poverty, cutting carbon emissions and increasing Argyll and Bute’s energy efficiency are among the top priorities in the council’s Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES).

On November 1, 2024, Provost Douglas Philand officially opened Cnoc Mor Place, a new affordable housing development in Lochgilphead, Argyll & Bute, delivered by Fyne Homes Ltd. 

Community responses to a consultation into plans for a new school campus on Mull are being analysed by Argyll and Bute Council ahead of an expected decision on a preferred site in the coming months.

Work has started on a project in Campbeltown that will see residents benefit from better walking and cycling routes along the town’s Cutting and Quarry Green.

Restoration work on a crumbling disused building once hidden away in the middle of a forest on Scotland’s west coast has reached the stage of the building now “starting to resemble a bothy, minus the roof”. Volunteers from the Mountain Bothy Association (MBA) have been putting in l

A previously ruined croft on the Isle of Mull that was transformed into a restaurant has won the RIBA Reinvention Award 2024. The Reinvention Award recognises achievement in the creative reuse of existing buildings through transformative projects.

Canadian decarbonised heating specialist Noventa Energy has acquired three innovative heat from wastewater assets from Scottish Water Horizons located in Glasgow, Stirling and Campbeltown. These assets, the first of their kind in the UK, will be partially repowered to benefit from Noventa’s pr