Argyll And Bute

A £3.4 million investment project to help reduce the risk of sewer flooding begins today in Tarbert, Argyll and Bute.

Construction and infrastructure firm Aggregate Industries has achieved international recognition from the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC) for its Glensanda quarry near Oban.

A £22 million contract to give Helensburgh a high quality swimming pool and leisure centre has been awarded to Heron Brothers Ltd.

An appeal against a ruling to reject a legal challenge to the granting of planning permission for a residential development near Ardencaple House had been dismissed.

A community development company has completed the purchase of land to provide affordable homes on the island of Colonsay.

Plans to build a distillery on Islay moved a step closer to reality after the submission of a revised application to Argyll & Bute Council’s planning department.

The Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust has appointed Collective Architecture to work with the community to take forward plans for a new housing and hub development on the Isle of Gigha. Image credit: The Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust

MacLeod Construction has completed the final phase in a 32-unit new build in the village of Connel, north of Oban, on behalf of Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA). The completed development was officially opened by Highlands and Islands MSP John Finnie.

Innovative plans to bring one of the world’s most famous distilleries back into production on the island of Islay have been given the green light.

Regarded as a domestic masterpiece for Scottish architecture, the 1904 Charles Rennie Mackintosh Hill House has been saved thanks to the innovative ‘Box’ that has been constructed by Robertson Construction and the fundraising efforts of the National Trust for Scotland.

Dunbritton Housing Association has won the Rural and Islands Housing Association Forum (RIHAF) Development of the Year Award for 2019. This award was made in recognition of Dunbritton’s most recent rural development of 26 social housing properties at Bruce Court, Succoth in the village of

More than 70 staff could be made redundant at a Scottish wind firm.

Argyll & Bute Council’s decision to focus road maintenance budgets on improving roads classified as being in ‘amber’ condition as well as those flagged as ‘red’ has been backed by an audit review panel.

Argyll and Bute Council has welcomed the announcement of a £50 million Rural Growth Deal as a "transformational vote of confidence" in the area.

More than 900 new affordable homes look set to be built in Argyll and Bute over the next five years as part of the local authority’s revised Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP).