Oban Community Council Minutes of meeting held on Monday 29th ...

Thank you very much for your quick response, which I will take back to the <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Council</strong>.
The package <strong>of</strong> documents I took from the Register Office lists all the parcels <strong>of</strong> land which your
father had disposed <strong>of</strong>, although it didn't include maps.
My personal response (and I am not a lawyer) to the points you raise would be:
I appreciate your concern over the legal status <strong>of</strong> 'in perpetuity', and this would have to be
established. Certainly if a <strong>Community</strong> Company were to take over the land on the basis that it
was all Open Space, and then decide that some part <strong>of</strong> it was not essential to this, then there
would have to be some clause to allow you at least a share <strong>of</strong> the gain; for example if a some
land at the S end near the Water Tank was deemed to be surplus.
I would certainly not be looking to 'gentrify' the area, whose wildness is part <strong>of</strong> its attraction.
Apart from improving access to the core <strong>of</strong> the site, the only improvements which had been
suggested were some protection against the occasional, but serious, injuries when people fall <strong>of</strong>f
the crags. Sadly. I feel the some protection to the remains <strong>of</strong> the hydro might be insisted upon.
The <strong>Community</strong> Right to buy always requires the establishment <strong>of</strong> community support for the
project, and the establishment <strong>of</strong> a an appropriate body with suitable expertise. <strong>Oban</strong> has, in
Atlantis Leisure, one <strong>of</strong> the first substantial <strong>Community</strong> Enterprises, and I am sure that we would
be able to create an excellent one for this purpose as well. If you have visited <strong>Oban</strong> recently, you
will realise that it has grown significantly in recent years, and there is eagerness to create the
future <strong>Oban</strong>, within which the Hydro will always be a central feature.
Thank you again for responding so promptly.
On 03/10/2012 12:32, moliddell@aol.com wrote:
Dear Mr Martin
Thank you for your letter. For information my brother Ian now lives in Lochgilphead so
has not received your letter, but has asked me to communicate with you on behalf <strong>of</strong>
both <strong>of</strong> us. I have copied him in on this email.
Our father disposed <strong>of</strong> some parts <strong>of</strong> the old Ardchonnel Estate (including Ardchonnel
House) over many years so the exact boundaries <strong>of</strong> our retained ownership <strong>of</strong> the
land around this area can be quite complex in parts. When work commitments permit
I will access the relevant deeds, but in the meantime it would be helpful if you could
please clarify the exact area <strong>of</strong> land in which you are interested and for which you
have received documentation from the Register <strong>of</strong> Sasines?
Address for correspondence: <strong>Oban</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Council</strong>, 13 Dungallan Terrace OBAN PA34 4PB