Calgary house objections surpass 500

What began as local outrage has become a fully fledged campaign with supporters from all over the UK.

In the weeks since plans for a new four bedroom modern home along Calgary’s old pier track were spotted on Argyll and Bute Council’s planning portal, community figures have created a social media campaign to fight against them.

Videos and an entire website detailing how to object have been created and widely shared, with tens of new letters written every day.

One of those many, many objection letters comes from former Oban Times columnist Daniel Brooks, the Mullman himself. 

Before his comeback to column writing, Daniel said that the plan even being considered was "insanity" and warned of the detrimental effect it could have on the area’s wildlife.

"It’s a beautiful wild stretch of coastline," he said, "and thousands of tourists enjoy visiting it every year. 

"There’s at least two active otter holts that wouldn’t just be disturbed but completely destroyed by this development. Otters build under the track, the track which they’re going to widen.

"One of those holts has been their since I was a teenager, some 40 something years. It’s crucial to countless otters in the area, it’s a vital for a female otter, male otters in the area she breeds with, new cubs and old cubs.

"There is also regularly golden eagles hunting over that site, we might even end up loosing those pair that breed up there. 

"The rare Slender Scotch Burnet Moth and Transparent Burnet Moth live up there too.

"One of the biggest reasons tourists come to Mull is because its still a wild place. It’s rare now in the world to find wild untouched stretches of coastline, because it’s all getting developed.

"It’s the number one wildlife tourism destination in the UK now. 

"This is just some rich property developer down in London who wants to make an extra buck. 

"There’s no end to the objections that you can make for this plan. Surely you can’t ignore that many objections."