Furnace for Argyll

Argyll and Bute Council’s Executive has approved the first draft of an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for Loch Fyne. This will go to public consultation for eight weeks from early October. The draft plan has been developed over the past three years in collaboration with local interests and regulators. Its aim is to provide [...]

A working party armed with spades, concrete slabs, a wooden seat and Charlie Brown’s pick up did some heavy work to leave the Leacainn Walk in good order for the Autumn. Linda Biggar - the most frequent - as well as the fastest - walker on the route and, with Alec Campbell, a regular repair [...]

At last night’s Community Council meeting Nicola Debnam from Argyll and Bute Council and Ian Arnold form Argyll Timer Transport Group came to present the furnace-pier-haulroad-report on the feasibility appraisal into the proposed new pier at Furnace. The appraisal was commissioned by the two partners above from Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd.
The report describes Argyll as [...]

Rebecca Martin, an ex-USA Marine doing a lot to record life and events in Furnace just now, has broken her nose for the first time in her life. She was out on the Leacainn Walk when she fell over a root or a branch across the track, ploughed up by the harvesting equipment working in [...]

At an open meeting in Furnace Village Hall we heard about a feasibility study into building a new haul road south of the Leacainn that would take timber lorries and possibly quarry lorries stright to a new pier at Furnace. Ian Arnold of Argyll Timber Transport Group and Nicola Debnam from Argyll and Bute Council [...]