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Guide Price£90,000

House Site, Albert Road, Oban, PA34

Key Features

  • An Individual House Site Situated In The Town Centre
  • With Planning Permission For An Impressive And Unique Architect Designed Four Bedroomed Home Built Over Four Levels
  • Mains Connection Close By For Water, Electricity & Drainage
  • A Private Foul Water Pump Will Require to Be Installed

Description

Oban, the principal tourist town of Argyll, supports a wide range of shops, restaurants, leisure and recreational facilities and professional services. There are primary schools, a high school, a leisure/sports centre and a general hospital as well as churches of various denominations. The thriving town has an attractive sea front and bustling harbour from which Caledonian MacBrayne ferries serve many of the Hebridean Islands. The town also enjoys good transport links to the central belt of Scotland by road and rail.

This individual house site is situated on a one-way road, in the centre of the town. Planning permission has been granted by Argyll & Bute Council under reference 24/01434/PP for the erection of a detached house, of four storey scale, which by virtue of its elevated position will enjoy views toward the seascape and the Island of Kerrera beyond and offers an excellent opportunity to develop a property in a rarely available town centre location.

Services: Electricity, water and drainage connections close by. A private foul water pump will require to be installed.

Inspection: Strictly by prior arrangement with the Selling Agents.

Guide Price: Ninety Thousand Pounds (£90,000). Offers are invited and should be submitted to the Selling Agents.

Under Money Laundering Regulations we are required to carry out due diligence on purchasers.

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Property details

Tenure
Freehold
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Date Posted
2026-05-11

Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

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Broadband
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Rights & Restrictions

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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

80 Mbps

Superfast · available to 88% of premises

Suitable for

  • HD streaming
  • Video calls
  • Web & social

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Park Primary School922 metres
    Pupils
    216
    Type
    Non-denominational
  • Rockfield Gaelic Unit1.1 miles
    Pupils
    50
    Type
    Non-denominational
  • St Columba's Primary School1.1 miles
    Pupils
    172
    Type
    Roman Catholic
  • Rockfield Primary School1.1 miles
    Pupils
    236
    Type
    Non-denominational
  • Dunbeg Primary School2.2 miles
    Pupils
    94
    Type
    Non-denominational

Secondary

  • Oban High School0.8 miles
    Pupils
    1,009
    Type
    Non-denominational
  • Ardnamurchan High School20 miles
    Pupils
    126
    Type
    Non-denominational
  • Lochgilphead High School27 miles
    Pupils
    408
    Type
    Non-denominational
  • Tobermory High School27 miles
    Pupils
    151
    Type
    Non-denominational
  • Kinlochleven High School28 miles
    Pupils
    135
    Type
    Non-denominational

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: planning activity, heritage and any flood history here are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Morrisons Daily Oban George Street, Oban71 metres
Farmfoods Oban, Oban143 metres
Lidl Soroba Road Oban, Oban819 metres

GP surgery

Lorn Medical Centre843 metres

Pharmacy

Boots The Chemists Ltd314 metres

Green space

Play Space299 metres

Walking trail

C160(a) - Taynuilt to Oban133 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

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Getting Around

Nearest station

Oban Rail Station483 metres

Nearest bus stop

Highland Theatre78 metres

Typical drive times

Oban3 min · 0.9 miles
Inbhir Aora54 min · 37 miles
An Gearasdan1 hr 7 min · 44 miles
Ceann Loch Gilb54 min · 38 miles
Stirling (city)2 hr 7 min · 87 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From SEPA flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Not shown on SEPA's flood mapsLower risk

Surface water

No mapped surface water riskLower risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)

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