The 2-Minute Objection

Send Your Objection

If none of these open your email, copy the template above, open your email manually, and paste it into a new message to planning.olandi@argyll-bute.gov.uk with subject “Objection to Application 26/00126/PP”.

• Have you visited Calgary Bay? What did you see or experience?
• Have you seen wildlife there? (Otters, eagles, seals, birds, butterflies?)
• Are you affected by the housing shortage? Do you know someone who is?
• Do you use the coastal path that would be diverted?
• Are you a Mull resident, a regular visitor, or someone who cares about Scotland's coast?

Additional Facts You Can Cite

• SEPA has submitted a holding objection on flood risk grounds (18 February 2026) — the Council confirmed no NPF4 Policy 22 exceptions apply
• The Council's own Biodiversity Officer has submitted a holding objection (18 February 2026), confirming the site is within the LNCS and requiring extensive ecological surveys before consent
• The ecology survey was done in November (outside survey season) — the Biodiversity Officer confirms this is inadequate
• No heritage setting assessment for two listed buildings within 250m
• Five planning applications at Calgary in 18 months with no cumulative assessment
• The planning agent has professional experience in rural affordable housing (51 homes delivered in Bowmore, Islay). NPF4 Policy 17 (demonstrable rural housing need) is not addressed in the Planning Statement
• No biodiversity enhancement plan submitted (mandatory under NPF4 Policy 3(c))
• Applicant ticks “No flood risk” on the form — SEPA's holding objection confirms otherwise
• A previous application at Calgary Bay (ref 15/00865/PP) for a simple agricultural shed was refused on planning grounds that remain directly applicable
• An environmental engineering geologist has calculated the drainage system would produce sewage effluent at 4–6 times the environmental standard at realistic occupancy
• The application's red line boundary does not appear to extend to the public road — a potential procedural defect
• The proposed waste pipe route runs close to Calgary Dun, an Iron Age defensive site recorded on the national heritage record — no heritage or archaeological assessment submitted
• Dozens of confirmed Mull residents have objected. Not a single person on the island has written in support
• Friends of Calgary Bay, who manage the SSSI land, have submitted a detailed objection identifying 69 vascular plant species on site — far more than the November survey recorded
• According to Friends of Calgary Bay, the existing access track is only 1.9m wide. Fire service access requires a minimum of 3.7m — the application proposes 3.5m with passing places
• The nearest electricity supply is approximately 800m from the site (Friends of Calgary Bay submission)
• Three additional housing plots at Calgary are already for sale, marketed nationally by Bidwells — raising cumulative impact concerns
• Butterfly Conservation Scotland has submitted an expert letter (27 February 2026) identifying a Transparent Burnet moth colony along the proposed access road, monitored for decades through the Species on the Edge project. The November PEA recorded no lepidoptera
• A former Scottish Agricultural College Senior Adviser (Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies) who professionally assessed this exact site found it qualified for environmental protection due to its floristic diversity
• A Mull wildlife recorder has provided specific grid references for otter foraging runs, otter resting areas, pine marten scat, and rare White Script Lichen — none recorded in the November ecology survey

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