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Public feedback will play a key part in developing a draft visitor levy scheme that could be available for three months’ consultation in early 2025.

Making sure children and young people have the best start in life and helping them to achieve success in life are key priorities for ����ֱ��. Supporting mental health and wellbeing is important to this success. To make support easy and more accessible, the Council, working with ����ֱ�� and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is now offering a free new online mental health and wellbeing platform available to all 10-18 year olds.

����ֱ�� is due to start work on the next stage of the Rosneath Active Travel Route, which will see a path being created from ����ֱ�� Road to Clachan Burn, enabling people to walk, cycle, and wheel between the two locations.

����ֱ�� has become the first local authority in Scotland to launch an area-wide mobile coverage survey.

The team at Cardross Crematorium is providing “an excellent service to the local community and beyond”, following a recent inspection.

Community feedback has been key in considering potential sites for a new school campus on Mull and councillors are expected to decide on a preferred site in the coming months.

The £100,000 upgrade of Tarbert play park has completed ahead of schedule and a range of new out-door equipment is ready for the children and young people of the village to enjoy.

Putting children’s rights at the heart of school life, policy and decision-making has led ����ֱ�� to be one of only three local authorities in Scotland to achieve one hundred percent of its Primary and Secondary Schools registered for UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting Schools Award.

The council would like to thank everyone who gave views that will help develop a draft visitor levy scheme for ����ֱ�� and Bute which, if approved for consultation by Council in December, will go out for public consultation in January 2025.

����ֱ�� has welcomed today’s news that it will receive up to £20 million of capital funding from the UK Government for local growth projects in the area.