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(from left) Gail Matheson, chief executive of Highland Housing Alliance, Steven Paterson, More Homes Division co-ordinator, John McHardy from Highland Council and Willie Gray, managing director of William Gray Construction at the Raining’s Stairs site, Inverness The Highland Housing Alliance (HHA)

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Plans to build 10 new affordable homes in the Black Isle have been given the go-ahead by the Highland Council. Area planning committee members meeting in Inverness this week approved the Cameron Crescent development in Munlochy, the Press & Journal has reported.

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The demolition of all non-listed buildings at the Inverness College site at Midmills in the city centre is to begin next month to make way for more than 80 retirement homes. Retirement home provider McCarthy & Stone, which acquired the site from Highland Council, will build 45 homes on the vacan

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A former schoolhouse in the Highlands that has lain empty for over five years has been transformed into two affordable dwellings thanks to an innovative funding package secured by the Coigach Community Development Company and The Highlands Small Communities Housing Trust (HSCHT). Set in the remote c

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Receiving their award from sponsors Northern gas heating are (2nd left) Steve Laurie, E.ON; Karen MacLean, the council’s energy advice officer & Omar Rickets, E.ON The Highland Council has won a national award for a project aimed at cutting the cost of heating Highland homes.

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South Lanarkshire Council has unveiled plans to double its house building programme to 1,000 new homes as it joined two other local authorities in Scotland to yesterday announce a voluntarily freeze of the basic rate of Council Tax. