Save Castle Toward

At a busy Toward memorial hall on Thursday evening (28th May 2015) The SCCDC held thier first AGM since the stalled bid to buy the Castle Toward estate. Current chairman Alan Stewart addressed the attendees at the hall and presented them with a stark warning about the...

"SCCDC calling AGM and seeks local support to plan the next strategy."

Castle Toward still needs you!

For the AGM to be a success we would require 10% of the members to attend to be quorate: at least 26 in attendance.  Please confirm that kindly you can come in adva...

Today, February the 17th 2015, South Cowal Community Development Company received confirmation that its community right to buy of the Castle Toward Estate had been "extinguished" from the government files. In an email from the Land Unit in Edinburgh the Scottish Minist...

 Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has ugred Argyll and Bute council to negotiate with the local community group in South Cowal over the purchase of the Castle Toward estate. At a busy session of first ministers questions Nicola Sturgeon was asked by MSP Mike R...

The Scottish government has stepped into the ongoing saga surrounding the community buyout of the Castle Toward estate.

This has been copied from Mike Russell MSP's social media feed; 

Michael Russell welcomes Alex Neil's intervention in Castle Towar...

At a full meeting of the South Cowal Community Development Company (SCCDC) on Tuesday the 20th of January 2015 it was unanimously decided both by the directors and steering group of the charity to decline Argyll and Bute councils offer of a one million pound loan. The...

 At rally organised by supporters of the Castle Toward buyout group on Saturday a very busy Queens Hall in Dunoon heard impassioned pleas from cross party politcans for Argyll and Bute councilors to re-think their "NO" discount to the Castle Toward community buyout gro...

  At the Policy and resource commitee held in Kilmory, the HQ for Argyll and Bute council, the local authority decided not to offer the community group any discount in relation to the Castle Toward Estate purchase. Instead the local authority officials voted 9 to 5 in...

 SCCDC were extremely disappointed to find that the council appears to not have put in every effort that was needed in evaluating the copious information that was requested of us back in early September, particularly given the potential that this project has to transfo...