Latest plans
Planning applications submitted to Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park w/b December 17.
ABERFOYLE Display of advertisement (double bay lectern) at David Marshall Lodge, Trossachs Road for Miss Anne Gilchrist.
BALQUHIDDER Modular building for class 7 (Hotel) use at Monachyle Mhor Hotel for Mr Tom Lewis.
CALLANDER Formation of bellmouth and 1500m forestry access track at Balameanoch Wood for Mr George Anthony Cameron.
DRYMEN Works to trees covered by a TPO - reduce crown one ash, dismantle section one ash, remove limbs one ash, reduce lower limbs of three beech and remove hanging/cracked limbs two oak at Westpoint, 4 Winnock Court for Mrs Grace Strachan.
GARTMORE Porch to front elevation, painting of external stonework, installation of replacement windows and installation of roof vents, siting of oil tank in rear garden at Schean Cottage, Main Street for Mr David Ford.
GARTOCHARN Formation of temporary access track (retrospective) at land adjacent to Gartenwall, Old School Road for Mr Chris Doherty.
Park planning schedule at LLTNPA HQ, Balloch or via lochlomond-trossachs.org.
More than £60,000 has been donated to seven charities selected by Dollar Academy pupils through their 2018 sponsored walk, a biennial event that celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.
The walk, which took place in September 2018, has been a fixture of life at the school since it was established in 1969 and has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for local, national and international charitable causes.
The original idea sprang from a group of boarding pupils who were caught breaking school rules. Taking their Housemaster’s advice to spend their time ‘doing something useful’, they planned a walk to raise money for the homeless. Fifty years on, current pupils and staff were joined on the 12-mile trek by the founders of the walk.
Shelter Scotland was the first charity to benefit from the funds raised back in 1969 and Dollar Academy’s donation of £2377.50 was used to help set up the organisation. In honour of this, they were selected as an additional beneficiary in 2018, along with six other charities chosen by the school’s Charities Committee: The Uphill Trust, Mary’s Meals, Alzheimer Scotland, My Name’5 Doddie, CHAS and Seamab School.
Graeme Brown, director Shelter Scotland, said: “Shelter Scotland’s early existence was given a huge boost by the activities of organisations like Dollar Academy, and thousands of others, who organised sponsored walks to help us set up in Scotland in the late 1960s.
“This year we’ve been marking our 50th anniversary and it is really heartening to know that people of all ages are still supporting us as we work and campaign to end homelessness and bad housing for good.
“Shelter Scotland is able to give advice and support to people who are homeless or living in bad housing because of fundraising activities like this.”
Dollar Academy rector David Knapman said: “Volunteering goes hand in hand with our values. We urge all pupils to work hard, be kind and get involved, and the Biennial Walk exemplifies this.”