Plans for three new houses at Portkil near Kilcreggan have been submitted to Argyll and Bute Council.
The plan by Rosneath Farms was criticised as ‘more ribbon development’ by Sheena Edwards last week – “It is just going to join up with the village in the end,” she told fellow members of Cove and Kilcreggan Community Council.But chairman Nick Davies said the community council did not get involved in planning issues unless there were public representations.
Details of the plan are on the council’s website – search for reference number 16/03219/PPP
Argyll and Bute Council’s Corporate Fraud Investigation Team recovered almost £80,000 in its first year and will continue its anti-fraud activities on a permanent basis.
The team – formed in October 2015 – is responsible for investigating revenue and benefit, council tax, non-domestic rates and other corporate fraud as well as acting as a single point of contact for ongoing housing benefit fraud investigations.
At the end of its first year of operation in September, the team had already detected £175,000 of fraud and successfully recovered almost half of that figure (£79, 535) with work ongoing to recover the remainder of the outstanding money.
The council has now agreed that the two investigators’ posts- which have until now been temporary – should be made permanent on the basis of them being self-financing.
A meeting schedule which has prevented Argyll and Bute councillors attending Cove and Kilcreggan Community Council will be re-examined, it was confirmed this week.
The council’s Helensburgh and Lomond area committee has recently started meeting on Tuesday evening, meaning members cannot be in both Helensburgh and Cove at the same time.
An Argyll and Bute spokesperson said: ““Thank you for bringing this to our attention – it is something we will look into.
“The area committee have been trialling some meetings in the evenings in an effort to make local democracy more accessible to residents.”
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