Comment posted Argyll and Bute planners recognised in award by Royal Town Planning Insititute by Andy MacArthur.
I wonder how many planning awards were given out for the roundabout in Argyll Square Oban where you have to stop and give way? Or the Tescos/Lochavullin mini roundabout that’s completely pointless….mid you the water feature’s nice!
Recent comments by Andy MacArthur
- Negotiations on Seafari Adventures’ proposed fuel facility at Ellenabeich
“5000 litres of petrol is a lot of money”…….and a lot of trailer too
- Mull’s Inverlussa Marine Services wins one year work boat contract from Scottish Salmon Company
Can’t see a closed containment system employing many work boats?So what are we saying here – Congratulations Douglas Wilson on securing the contract but we’d rather you didn’t get the work because salmon farms are bad? Or do we have to see what Rob Edwards thinks first?
- Body of missing Loch Awe angler found
“bonnie place but so dangerous”Tragic – and my sympathies are with the family – but the loch is NOT the danger.
When are we going to stop pussy footing around and admit that alcohol just might play a part in these tragic incidents?
- Scottish Salmon Producers fight back
“Scottish fish farmers use record amounts of parasite pesticides”A record in what respect? The biggest user of cypermethrin (the main sealice treatment) in Argyll isn’t aquaculture
- SaveSeilSound: purpose, issues, actions and institutional failures of responsibility
“while still others, such as zinc and other heavy metals simply remain here for the rest of time.”Am I missing something here……the heavy metals are coming from where exactly?
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It’s my fathers birthday in a couple of days so I ordered him a bottle of his favourite dram from an excellent whisky shop in Helensburgh which a couple of friends of mine own.
Their opinion on the new waitrose is that it will suck the lifeblood out of the town centre. For what is already a tough season for many shop owners will get tougher once trade gets focused away from the centre.
I made a conscious choice to support this shop despite being away at the moment. These artisan shops need our support other wise the burgh faces becoming just another clone town.
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Whiskey?
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I wonder how many planning awards were given out for the roundabout in Argyll Square Oban where you have to stop and give way? Or the Tescos/Lochavullin mini roundabout that’s completely pointless….mid you the water feature’s nice!
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Perhaps you’re looking in the wrong direction – aren’t roundabouts the work of our road engineers, rather than our planners? My favourite hate-object roundabout is the relatively new one on the A82 Alexandria bypass, adorned with traffic lights which – when at green – make it impossible for traffic to stay in lane on the roundabout because it was designed for traffic to enter from a stop. Trucks and buses aren’t able to stay in lane even from a standing start; a real farce, and a dangerous one at that.
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It is far too small, and breaks up a good long straight!
But back on topic; what’s so good about A&Bs forestry strategy? As far I can see it’s “let’s plant trees like it’s still the 80s.”
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‘Water feature’ – nice one.
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