Argyll and Bute Council
is to consider options for a 'bird control policy' to tackle the area's gull
and pigeon nuisance.
Craig Borland
09:16Tuesday 19 January
2016
Proposals for an enhanced
‘bird control service’ to tackle the seagull nuisance in Rothesay and other
Argyll and Bute towns look set to be rejected this week.
Instead members of Argyll
and Bute Council will be asked to approve only an ‘advisory service’ in which
property owners and the public will be told of measures they can take
themselves to deal with the problem.
The issue is set to be
considered at a meeting of the full council in Lochgilphead on Thursday.
A report prepared for
that meeting by the council’s regulatory services manager, Alan Morrison,
reveals that in the last nine years more than half of all bird nuisance
complaints received by the authority have come from the Bute and Cowal area.
Mr Morrison’s report also
points out that roosting feral birds have also contributed to the poor
condition of buildings renovated as part of Rothesay’s Townscape Heritage
Initiative.
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