Issue - meetings

Report by Executive Director – Development and Infrastructure Services

A report which provided an overview of the work of the Council in attracting inward investment into Argyll and Bute from the screen industries and the economic opportunities that this brings to the area including the opportunities to promote and market the area as well as the increased opportunity that this provides from a tourism perspective.

Decision

The Committee noted the content of the report and the accompanying presentation both of which provided an update on the service that the Council offer to the screen industries, the resulting enquiries that they receive, productions that are being filmed in Argyll and Bute, the economic benefit that results and the benefits that this brings in attracting tourism to the area.

(Reference:  Report by Executive Director – Development and Infrastructure Services dated 9 December 2015, submitted)