New designated car park could solve congestion

COUNCIL officials are looking for a single site where contractors working on Oban's new high school can leave their vehicles without causing congestion.

Pensioner Angus MacPhee previously made a stand against workmen parking their vans outside his home in Lynn Gardens by creating a barricade of wheelie bins.

Mr MacPhee, 69, is worried the vehicles taking up residents’ parking spaces could block family, friends, nurses and emergency services from getting access to people living there. Mr MacPhee said: ‘I’m sick of it. I want the boys to earn their money, I want the school to get its new site finished but we also want to be left alone and for them to park elsewhere. We’ve had enough of it.’

A spokesman for Argyll and Bute council told The Oban Times: ‘We are currently looking at the feasibility of parking in an area of Mill Park for vehicles associated with the project.’

Councillor Jim Lynch, who has been supporting Mr MacPhee’s campaign, said: ‘One of the areas we are looking at is the old council yard that had the fire but no decision has been made yet. We are looking to see if we can alleviate the problem and make it a bit easier. It could be better if all the site workers were parking in one place.’

He added: ‘I’m also looking to see if I can get some kind of official sign saying ‘residents’ only parking’. We couldn’t enforce it, but it might help.’