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We have two community owned buildings opposite each other. One is a fairly shoddy Village Hall, the other is a run down, out of business tea room and we suffer from a lack of parking in the village.

So the majority of people I speak to (and I agree), say knock down the Tea Room and make into a Village Hall come Tea Room come Bunk House come information centre, then knock down the Village Hall and make a car park with picnic area.

What happens? This is of course Jura!

We have three organisations (Community run), doing three seperate projects.

1. JDT propose to make the Tea Room into a bunk house come tea room come interpration centre. Cost 拢1 million.

2. Hall Commitee propose to extend and re clad the existing hall. Cost 拢500,000.

3. IATE propose to build a car park north of the Hall by infilling an area presently part of the shore and sea bed. Cost ? Maybe up to 拢500,000.

All the above should be done under one umbrella but all three organisations say there is only funding available for each scheme as proposed. What a waste of money, I bet all three could be done as one project for half the price.

But, as I have been told, my approach is too simplistic and things do not work like that. No wonder the country is in such a mess. Too much red tape, too many people involved and too many fancy ideas.

OH how I yearn for days gone by, when things were much simpler.

Here's another one : A passenger ferry from Craighouse to Crinan.

How's this supposed to work then? Who is going to run it? Surely the operator and crew would need to live on Jura (all four of them) due to the weather conditions - if they were based on Islay or the Mainland how would they get to Craighouse in time for the first sailing, especially if the sea was rough early on but quitened down nearer the departure time.

12 passengers, 6 bikes and packages?

Summer months only, earning 拢60k per year? This equates (I cannot spell) to about 拢2500 per week, this in turn means approx 100 people a week using it at the proposed full adult return price, take into account concessionary and child fares, maybe even 120 to 150 people a week. 15 to 20 people per day, GET REAL.

No ferry crossing in the evening, stay at Crinan Hotel, nice as it is not many Jura people can afford to pay their prices.

Missed the bus because the ferry is late? Do what? Until you can get back to Jura!

The whole thing has not been thought out correctly. ONCE AGAIN!!!!

If something along these lines is ever going to work, it has to be thought out properly and with the wishes of Jura people.

I am all for attracting a few more tourists to Jura but IS THIS THE WAY?

Once again a badly thought out idea and another waste of our money!!

I am really disillusioned in the way that scheme's are thought up just to grab money that is there, using the phrase "well if we don't take it, someone else will"
Leave the money for proper, feasable and commercially viable idea's.

That DO NOT need a subsidy to survive.