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'Mowi plans to breathe new life into uninhabited Scottish island with multimillion pound investment'
Mowi, Scotland’s largest aquaculture company, has announced its purchase of Sanda Island in Argyll and Bute off the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula. The company plans to establish a salmon farm off the east coast of the island as well as reinvigorate the island and develop its potential as a tourism destination.
The purchase of Sanda Island also includes the former hotel and houses, as well as Campbeltown shipyard and associated property, Sandbank House.
Mowi has begun the early-stage pre-application process with stakeholders and the local community; Southend Community Council are keen to hear your views.
Mowi press release 17th Feb: Mowi plans to breathe new life into uninhabited Scottish island with multimillion pound investment - MOWI - Scotland
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Sanda Island Scottish Visitor Levy - Argyll and Bute Consultation,
Message from Counsillor Jim Lynch, leader of Argyll and Bute Council
People in council areas across Scotland are considering a visitor levy for their area and we would like you to have the same chance to consider one for Argyll and Bute.
Why? Because at a time when funding for public services is shrinking, a visitor levy is an option for raising investment to sustain local services used by visitors, as well as residents, and to keep the area as a top visitor attraction.
Support for individual tourism businesses, or for extending the tourism season are examples of how levy income could be used. Services used by the visitor economy, and so could benefit from levy funding, include for example, waste, roads, transport and leisure services.
We are running a 12-week consultation, from Thursday 16 January until Thursday 10 April 2025, and invite you to take the time to find out more about what a levy could mean for Argyll and Bute, and then give your view.
What services would people want income from a levy to be spent on, if one was introduced? What support would tourism businesses like with managing a levy? For anyone against a visitor levy, how else would they see the visitor economy being funded in future?
These are some of the questions we are inviting views on. You can find more information on our website, and over the next 12 weeks we will be providing updates:
- Weekly through our news round up email subscription, which is a briefing on general council and other news
- Our new Visitor Levy email update service
- Regularly as required on our website and social media channels
- We are also organising a series of information events over the next 12 weeks. We will announce further information about these soon.
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