FOUR holiday cabins have been proposed at a hotel in Oban.
The Dungallan House Hotel, on Gallanach Road, is the subject of the application by Michelle Kelso to Argyll and Bute council for planning permission.
The authority is expected to rule on the proposal by early December, with the public now able to view the plans and submit feedback.
A design and access statement by planning agents Bracewell said: “The design concept is straightforward: a compact group of contemporary cabins placed on the existing ledge and designed to sit quietly within the rock and vegetation setting.
“The cabins are intentionally simple in form. Each has a clear gabled feature with generous front glazing and a lower attached element, producing a compact but characterful accommodation unit. The design relies on repetition to create coherence, but avoids an overly rigid or terrace-like arrangement.
“The cabins are deliberately set out in a slightly staggered composition, with subtle shifts in position that break up their collective mass and avoid the impression of a continuous straight line of development.
“Spacing between the cabins, combined with planting threaded between the units, ensures that each cabin reads as a discrete element within a shared landscape framework.
“Each cabin is compact in plan but arranged to maximise outlook, daylight and a sense of generosity. The principal glazed gable elevation opens the accommodation towards the view, while the attached side element provides a more solid counterpoint and practical internal support space.
“The consistent cabin type also assists the clarity of the overall composition, while the landscape and slight positional shifts provide enough variation to avoid monotony.”
The statement added: “In design terms, the proposal is intentionally modest and site-responsive. It is for this reason that the cabins have been kept low, slightly staggered, materially recessive and visually subordinate to both the retained landscape framework and to Dungallan House itself.”
