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The Sannox Update
In spite of a continuing pile of excrement, the latest being the Horizon-IT nascent chaos currently paralysing the senior management at Companies House (summary below), we are inexorably managing to…
Progress Each Syndicate Towards The Exit Route Phase
The Sannox Hotel + Newbuild Planning Consent + New Village Shop Planning Permission are progressing forward.
Especially no that one of our most experienced project managers is remaining onsite at Sannox until it is re-opened.
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This Was Supposed To Be
”Good News At Abbey Studios Business Centre & The Lighthouses”
Update deferred until September/October 2026 UPS News edition
But the progress carries on, inexorably here at Sannox
When you hear on the national news that the government have made another mess, it does actually have real life effects on the likes on what have been doing here since 1986. That alsommeans having an adverse effectbon our readers,ll
Indeed, our book-keeper was curious about the numbers and she actually spent what she described as a fascinating day rummaging and effectively auditing a very large pile of HM Land Registry and RoS title-deeds…
^^ HM Land Registry Title-Deeds ^^
^^An Impeccable Source of Information ^^
After a lot of dust and much tapping away at the office calculator, our book-keeper came out with the following facts…
^^ Originally We Had Intended To Prove Whether The Words We Wrote ^^
^^ In Unique Property Bulletin Held Any Useful Information? ^^
^^ 40 Years Later The Results Are None Too Shabby. ^^
Sadly…
(i). The governments, of all political colours, seem to dislike it when jobs are created at no cost to the taxpayer.
(ii). People with disabilities who chose not to claim State benefits, saving the taxpayer £282,000 so far… and those same people with disabilities create hundreds of jobs, are treated with contempt.
Literally. Contempt. As in Contempt of Court when the disabled director has an Order from HM Court against the Registrar of Companies House, and which the Registrar, Andrew King, feels is within his gift to ignore.
Given that it is not so much the contempt being shown by the new Registrar to disabled-director Russell McLean, but the inconvenient truth that the current new Registrar Andy King has a problem with the “contempt” also registers against HM Court Forfar and the judiciary.
We cannot discuss this matter on a publicly accessible site beyond what was in the public domain before RECALL and likely until the legal process has concluded at HM Court.
The bitter irony is that disabled-director Russell McLean has been forced to resign his directorships because he is disabled.
The current Registrar (Mr King) has failed to comply with the undertaking his office gave to the Sheriff (term for a Scottish judge).
HM Court Forfar ~ Recall Papers: McLean -v- Registrar of Companies House
As a direct result, Mr King’s dysfunctional IT system will NOT allow director McLean to file any of the statutory documents such as the CS01 Annual Return.
The “workaround” suggested by staff is that director McLean “temporarily resign” and that will allow the computer sustem to let the “stuck” electronically filed CS01 to pass through and ensure the companies within the Unique Property group, remain legally compliant.
The fact the advice in the previous two paragraphs is ultra vires and Companies House creates an unlawful “shadow director” is something best dealt with by the Duty Sheriff in chambers.
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After A Great Deal of Hard Work By A Lot of People
The problem of an adequate number of ferries to the island seems, at the moment, to have been remedied…
^^ MV Alfred ~ Car Ferry Kindly On Loan From Pentland Ferries ^^
^^ Arriving At Brodick Ferry Terminal ^^
Plus the ferry MV Glen Sannox was supposed to be on the main Arran route 6 years earlier, but took a horrendous 7 years and 11 months to build, our project at Sannox was similarly delayed…
^^ MV Glen Sannox ~ Arriving At Brodick Ferry Terminal ^^
The cost over runs for MV Glen Sannox were and are almost as bad as the costs to the island economy, even projects such as the Sannox Hotel renovation + additional ensuite bedrooms + new village shop have been held up badly.
We are very fortunate in that there are no mortgages on any of our buildings, but the delays, stresses and financial discomfort have been painful.
Incredibly lucky has been the continuation of Arran’s small, “back-door ferry between the north end village of Lochranza, and the Argyll mainland ferry-landing slipway at Claonaig…
Car Ferry MV Loch Tarbert Departing Lochranza (on Arran) ^^
^^ Returning to Claonaig on the Mainland ^^
^^ Paul Rutherford is one of the UPS crew walking, second-last ^^
^^ to board the MV Loch Tarbert ferry back to the mainland ^^
The regular crossing to and from the Island of Arran and our Sannox Hotel restoration project can be very therapeutic at times…
Here is our favourite ferry and service, the MV Loch Tarbert sailing in to berth at Lochranza on the island of Arran.
If you look closely, you may see one of the UPS volunteers Paul Rutherford bringing much needed blood-thinning medication for director Russ McLean as he (McLean) had been on the island several weeks too long in order to get the updated Schedule-of-Works for the Sannox project completed…
Paul had driven from the East coast of the country where his home overlooks the north sea, all the way to the far west coast, just to ensure the stroke-prevention medication arrived in time. It was just a 10 minute chat as Paul had nipped across as a foot passenger and needed to drive all the way back from the west coast to the east coast…
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Sannox Renovation Projects
A few photos showing the beauty of the location…
^^ From Sannox Hotel Driveway At Sunrise ^^
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Our wonderful next-door neighbour at Sannox Hotel, the late Joe Perkins was a Chief Engineer in the Merchant Navy.
Unique Property Group managing director, and former officer, Russ McLean came back to Sannox after a week at the mainland High Street Rescue Initiative Ltd., Abbey Studios Business Centre project to this old “red duster” Merchant Navy flag billowing in the wind from one of Sannox Hotel’s flagpoles.
Joe had gifted one of his old Red Ensign flags to Russ.
This flag was discovered ~ a little dusty ~ in the back store room. So it was run up the flagpole to be dry-cleaned in a natural way…
Though with terrible sadness, one of the patrons of the Friends of TS Queen Mary charity passed away two days later.
^^ Sir Sam Neill ~ A Patron of The TS Queen Mary Charity ^^
Given the history of the TS Queen Mary and fact that part of the ship is stored at `Sannox until the restored vessel is ready to sail again, it seemed the right thing to do, to lower this Red Ensign to half mast for a gentleman who was incredibly kind to a charity which is with the DNA of what we do here.
Merchant Navy Red Ensign At Half Mast
One of our founders of the charity that Sam supported here, is Iain Sim. Ian’s word sum up the heartfelt appreciation for what Sam did for us…
Lest there be any doubt what the kindness and support of wonderful souls, such as Sam Neill mean, here is the physical incarnation of what we managed to have towed up from port of Tilbury and with some irony, past the front windows of our Sannox restoration projects, way back in 2016…
After a decade of fundraising and huge amounts of work, plus volunteers’ time, here is evidence of progress in restoring the TS Queen Mary…
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Returning to the land-based projects and one of our nine current Unique Property Syndicate endeavours with 24 of our Unique Property shareholders supporting this renovation of the closed-down hotel.
Along with the newbuild village shop, plus and additional FOUR extra ensuite guest 0bedrooms, including one specifically designed to accommodate a guest with disabilities in the new ground-floor facility…
^^ Sannox Hotel + New Village Shop ^^
^^ & New Disability Ensuite Bedroom Segment ^^
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