Torsa no longer an island

[webcraft]

Aye, right.

I am sure it never crossed anyone's mind that blocking a tidal channel might require some sort of permission/scoping.

Now try putting in a UPvC window in Ellenabeich... because everyone knows you can't do that...

I've met the Cadzows and found them to be thoroughly pleasant. They are very good farmers and employers, well respected locally, and OK this might have been a genuine rush of blood to the head. Hopefully the original landscape will be sensitively restored and the complex tidal flows in the area will revert to how they were.

But I do hope this is a wake-up call for any other landowners in the area with grandiose schemes who think planning and conservation laws don't apply to them and who assume retrospective planning permission will be granted if there are complaints.

- W

 

[cpedw]

assume retrospective planning permission will be granted

Fortunately, ABC's esteemed planning department weren't involved in this case.

 

[dunedin]

Any news on the causeway being removed and he channel being reinstated? In which case any update on safe depths?

 

[bikedaft]

Sorry, yes, it was removed about 10days or a fortnight ago

 

[dunedin]

Sorry, yes, it was removed about 10days or a fortnight ago

Thanks. Great result. Do you think it is back to the same depth as previously (I appreciate you don’t have Antares Charts technology to do precisely )

 

[awol]

Thanks. Great result. Do you think it is back to the same depth as previously (I appreciate you don’t have Antares Charts technology to do precisely )

Let me know when you are going through so I can upload it to Youtube!

 

[dunedin]

Let me know when you are going through so I can upload it to Youtube!

Should be a nice trip in my dinghy - not sure whether the sparks from the overhead cable would come before or after the sparks from the keel hitting on any yacht attempting the link channel

 

[NormanS]

Should be a nice trip in my dinghy - not sure whether the sparks from the overhead cable would come before or after the sparks from the keel hitting on any yacht attempting the link channel

Yes, cable height "unknown, but quite high in dinghy terms". ?

 

[Scomber]

An Sailean , w side of Lismore seemed to be more or less inaccessible last summer due to tactical placing of long floating ropes, although shown as anchorage on antares and in pilot.

 

[Romeo]

Any news on the causeway being removed and he channel being reinstated? In which case any update on safe depths?

Marine Scotland called for "Remediation to original condition". Poor quality pic of the contractor starting that work:



I have not managed to have a close up look yet, but it does seem Marine Scotland are on the case, and thanks are due to them. If anyone does get the chance to look and measure depth, please do report back to Marine Scotland.

 

[robert_craig0]

Here's a picture taken 13:20 BST 19 June 2022
re taked 13:20 BST19 June 2022

 

[SaltIre]

Here's a picture taken 13:20 BST 19 June 2022
View attachment 137211re taked 13:20 BST19 June 2022

When are they going to finish the work?

 

[penfold]

Perhaps they hope Marine Scotland will let them backslide on finishing the job, as that doesn't look remotely like the original channel.

 

[Betelgeuse]

I notice that Torsa is now up for sale, and wonder whether the remediation to original condition ever got finished...
Wish I had a spare £1.5M.

 

[bikedaft]

Doesn't look like it? Just walked past. What now?

There is still a causeway across the channel, above water at LW, just after neaps.

 

[PAPOFCARDEN]

Sepa backsliding again

 

[bikedaft]

Sepa backsliding again

do they even know of this?

(i have emailed them earlier today.)

it is a fairly remote location.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Doesn't look like it? Just walked past. What now?

There is still a causeway across the channel, above water at LW, just after neaps.

There usually is at low water.

 

[bikedaft]

There usually is at low water.

there never used to be. it was a channel i have used in a dinghy etc.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

there never used to be. it was a channel i have used in a dinghy etc.

Yes there was. I have walked between the two islands over the shallow bits and vehicles forded the gap at low water. There was always a good chunk of seabed exposed at low water at the track ends, to some extent.