Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority has produced its Report on Consultation, which is their report on the results of the initial consultation on the draft local plan in February 2009. This apparently fed in to their Finalised Draft Local Plan, the consultation period of which ended on 6 April 2010. Copies of their Report on Consultation are available on the National Park website (pdf 3.3mb).
Easter Beach Clean
It was with no small amount of dedication, 10 volunteers, accompanied by two National Park Rangers, gave up their Easter Sunday morning to clean Ardentinny beach. 15 sacks were filled with unsightly and damaging litter and all was recorded for the ‘Adopt a Beach’ statistics.
A big thank you to all those who gave up some time and took part in the Beach Clean on Sunday. The participants were, Jimmy Gordon, Brian Tweddle, Sandra Tweddle, David Hall, Cathy Riordan, Claire Stone, Eric Stone, Dennis Gower, Roger from Strone. Also thanks to Jo Wilkinson and Margaret Robinson for having the tea and goodies ready at the village hall and David for immortalising the proceedings on Ardentinny.org.
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Also to Jim Downie from National Park who provided the picks, gloves etc. and disposed of the 15 bags of rubbish we collected. This may sound a lot but each time we have a beach clean there is less and less to collect so all the hard work by all the volunteers is paying dividends in making the beach a better place as well as helping to protect the marine life visit https://www.buymyhouse7.com/.
Thanks again from Eileen and Pauline
A New Season
It has been a bad winter for the green with a heavy frost and snow putting it in the deep freeze for a month, thereby restricting growth and work on the green.
However the weather has finally relented a bit, so in preparation for the coming season the green has been solid tined and verti drained, then a top dressing of 10 tons of sand, spring and summer fertiliser, lawn sand and grass seed applied.
During the winter our luxury, “AYE RIGHT ” caravan / changing room finally succumbed to the vagaries of the Ardentinny climate and it was decided that a replacement should be sought. Don Cragg our clubhouse convener, sourced a suitable replacement at Beaver Timber Buildings at Barcaldine. It is now in place and ready for the new season. The old caravan has also been demolished and removed.
2010 Events
Saturday 3rd April at 10 am – Annual General Meeting.
Saturday 17th April at 2:30 pm. – Opening Day – All welcome!
Sunday 2nd May at 10am. – Gents invitation triples.
Sunday 11th July at 10am. – Ladies invitation triples
Watch this space for further news after the A.G.M.
Jim Robinson (Secretary).
Ardentinny Beach Clean
Spring time is beach clean time!
If you’ve got a couple of hours to spare on Sunday 4 April at 10.30am, why not join the community for a Beach Clean at Shepherds Point, Ardentinny.
Help us help keep the Ardentinny shoreline clean and safe, and protect our marine life. Following the beach clean, free tea and biccies will be served in the Village Hall!
All will be made most welcome.
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A community opportunity for Ardentinny?
In response to the Forestry Commission’s advertisement regarding the possible sale of ‘Ardentinny Walled Garden’ in last week’s issue of the Dunoon Observer, Ardentinny.org contacted the Commission for further information.
The Commission’s officer, Ronnie Lee. advised that, as a government department, the first step was to inform and alert local community groups, such as community councils, who may wish to express an interest in the purchase before it goes on the open market. He said that communities had a period of 28 days, from the publication of the advertisement, to send a formal written expression of interest to the Commission with a view to entering into further discussion. If no formal expressions of interest have been received from community bodies within those 28 days, the property can then go on the open market.
Mr. Lee agreed that this information could also be made public on ardentinny.org and kindly sent us a copy of the plans (download available below) and the information booklet entitled National Forest Land Scheme which can be downloaded from the Forestry Commission website.
Ardentinny.org has written to the Convener of the Community Council, and copied to all its members, requesting that this be included in the agenda of their AGM on 6th April and that they elicit the views of the community on this potentially exciting opportunity for Ardentinny before it is lost.
Download location plan (pdf 428kb)
Download National Forest Land Scheme (pdf 1.51mb)
The Walled Garden, Ardentinny.
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