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Coll Community Centre

Introduction

Following our visit in January, where we presented three different approaches to the
building, we have received everybody’s feedback and compiled your comments. These
ideas have been taken, along with our improved understanding of the ground conditions
on site, and integrated into the proposed design for the Coll Community Centre. It is our
intention to present this to you before proceeding to the next stage…….

The Development Trust require to consider the cost and take this into account in the
Business Plan and applications for funding.

Architect’s Statement

It became clear as we listened to your comments last time that there wasn’t one preferred
option between ‘The Courtyard’, ‘The Steading’ or ‘The Church’. Rather than confining
yourselves to a ‘favourite’ or ‘least favourite’, you noted the strengths and weakness’ in
each approach. This has allowed us to take the best things of all options, and hopefully
avoid the aspects which gave concern.

Therefore, the proposed building might initially appear to be a departure from what we
discussed previously, but we believe it to be an improvement which addresses the key
issues.

Key Issues

Budget/Funding

Ground Conditions

Flexibility

Appropriate elevations and massing

Contact

Local Development Officer

Development Coll

Middle Pier

Arinagour

Isle of Coll

PA78 6SY Tel 01879 230 000 e-mail emma@developmentcoll.co.uk

With regard to the April '08 PDF file below, please note repositioning of bunkhouse element following community consultation.

On May 23rd, the designs for An Cridhe’s planning application were submitted to the Oban Planning office. It is estimated that this process will take at least two months. The architects, Karen Anderson and Michael Holliday will be visiting Coll on the 9th/10th June to discuss further details of building design. You can view the latest designs in the design process section.

As part of the project to design and fundraise for the proposed new community centre, the working group decided to run a competition to find a name for the new building.

We received over 50 entries, so many thanks to everyone who took part.

The working group decided on the name in two rounds of voting.
By the time we got to the second round we were down to five nominations.

The final vote was unanimously in favour of An Cridhe.

The group was very gratified to then find out that this had been entered under the names of ALL the primary school children!
However, this led to slight difficulties over the prize, which had been stated as 2 free tickets on Highland Airways’, Connel to Coll run.
The working group has organised a new prize, and the school children have now all been invited to the First Port to enjoy a dish of ice cream. The two tickets will be held over for another fundraising event. Many thanks to Highland Airways for their kind donation.

Now that we have a name we have asked local graphic designer, Ross Evans of Rosco&Ross design to come up with a logo for An Cridhe.

Derivation :-

Cridhe pronounced cree ( noun – male) of a place meaning Heart – Centre of a person Beloved or Heroic.

Cridhe na baille – centre of the village

Alasdair cridhe nan gleann – beloved Alasdair of the glens