In, HCWG launched its campaign to Save Castle Woods, eventually generating over 300 letters of objection to Osborne Interiors’ planning application to develop a 72-unit housing estate on the site of the woods. The company subsequently put the land up for sale but discussions with a major residential developer fell through. We wrote offering to Osborne Interiors offering to negotiate the purchase of the land for use as a community woodland. For more information, see the reports at:
Helensburgh’s Castle Woods saga: developer backs off but with a decoy on Cumberland Avenue
Castle Woods: Osborne Interiors home free in Helensburgh Advertiser
TV report on progress of Castle Woods Campaign
Campaign launched to save Helensburgh’s Castle Woods
Helensburgh development sees council planners go for open source decision taking
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