Duck Bay Parking Charges

We have been made aware by Argyll & Bute Council of their intention to introduce metered parking bays along the main road at Duck Bay Marina. This will be followed by metered parking bays in the Car Park across from Duck Bay Hotel & Restaurant.

For over 30 years parking in this area has always been free and we are absolutely outraged that the Council would try to extort money from both locals and tourists alike simply to park their cars. We would advise that the Council have no intention to provide any sort of facilities for people paying to park. There will be no toilets, no facilities for rubbish, no facilities to deal with sewage from the Motorhomes, etc.

The Car Park in question was formerly a bog that was, in 1987, turned into a Car Park that was paid for entirely by Duck Bay Hotel and Restaurant. This was done after an agreement was reached with the Local Council Authority at the time, West Dunbartonshire, that in return for building the Car Park the Council would always ensure that the Car Park would be free to use for the general public. Due to local boundary changes, this area now comes under Argyll & Bute Council who do not feel that this long standing agreement should be honoured.

Loch Lomond is an area of natural beauty that should be free for people to enjoy. It is an area that Scotland should rightly be proud of and something that we should look to promote and encourage with regard to tourism. It is not an area that should be open to extortion and exploitation by Local Councils who are motivated by greed and nothing else.