Osborne Interiors pursue the dance of the chain saws in Castle Woods
The redoubtable Helensburgh Community Woodland Group has used Freedom of Information legislation to establish that Helensburgh developers, Osborne Interiors, are again pursuing development in Castle...
View ArticleHelensburgh development sees council planners go for open source decision taking
Planning is traditionally the sticky toffee pudding of local politics, with secret ingredients often producing winning results.However, we are seeing welcome evidence that planners at Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleBaillie tells Helensburgh developer to clean up Cumberland Avenue
Local MSP Jackie Baillie, has written to controversial Helensburgh developer, Osborne Interiors, asking them to clean up their site at Cumberland Avenue.Jackie Baillie and Helensburgh Central...
View ArticleHelensburgh’s Castle Woods saga: developer backs off but with a decoy on...
Last Thursday’s edition (13th September) of the Helensburgh Advertiser carried an advertisement from Osborne Interiors offering Castle Woods and Jutland Court for sale.This would indicate that...
View ArticleLibDem politicians visit eyesore felled site at Helensburgh’s Cumberland Avenue
Argyll and Bute’s MP, Alan Reid, with Helensburgh Councillor Aileen Morton, visited Cumberland Avenue in Helensburgh on Thursday 27th September to inspect what remains a wasteland after last year’s...
View ArticleSo what is happening at Helensburgh’s Jutland Court?
Just beside Castle Woods – an Open Space Protected Area [OSPA] in Helensburgh – is Jutland Court, a series of derelict blocks of flats with a total of 42 apartments, bought from the Ministry of...
View ArticlePlanners under scrutiny on developers Osbornes’ manoeuvres in Helensburgh
[Updated below 18th October] With the decision by Helensburgh developers, Osborne Interiors, not to demolish the derelict blocks of former naval flats at Jutland Court which they recently acquired,...
View ArticleCommunity Woodland Group take initiative: public meeting on Helensburgh’s...
Helensburgh Community Woodland Group has decided to seize the initiative to save Castle Woods from housing development in creating a well managed community woodland for the common good.Everyone...
View ArticlePublic support for Helensburgh Communty Woodland Group’s management plan for...
[Updated] Locals responded enthusiastically to Helensburgh Communty Woodland Group’s (HCWG) draft management plan for the town’s Castle Woods, when it was presented to a public meeting held at Lomond...
View ArticleCouncil follows through: tree replacement order served on Osborne Interiors
On 14th February 2013, Argyll and Bute Council served notice on the OK Corral – along with a Tree Replacement Notice served on the director of controversial Helensburgh developers, Osborne Interiors:...
View ArticleCouncil planners show damaging weakness in follow up to enforcement at...
Every step gained in Argyll and Bute planning department's assertion of the authority of law and of statutory regulations seems to be neutered by a subsequent and entirely unnecessary retreat. Where,...
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