Highlands

Councillors have agreed the distribution of £7.4 million allocation of the Highland Council's capital budget for strategic road schemes during years 2021/22 and 2022/23.

A developer has unveiled plans to deliver 16 family-sized homes in Portree on the Isle of Skye. London-based Charles Garton Jones is aiming to build the detached houses next to his Bracken Hide Hotel, off Struan Road.

The Highland Council has today granted approval for a planning application that will see the transformation of Inverness Castle to become a tourism gateway for the region. The application covered the works necessary to restore the Category A Listed building and convert it for use as a new visit

A final design for an Archimedes Screw hydro electric scheme in Inverness has been submitted for approval.

Kishorn Port has today received approval from The Highland Council for its proposal to extend the port’s dry dock.

A bid to fund the design and delivery of more than £55 million of transport infrastructure in the Highland region was submitted to Transport Scotland today.

The reconstruction of a 17th-century creel house using traditional methods is now underway at Glencoe. Led by the National Trust for Scotland, a team of heritage building craftspeople has broken ground and raised the house’s 6m-high timber cruck frame.

Seventeen Sutherland regeneration projects have been awarded funding from the Highland Coastal Communities Fund (HCCF). A total of £3,034,703 was awarded to the Highland Council by the Scottish Government, £700,407 of which was earmarked for the council’s Suther

Aberdeen-based Kirkwood Homes has pushed ahead with a £200 million plan to build up to 800 new homes at the former Fairways golf course in Inverness. A Proposal of Application Notice was submitted to Highland Council, with the developers claiming the development will create about 150 construct

Renovation and construction work on the landmark retail and housing development at the former Arnotts store in Inverness city centre has kicked off, with a planned completion date of the third quarter of 2022.

The latest outlook for future development and housing delivery across the Highlands has been unveiled by the Highland Council with the publication of the Housing Land Audit for 2020. The publication aims to provide updated forecasts for housing delivery and clearer information on the requirements fo

Savills' planning team in Scotland has obtained planning permission in principle from Highland councillors for Gloag Investments' high-quality woodland holiday accommodation at Beaufort Castle Estate near Kiltarlity near Oban.

The transformation of Inverness Castle will see the historic ‘rose window’, saved from a former Methodist church in the city, being incorporated into interior design for the building. The ‘rose window’ in its home in the now-demolished former church on Inglis Street (Image cr

Transport Scotland is seeking potential bidders for the most northerly section of the Scottish Government’s £3 billion programme to dual the A9 between Perth and Inverness.

The Highland Council has released progress images of the Inverness West Link project as it announced Stage 2 of the project remains on track for completion in early April 2021. A number of core elements making-up this phase of the project have now successfully been completed, including the