Link Housing Group - Dunbeg housing development: • The site is the largest in the area and has successfully provided significant numbers of additional homes for Oban. • Phase 3 was completed in 2023, funded by the Link Group with the Scottish Government and Argyll & Bute Council, consisting of 260 homes for affordable rent and 40 for New Supply Shared Equity (NSSE) and mid-market rent. 5 • Phase 4 is due to begin in 2025, with planning for private housing and apartments, social rent, mid-market rent and NSSE housing and apartment blocks, an elderly-living apartment block, a student housing block, and a commercial area – key to place making. • There have proved to be many challenges to development of the site, which have required strategic leadership, collaboration, and investment in infrastructure (which is common to sites across Argyll & Bute). • The National Planning Framework has presented challenges, with the presence of peat on the site, and an identified flooding risk.