Major success for Campbeltown’s all weather pitch campaign

Yesterday’s Drop-in at Campbeltown Town Hall saw a very marked success for the campaign to get the provision of an all weather pitch at Kinloch Road included in the Campbeltown CHORD initiative.

Arranged by Argyll and Bute Council, the 11.00am-7.00pm session was designed to make the latest information on the range of projects and initiatives for the town available to residents in one place at one time.

The all weather pitch campaign had a table at the event and was asking visitors to sign a request for the pitch to be adopted by CHORD.

For Argyll has been – and will continue – energetically supporting this campaign. As is obvious from the evidence in the previous articles we have published on the matter, the case is unarguable.

Campbeltown’s strength of community commitment to involvement in football, in the past and today, is the highest in Argyll, yet it remains the only Argyll town of any substance not to have such a resource. And this is in the context of Campbeltown’s young folk being perpetually short of things to do – with consequent disruptions from time to time.

For Argyll has supported those driving the campaign in calling for people in the town to make the effort to get to the Drop-in session at some point and register their support

Yesterday, to the credit of the organisers, people rolled in to sign support at the rate of over one a minute.

By the end of the day, there were around 400 names on the register.

This is good for everyone – for the all weather pitch campaigners, for the CHORD project with interest clearly running high – and for the town, with real evidence that it is on the move and the move is upwards.