Fireplace has gutted the previous boat home on a Loch Lomond island owned by radio presenter Kirsty Younger and her husband.
A blaze broke out at Inchconnachan Island on Saturday (Might 28) night, with fireplace crews and the Loch Lomond Rescue Boat scrambling to the scene to convey the inferno below management.
Dramatic footage from the scene reveals flames tearing by means of the colonial-style timber bungalow, which was constructed within the Nineteen Twenties and on account of be demolished as a part of plans to rework the island into an eco retreat.
A Scottish Fireplace and Rescue Service spokesman mentioned: “We have been alerted at 8.10pm on Saturday, Might 28 to studies of a derelict constructing on fireplace.
“Operations management mobilised three home equipment to Inchconnachan Island, the place crews extinguished the hearth and made the realm secure earlier than leaving the scene."
Final yr we advised how former Desert Island Discs presenter Younger and her husband Nick Jones, who runs the £1.4bn Soho Home empire, purchased Inchconnachan Island, which is also referred to as Wallaby Island for a charge reported to be round £1.5m.
They pledged to rework it into “a ravishing place for everybody to take pleasure in” and lodged plans with Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Nationwide Park for a three-bedroom lodge and new boathouse.
Nevertheless, the couple confronted fierce opposition amid fears wallabies, which have known as Inchconnachan residence since being launched, can be faraway from the island.
A web-based petition began by marine science pupil Craig Morrison has obtained virtually 100,000 signatures, nonetheless the couple denied plans to take away them from the Loch Lomond island.
He mentioned: “The wallabies have nice historic, social and cultural significance, they're adored by locals and vacationers alike, with many boat journeys within the space having the prospect of seeing the wallabies as their star attraction.”
The island had been owned by the Colquhoun household for the reason that 14th century however nobody has lived there since daredevil aristocrat Fiona Gore, Countess of Arran and champion powerboat racer, left twenty years in the past.
Girl Arran of Colquhoun launched red-neck wallabies to the realm within the Nineteen Forties.
The island’s habitat is similar to their native Tasmania and, by 1993, there have been an estimated 125 dwelling on Inchconnachan.
Younger and Jones initially mentioned they deliberate to construct lodging for a warden to dwell on the island to protect towards anti-social behaviour, nonetheless the proposal was deserted after criticism from the Scottish Surroundings Safety Company, which objected over flood dangers.
The couple mentioned that the full-time worker would as an alternative journey every day to the island, with the boathouse plans being amended to accommodate guests and an workplace.