- Present and apologies: Present: Ed Pybus, Vicky Wince, John McColl, John Butcher, Nicola Greenall, Catriona Renfrew. Apologies, Nikki Brown and Robin Webster.
- Minutes of April 2026 meeting. Agreed
- Declarations of interest. John Butcher, owner of holiday let, for rally item.
- Matters arising:
- Kilfinan Community Forest Board: CR to check out why no info on Board meetings.
- Mid Argyll discussion on Community Energy EP will flag if any requirement to include this on a future agenda.
- Resilience planning follow up with SSE. CR to action communication with local food businesses and follow up information requested from SSEN on compensation payments.
- Children’s and library issues update. Live Argyll EP to contact interested people and see how to progress offer of potential flexible library services. EP to follow up meeting with Council officers. Noted that TDDT childcare survey had yielded limited responses.
- Community Broadband not being progressed.
- Otter Ferry and Glenan bins CR to raise lack of progress at area committee. Agreed that we need to report through council system of issues with rubbish overflows. CR for Otter Ferry and RW for Glenan.
- Community Planning Housing and Wellbeing meetings. NB not present to report back.
- Sewage discharge issues. CR paper set out responses from council environmental health and SEPA. Council environmental health has no concerns about continued discharge of sewage directly into the sea. Agreed actions, CR to:
- write to Scottish Water to establish the position with the limited sewage system.
- engage further with SEPA to see if they will act on untreated discharges. JB to share information from Cornwall.
- TDDT minutes and action plan constructive meeting with TDDT lots of discussion on petrol station development and beginning to plan for the tank slip future. Childcare survey had limited response, agreement that homecare is a major problem, CR has shared community council webinar details with Mick Eyre, this may be something we can work on together.
- Speed limits: final proposals made to the Council and Council response seems positive, will be shared. EP
- Rally Update. ABC have communicated they have granted a motor sport order and related traffic regulation with any of the changes KCC have asked for. Agreed CR to
- write to council officers challenging granting of order when KCC requests for route changes have been ignored and the legislation requires that community views have been considered.
- Report KCC position on Facebook
- raise at Area Committee and directly with elected members.
- check whether previous council officer answer that traffic order would not bar pedestrian access is reflected in the traffic orders now published
- AGM Planning. Agreed to start routine meeting at 16.00 and switch to AGM at 17.00. We would have a short formal meeting, covering convenor and treasurers report and officer elections. Then informal drop in style discussions with the community. CR to draft annual report and communication for comment. Final version of report would be printed as serve as a start point for discussion on the day.
- Councillor engagement. Draft letter to other CC’s reviewed, EP to finalise, including suggestion that convenors have a short, remote monthly meeting with 3 councillors to improve engagement without making unrealistic demands on their time.
- Planning report.
- One application for non-material change to a previous application.
- Agreed NG will check out what is proposed in dredging at Portavadie ferry.
- Meeting reports
- Community Planning. Nothing to report
- Partners meeting Strachur CR
- Ferry stakeholders group EP call booked with CalMac to discuss winter timetable. EP will invite to AGM.
- Ardlamont Forestry plan EP is preparing a response for 31st May including issues about restoring paths working with Liz Pryor.
- Health and social care issues CR has reviewed issues with Kyles practice manager and sent off request for engagement to local Health and Social Care Partnership manager.
- AOCB
- Elections CR to circulate nomination forms and publicise through Facebook.
- Website support agreed to return to his after the AGM and elections
- Future meeting dates for 2026. Next meeting set dates for the rest of the year.
- 30th June business meeting 16.00 and AGM 17.00
- 25th August at 18.00
- 29th September at 15.00
- 27th October 18.00
- 24th November 15.00
Draft Minutes Tuesday May 26th
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