Rhu and Shandon Community Council

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

This covers the following 8 areas

1. Open Spaces and Horticulture ( under development)
2. Local Action on Knotweed
3. Knotweed:The facts
4. Flooding in Shandon
5. Damage to the seawall  Click here for more information

• The Community Council is are concerned that scrub, large trees and knotweed are all damaging the seawall.

  • In the past , the Council had a maintenance plan in place and the trees and scrub were cut back every two years
  • There is now no maintenance plan in place. 
  • We have been lobbying for action and a start has been made on some stretches.
  • There is still much more to do. 

      5. Dangerous Weeds

      6. Highlandman and Torr Forests

      7. Air Pollution in Rhu

      8. Letrault and Stuckenduff Woodlands