Website Rebuild
Mini update, 5th October 2026 whilst this Unique Property Syndicate website is being rebuilt.
Apologies for any interruptions. Next update: 31st October 2026 ~ late in the month due to the majority of volunteer resources being focussed on completing all UPS buildings… and readying each for resale and conclusion of the current total of £2,053,838 buildings owned by the 11 unique property syndicates at this time.
For example, our full planning permission at the Sannox syndicates..
^^ Sannox Hotel Syndicate on The Island of Arran ^^
The planning permission was prepared by the best architect in this part of the country and, remarkably, granted fully, by what has turned out to be one of the finest local authorities with whom we have liaised with in the entire UK… North Ayrshire Council.
Why?
Because all the permissions for which we asked were granted.
This was also helped, due to an unusual matter in that the “delegated powers” planning permission officer drew significant comfort in the 101 local folk who supported the renovation and re-opening proposal of Sannox Hotel plus newbuild Village Shop via audited (real) comments on our social media account (click here).
We had never heard of a planning officer taking comfort and giving gravitas to (audited and legitimate) comments that were delivered electronically via a planning permission applicants website (here).
But here is the proof, and an excellent permission it is…
^^ Planning Permission Approval ^^
^^ Sannox Hotel Syndicate on The Island of Arran ^^
For our valiant and incredibly patient shareholders in the Sannox syndicates, it may be of some comfort to actually see what the chaos caused at the main Isle of Arran ferry route being plagued by the newbuild MV Glen Sannox scandal (click here) looks like… as the folk who cannot get booked on the MAIN ferry between the island’s Bridick ferry terminal to/from the mainland, all head up to the much smaller “back door ferry” just past the Sannox Hotel at Lochranza (both on the island of Arran).
In all my life, and I come from Arran, I have never seen queues like this for the north-end Lochranza ~to~ Claonaig ferry service.
The crew are doing their very best… and in conditions that are more difficult than many folk realise. One example in recent memory is when the crew for each CalMac ferry route turned up to their post on each ferry when Covid was at its most lethal.
It is sometimes forgotten, that the officers and crew of each CalMac ferry, on each route that the ferry company operates, risked their own lives to make sure ill and/or disabled islanders managed to get to hospital appointments. Whilst all other islanders in “lockdown” managed to get food and essentials brought from the mainland to the islands ~ thanks to the unsung heroic efforts of CalMac Crew.
I know that many islanders, myself included, will NEVER forget the risks CalMac crew took in keeping us fed and making sure those islanders that needed to attend hospital appointments on the mainland were helped to do just that. Thank you CalMac Crew.
Current Autumn 2026 Crew Manage To Keep,The Service Going
Fortunately, there is a solution…
Commence a third ferry route from and to the island and mainland between Campbeltown (mainland Argyll) and Blackwaterfoot (on the island if Arran)
The ships are available and there is a £3,000,000 ferry terminal laying unused at Campbeltown Harbour.
^^ Proposed New Ferry Route ^^
In fact NOT new, but ostensibly REPLACES the notoriously challenged
Campbeltown (Argyll) ~to~ Ardrossan Route: Click Here
All that is needed is a vote or more likely a petition on the island of Arran and Argyll to support the newbuild of a ferry slipway just south of Blackwaterfoot village (on Arran) in a way that does not overly disturb or disrupt the village of Blackwaterfoot.
For sure, the local residents and definitely the islanders, depend on the Lochranza ferry route as can be seen in the video.
So a tertiary safety backup that simply uses assets that already exist and unused seems like a very good way to lessen the financial harm being sustained at Arran, Ardrossan and Argyll.
A win~win~win.
We are BUILDING a website to LAUNCH this tertiary ferry route. Ig is NOT yet ready, but will be soon, along with a way to electronically sign a government hosted petition.
Just Google two words..
CalMac Enigma
or for speed…
Click Here.
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Abbreviated UPS News Update: 25 September 2025
Hi, it’s Russ… still here. Though after too many days overdoing it and getting severely told off by the doctor, I need to reduce the hours at UPS a wee bit (from 14 a day to 7 a day).
For today. Here is the bulk of our UPS News Update scheduled for 30th September 2026. It still needs to be fully checked and edited to remedy my word mangling.
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We Are Considering Full FCA Application & Regulation
This Will Give Another Exit Route Option
Today, 25th September 2026 and I am still off for a few more days getting over a difficult medical event. But had one of our wonderful shareholders on the phone this morning. So need to clarify some important things for the benefit of our incredibly patient UPS members. All of whom have kept the faith through the pandemic and ferry crisis. With a side order of HM Land Registry’s 100,000 backlog and Companies House IT implosion.
