THE Balemartine schoolhouse playing field on the Isle of Tiree will be leased to the Balemartine Residents’ Association for 21 years at a peppercorn rent of £1 per annum, following a full council meeting at Argyll and Bute’s headquarters at Kilmory last Thursday.
The association plans to establish a ‘usable green space and community garden’ on the disused council-owned land, valued at £27,000, for ‘local people to have access to play and learn’.
Council officers, who recommended the lease, said: ‘The do-nothing option would see the playing field unused, with the council potentially occurring annual maintenance costs.