Argyll and Bute Council has decided against shutting the only primary school on the island of Luing for good, giving islanders a year to prove its sustainability as part of a battle against depopulation.
It will likely become holiday cottages. Sadly, this is what happens. The Primary School my SO went to is now a fancy Air BnB development and others on the island are too. Completely empty during winter too.
Sounds like a stay of execution so they can shut it next year- how can an islands population possibly go from unsustainable to sustainable in a year without some kind of massive external investment?
New plutonium mine on Luing is there? Battery megafactory?
Maybe the government are going to give some bloke with a shed a massive ferry contract?
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Argyll and Bute Council has decided against shutting the only primary school on the island of Luing for good, giving islanders a year to prove its sustainability as part of a battle against depopulation.
It will likely become holiday cottages. Sadly, this is what happens. The Primary School my SO went to is now a fancy Air BnB development and others on the island are too. Completely empty during winter too.
Sounds like a stay of execution so they can shut it next year- how can an islands population possibly go from unsustainable to sustainable in a year without some kind of massive external investment?
New plutonium mine on Luing is there? Battery megafactory?
Maybe the government are going to give some bloke with a shed a massive ferry contract?