PROJECTS across Argyll and Bute could be set for a cash boost after funding allocations were recommended by council officers.
Councillors have been recommended to allocate £250,000 of Crown Estate Scotland funding to Tarbert Harbour Authority’s plans for improvements.
A grant of £150,000 to Tayinloan Youth Club has also been recommended for a cycle pump track, for which the council recently granted planning permission.
The Otter Ferry Maritime Community has also been earmarked to receive £62,000 in order to replace its current pontoon.
Council projects for business grants, and work at Helensburgh Skating Pond, are also set to benefit, with £350,000 and £55,000 respectively, under recommendations in a report.
The document will be considered by the authority’s policy and resources committee at its meeting on Thursday, May 21.
Some other allocations of Crown Estate funding, including £72,000 of food bank grants, have already been approved by the full council at its meeting in February.
On the Tarbert Harbour project, executive director Kirsty Flanagan said: “Crown Estate funding will enable the project to move to delivery and will deliver essential improvements to the harbour infrastructure, supporting both commercial and recreational activity.
“The project will deliver a new vessel launch and recovery slipway, a dedicated kayak and small craft launch platform, a dedicated boat wash down facility, create two new [full-time equivalent posts] and extension of the existing car park, creating additional capacity for vessel storage and increasing village car parking capacity.”
On the pump track, she said: “£190,000 of match funding secured by the Tayinloan Youth Club to date and the Crown Estates funding will result in a fully funded project enabling delivery of a pump track in 2026. This project builds on previous investment in local hall and park.”
Ms Flanagan added: “Otter Ferry Maritime Community need to replace their current pontoon, which has reached the end of its useful life.
“The pontoon connects to other communities around the Lochside and brings boats to upper Loch Fyne, benefiting the community and neighbouring places.”
In the report, the policy and resources committee is recommended to “Approve the allocation of the Crown Estate funding for 2026/27 to the projects outlined… and note that a further report will be brought back to a future policy and resources committee with proposals for any remaining allocations of Crown Estates funding following confirmation of 2026/27 budgets from the Scottish Government.”
