There is a campaign to block quarrying in Glen Creran.
THE opposing sides in a row over a planned quarry in Glen Creran near Appin are split on the crucial question of whether there is a shortage of local building sand.
The Argyll-based applicant, A & L McCrae Ltd, which mines aggregates at Barrachander Quarry near Kilchrenan, lodged a planning application in October to extract and process sand and gravel at Glasdrum, in particular high quality building sand for which, it argues, there is a shortage in Argyll and Bute.