Issue - meetings

The Group considered an update from Duncan MacLachlan, Arrochar and Tarbet Community Development Trust & Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, which provided an update on the Two Lochs Visitor Management Programme. A number of pictures of the ‘Windows on the Loch’ project and a copy of the Two Lochs Visitor Management Project Final Report were included in the agenda pack for the Group’s attention.

Information was provided around the continued funding and success of the A82 layby litter scheme and partnership working to facilitate the Windows on the Loch project.  Duncan highlighted that future plans for the 2022 season would likely be on a reduced scale as the amount of available funding was likely to be considerably lower, however he was hopeful that it would be possible to build on the successful partnership working which had taken place during the 2021 season.  A list of proposed elements of the Two Lochs Programme 2022 was included in the written update for the Group’s information, with Duncan emphasising that these plans were subject to sufficient funding being successfully identified.

Duncan also provided further information in the written update to the Group in relation to the ‘Adopt a Bonnie Banks Bin Scheme’; the ‘Waste Warrior’ litter collection scheme; plans to address site management issues at Tarbet Bay; and plans to provide assistance with improvements to the Luss village warden service.

Discussion took place around the success of the campaign to combat litter, and in particular the success in the amount of material which had been recycled.

Decision

The Helensburgh and Lomond Area Community Planning Group considered and noted the information provided.

(Reference: Update by Duncan MacLachlan, Arrochar and Tarbet Community Development Trust & Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, submitted)