Plans submitted for Campbeltown distillery

Bowman Stewart Architects has put forward plans for a new Dal Riata Distillery in Campbeltown.

Located overlooking Campeltown Loch, the distillery will revive the area’s once thriving industry and will work within the Cambeltown Conservation Area scheme.

The main distillery building will feature curtain wall glazing with balcony views across the Loch. Adjacent to the distillery, the project also includes a retail zone and visitor’s centre.

If the scheme gets approval, Dal Riata Distillery will produce up to 850,000 litres of spirit per annum, using locally grown barley.

Dal Riata Distillery Director Iain Croucher said: “Our distillery will be more than just a single malt whisky production facility, it will be friends and family, it will be business, it will be social and believe us, it will be fun.”

Once described as the capital of the whisky world, in the 1800s Campbeltown had over 25 distilleries, until a decline in the 1920s.