INVERARAY residents have been left reeling this week after it was revealed there will be no new £1.2 million state-of-the-art medical centre for the town for at least five years.
Garret Corner, chairman of Inveraray Community Council, spoke of his disappointment that the Royal burgh is ‘bottom of a long list’ of priorities for Argyll and Bute Community Health Partnership (CHP).
‘Don’t get ill in Inveraray,’ he said. ‘We will have to put up with what we’ve got even though the current surgery is not fit for purpose.
‘We knew in July that plans had been postponed, but we still assumed it would happen sooner rather than later.’
A report by Stephen Whiston, Argyll and Bute’s head of Planning, Performance and Contracting, placed Inveraray last on a list of priorities behind proposed projects including Oban, Mull, Campbeltown, Dunoon and Bute.
Councillor Alison Hay said: ‘Inveraray is still a priority but we will have to wait for a few more years, but if there is a ‘slippage’ it can be moved up the list. I fear there is little more we can do at the moment.’
