Sir,
In the next month or so the Lochboisdale Regeneration Scheme started by Storas Uibhist more than a year back will come to its conclusion.
In the same time period Lochboisdale will be lucky if three of its existing retail businesses are still around.
The amount of money ploughed into the regeneration scheme has to be admired but its results have to call in to question the appropriate response to need and public funding.
Letter: What regeneration?
23 January 2015
The village of Lochboisdale has three retail businesses struggling to survive, a bank that has reduced its opening hours and a filling station that has been unable to sell fuel for several weeks so where exactly is the regeneration?
The more important question is, after squandering millions of pounds on a vanity project, what do the public authorities plan to do to actually invest in the economy, not just of Lochboisdale, but the whole of Uist and Barra that will provide useful jobs and keep people on the islands?
Gerry MacLeod
17 Kenneth Drive
Lochboisdale
South Uist