Sannox Hotel A Couple of Weeks Ago Progress Is Still Slow,
But Inexorably Headed To Completion of Planning Permission Works
1]. I am still here. Not croaked it yet. Though the hours have been medically curtailed. In fairness, the doc., was right to have a canaptic fit when she saw the post-stroke and blood-pressure diary. At 67 years old in less than Olympic health, it is not sensible to keep pushing the 14 hour days… The added effort of our social media now hitting 3,600,000 a month is great, but good grief it is a full time job for 3 people, not an old geezer with an ipad!
2]. All of our buildings are fully insured and secure. All are maintained. Large amounts of funds are being drawn down from the directors reserves so that we do NOT need to issue a cash-call to finish the projects that are still at the 80% to 90% completion of planning permission mark.
3]. The retirement I have been told to take, by the magnificent consultant neurosurgeon, is partial (and medically managed). That retirement will only happen in full, when we have ALL the current spectrum of UPS buildings sold. Fortunately, we have had three senior UPS volunteers (very kindly) double their hours, due to the vast increase in readership over at Unique Property Bulletin.
4]. If/when I croak it, our other main company director David Rutherford has been volunteering at UPS for 23 years and with the experience he has gained. he knows what to do to complete the current property purchase/renovation/resale journey. Especially so all shareholders/members have the much desired exit-routes.
5]. The passwords on many pages here have been changed to unobtainable until we get each page checked (there are some very tight rules surrounding FCA and plc conversion).
6]. Each page requires to be made compliant with FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) regulations.
7]. The reason is our significant growth in readership, to over one million has many new folk wanting to join Unique Property Syndicates.
8]. We cannot, or rather the directors here are not keen to do that without the full and proper FCA licensing protocol. Yes we can follow the “exemptions” route via HNW and Sophisticated Investor statutorily defined pro forma. But that isn’t the proper front-door way of doing this.
So we are rebuilding this website in order that it will pass all of the FCA compliance regs., in a proper and fully legal way that is morally correct as well as being on the right side of the law with the financial regs too.
Why Rebuild The Website?
9]. If and/or when we go public (plc) on share issue (via FCA compliance)… at that point an ancillary benefit is that our existing 107 x UPS shareholders (you) will be legally enabled to sell your UPS shares on the public market. Or buy more shares in whichever project has your liking.
Any questions, please feel free to text, WhatsApp or phone Davis, Russ or and of the UPS-HQ crew…
1,145 pages of updates and syndicate news + buildings from the past 32 years (14 online) are a lot to process…
But this effort is well worth it… if we are able to legally and properly ensure new UPS members can join UPS.
Whilst those UPS shareholders looking to retire, have an option to publicly sell their shares for a mutually agreeable price between buyer and seller.
The difference now, as contrasted with our 1997 ~ 2007 plc (public limited company) phase is back then the internet was in its infancy and social medial was just finding its feet.
Launching a public share issue via press release and a fax machine in the 1990s was incredibly difficult.
Now, in 2026, especially with the vast increase in interest that our main website attracts, everything has changed.
Remarkably in our case, with some good news at last…
With genuine irony, had to stabilise the accelerated increase in the vastly increasing numbers by publishing a Unique Property Bulletin edition every alternate/second day instead of every-single-day because burn-out of our volunteers was a distinct possibility and…
3 million to 3.5 million views every 28 days is more than adequate as a sample size to test the new YouTube channel.
With these numbers, the YouTube experiment can go ahead with confidence.
Plus the consideration of a well presented public (plc) share issue is worth the regulatory cost and effort.
Especially as this gives those UPS shareholders who are ready to reture, and sell their share an opportunity to so do
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A plc share issue will also help in many of our core aims as itemised by our book-keeper in her latest audit….
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A Decent Measure of Good News
Crucially the social media regular update for the publicly accessible main site is sitting at a very healthy…
3,500,000 Views Per Month
We trust that the reasons these numbers are very helpful for shareholders is self evident. Full clarification will be included in our next UPS News update.
The actual social~media page that has brought a consequential change, can be seen at…
Unique Property Bulletin
Our Main Social Media Page
Click Here
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At around 7pm on 23rd September 2026, Russ McLean was taken unwell. We are unable to advise how serious this is at the moment.
He had managed to complete about 80% of the Unique Property Syndicate News scheduled for upload on 24th September 2026.
Due to doctors orders that will not now happen.
This is frustrating as it contains good news.
Fortunately, Russ has taught some of the 11 crew here how to work this page of the website for just such medical events.
Consequently, and depending on whether the apprentices here can work the business-end of this website, the next Unique Property Syndicate News is scheduled for…
9.00pm
Mini-Update: 5th October 2026
Main-Update: 31st October 2026
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