Ardentinny Community Trust Newsletter
Download the October, 2018 issue of Glenfinart Walled Garden newsletter (PDF).
Ardentinny Church 179 years on.. The bell falls silent
Queen Victoria was just 20, the first commercial electric telegraph line came into use and Ireland was hit by the worst cyclone in 300 years. It was 1838, and the Douglas Family (the then Laird of Glenfinart) had commissioned a small church on the banks of Loch Long. Last weekend Ardentinny Church held its …
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Racy Fair brings Fun For All
Glenfinart Walled Garden’s Harvest Fair delivered all its usual treats by way of food, drink and entertainment in its beautiful garden surroundings. However, the Fundraising 'Quickest Quackers' Rubber Duck Race down the River Finart was the highlight of the day. During and since the Garden’s Easter Eggstravaganza, a place in the race could be secured …
Ardentinny Renewables Trust – Funding Application Decisions
Ardentinny Renewables Trust met on the 20 August to discuss and decide on its first funding applications. Click here to download the Minutes.
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Possibility of additional hydro projects in Ardentinny
Co-Hydrover Ltd. and Partners are studying the possibility of operating two additional hydro electric projects in Ardentinny, i.e., at the Coull Burn and Old School Burn, the latter being the burn beside the village car park and presumably so-called because of its proximity to the original Old School, i.e., Glencairn Cottage.
Regarding The Coull Burn Project, the contractor, Robert Brakes who was also representing his project partner Co-Hydrover, recently met with members of the Village Hall Committee along with Dougie Menzies, Chair of Ardentinny Renewables Trust. The object of the meeting was to discuss the possibility of erecting a pole on village hall land in exchange for a cheaper electricity tariff for the hall.
The turbine would be situated on Forestry Commission land, for which they will receive 20% of the project’s profits and the proposal is to connect to the grid by bringing an underground cable across the road and connecting it to a pole to be erected on village hall ground. In exchange, the hall will receive a reduced electricity tariff while the turbine is running, as will proprietors of other property through which the cable runs. Continue reading “Possibility of additional hydro projects in Ardentinny”
