Text-only
banner

Community Resource Project

Home Photo Gallery Calendar Forum
page header image
google icon

its about connecting people with information and connecting people with people


The next meeting of the Community Council will take place on 7:30pm in Parish Church.
     CC web pages here

line
Web Pixie
You can contact the village
Web Pixie via email barbara@lochwinnoch.info or use the contact form.

line
Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional
Buyout Forum Topics

Forum Login

Username

Password

This web page will give you brief and current news of  the right to buy project. Around the middle of November we should have our own ‘proper’ website running which will give much more information about our plans, the background, public consultation exercises and so on.  

In the meantime………………

 

After a long and involved application process, we were finally awarded the 'right to buy’ by the Scottish Executive/Government. This followed the village ballot when around a thousand people turned out to vote, 90% of whom were in favour.

We were then facing another period of hard work trying to get the plan into a final shape, to draw together the sources of money and to get ourselves into a position whereby we could actually put in a bid to buy the site by Nov 17th, the date set by the legislation.

Instead, we very quickly received a letter from the owners’ solicitors saying that the owners were formally withdrawing the property from the market. This, it seems, is a very unusual situation since most other applications, if they get this far, go on to completion. As the right to buy in this case does not involve any element of compulsory purchase we can go no further at this time. However, our claim on the property will continue for up to five years, during which time, if it comes on the market we can buy it and they can only sell it to us. After the five years we could reapply and renew our application.

In the meantime we are continuing to develop our plan and having talks with possible funders and other supporting organisations. We have requested a meeting with the owners to discuss the matter and see if they can’t be persuaded to do the decent thing for the village, and hand back this useful bit of land which is now badly needed for social enterprise.

The LCBG had its AGM on Thursday 13th September. In due course we plan to have a proper public meeting at which more information will be given out and everyone will have the chance to put questions to the group.

If you are interested in helping with the various tasks required to take this project forward, please get in touch:

Alec Harley: 843449. alec.harley@rtel.com

Dave Mellor: 843099 (but away just now). dgmellor@tiscali.co.uk

Thank you

Lochwinnoch Community Buyout Group