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Argyll and Bute Council · 9 December 2025
Back to Helensburgh & Lomond Area Committee — 9 December 2025 and its agenda
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Argyll and Bute Council Comhairle Earra-Ghàidheal Agus Bhòid Executive Director: Douglas Hendry Kilmory, Lochgilphead, PA31 8RT Tel: 01546 602127 Fax: 01546 604435 DX 599700 LOCHGILPHEAD 5 December 2025 NOTICE OF MEETING A meeting of the HELENSBURGH & LOMOND AREA COMMITTEE will be held in the HELENSBURGH CIVIC CENTRE AND BY MICROSOFT TEAMS on TUESDAY, 9 DECEMBER 2025 at 9:30 AM, which you are requested to attend. Douglas Hendry Executive Director BUSINESS 1. APOLOGIES 2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST 3. MINUTE OF THE MEETING OF THE HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND AREA COMMITTEE, HELD ON TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2025 (Pages 5 - 14) 4. PUBLIC QUESTION TIME 5. HELENSBURGH, CARDROSS AND DUMBARTON CYCLEPATH UPDATE (Pages 15 - 30) Report by Executive Director with the responsibility for Development and Economic Growth 6. POLICE SCOTLAND UPDATE (Pages 31 - 34) Update from Inspector Bart Simonis, Police Scotland 7. AREA COMMITTEE QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORTS - FQ2 2025/26 (Pages 35 - 68) Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Customer Support Services 8. ROADS AND INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES UPDATE (Pages 69 - 76) Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 9. COLQUHOUN SQUARE - CHORD LEGACY FUND: PRINCIPLES FOR REINVESTMENT (Pages 77 - 80) Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services.
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10. ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STRATEGY (Pages 81 - 102) Presentation by Project Manager with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services 11. HELENSBURGH SKATING POND IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT (Pages 103 - 112) Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Economic Growth 12. CHARITABLE TRUSTS, BEQUESTS AND TRUST FUNDS (Pages 113 - 118) Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Legal and Regulatory Support 13. ARGYLL AND BUTE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PARTNERSHIP PERFORMANCE REPORT - FQ1 2025/26 (APRIL TO JUNE) (Pages 119 - 134) Report by Senior Manager Performance & Improvement, Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership REPORT(S) FOR NOTING 14. SAKURA CHERRY TREE PROJECT UPDATE (Pages 135 - 138) Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Legal and Regulatory Support 15. DRAFT HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND AREA COMMITTEE WORKPLAN (Pages 139 - 142) 16. NOTICE OF MOTION UNDER STANDING ORDER 13 Dumbarton to Helensburgh – Bus Timetable A new bus timetable, recently introduced on the Dumbarton to Helensburgh route, leaves some Hermitage Academy pupils and parents, who live in Cardross, with a choice of leaving very early, meaning they have to hang around waiting for the school doors to open, or catching the next, later bus which is often delayed and means pupils miss registration or even the start of period one. Helensburgh and Lomond Area Committee, therefore, agrees that the Chair write to SPT and First Bus asking that the service bus timetable between Dumbarton and Helensburgh be adjusted in the morning to allow pupils travelling from Cardross by bus to get to Hermitage Academy in time for registration rather than arriving just in time for the first class. And to also seek the support of Council SPT representative Councillor Gordon Blair and Policy Lead - Roads, Transport and Amenity Services John Armour in seeking this alteration to the timetable. Proposed: Councillor Fiona Howard Helensburgh Central Seconded: Councillor Graham Archibald Hardie Helensburgh Central Helensburgh & Lomond Area Committee Councillor Fiona Howard (Chair)
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Councillor Math Campbell-Sturgess (Vice-Chair) Councillor Maurice Corry Councillor Graham Hardie Councillor Mark Irvine Councillor Paul Donald Kennedy Councillor Ian MacQuire Councillor Gary Mulvaney Councillor Iain Paterson Councillor Gemma Penfold Contact: June Begg, Senior Committee Assistant - 01546 604589