Helensburghs people & visitors need clean safe beaches & bathing water

According to Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) criteria, Helensburgh’s coastline falls below acceptable standards of cleanliness. Our beaches / bathing waters need to achieve Designated Bathing Water Status.

INITIATIVES

• Scottish Water to take up and maintain appropriate policies so that our bathing water is cleaned and remain so. Nothing less than achieving and maintaining a Designated Bathing Water Status will do.
• Persuade Argyll and Bute Council to adopt the foreshores between Henry Bell Lane to Lomond St and Colquhoun St to William St and designate them as Amenity Beaches. The Environment Protection Act would then cover them and which calls for strict levels of maintenance and cleanliness. qw
• Stop the collection of shellfish from the foreshore on environmental and health grounds.

N.B. In the document, Initiatives that can be achieved fairly quickly are marked “-qw” (quickwin)

"To turn the vision into reality is a very big job, but it is well worth doing. We need to stop the neglect of Helensburgh, turn it around and put it on the road to excellence."

The Helensburgh Vision Steering Group