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Argyll and Bute Council · 18 December 2025
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Argyll and Bute Council
Comhairle Earra-Ghàidheal Agus Bhòid 
Executive Director:  Douglas Hendry 
Kilmory, Lochgilphead, PA31 8RT
Tel:  01546 605522
DX 599700 LOCHGILPHEAD 
11 December 2025 
NOTICE OF MEETING 
A meeting of the ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE will
be held ON A HYBRID BASIS IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, KILMORY, LOCHGILPHEAD AND
BY MICROSOFT TEAMS on THURSDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2025 at 10:30 AM, which you are
requested to attend. 
Douglas Hendry
Executive Director 
BUSINESS 
1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE 
2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST 
3. MINUTES (Pages 5 - 12)  
Environment, Development and Infrastructure Committee held on 11 September 2025 
4. LATEST UPDATE ON THE SETTLEMENT PROJECT SUPPORT OFFICER ACTIONS
(Pages 13 - 26)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Economic Growth
* 5. ANNUAL STATUS AND OPTIONS REPORT 2025-26 (Pages 27 - 66)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Infrastructure 
6. SUPPORTING OUR POLLINATORS (Pages 67 - 96)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 
7. CEMETERY ASSET - ANNUAL REPORT (Pages 97 - 118)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 
8. TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDERS - TO FOLLOW 
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 
9. TEMPORARY TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDERS - REVIEW OF CHARGING AND
ADVERTISING - TO FOLLOW

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Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 
10. ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STRATEGY - PROGRESS AND PROPOSED
DELIVERY MODEL (Pages 119 - 152)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services
* 11. REVIEW OF ROADS AND INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES - UPDATE (Pages 153 - 168)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 
12. LOCAL FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT PLANS - S37 INTERIM UPDATE (Pages 169 - 206)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 
13. BUS INFRASTRUCTURE FUND (Pages 207 - 210)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 
14. REST AND BE THANKFUL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS REPORT (Pages 211 - 222)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Infrastructure Services 
15. RESPONSE TO SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION ON CHARGING FOR
WASTE AND RECYCLING COLLECTIONS (Pages 223 - 234)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Infrastructure Services 
16. WASTE MANAGEMENT UPDATE (Pages 235 - 246)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Infrastructure 
17. SPEED LIMIT REVIEW (Pages 247 - 252)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 
18. SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT DRAFT CIRCULAR ECONOMY STRATEGY (Pages 253 - 258)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Economic Growth 
19. UPDATE ON MEASURES TO PROTECT AGAINST ROCKFALLS ON B8035, GRIBUN,
MULL (Pages 259 - 294)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Infrastructure Services 
20. COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2015 - ALLOTMENTS
WAITING LIST REGISTER (Pages 295 - 298)  
Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Legal and Regulatory Support 
REPORT FOR NOTING 
21. ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE WORK
PLAN 2025/26 (Pages 299 - 302) 
Items marked with an “asterisk” are items, on the basis of information available at the time this
Agenda is published, on which the Committee may not have delegated powers to act, and which
may therefore require to be referred to the Council or another Committee, and that referral may
depend on the decision reached at the meeting. 
Environment, Development and Infrastructure Committee 
Councillor Iain Paterson Councillor John Armour (Chair)
Councillor Graham Hardie Councillor Willie Hume
Councillor Andrew Kain Councillor Jim Lynch
Councillor Tommy MacPherson Councillor Ian MacQuire

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Councillor Luna Martin Councillor Liz McCabe
Councillor Ross Moreland (Vice-Chair) Councillor Gary Mulvaney
Councillor Alastair Redman Councillor William Sinclair
Councillor Andrew Vennard Councillor Peter Wallace   
Contact: Julieann Small, Democratic Services Assistant - 01546 604043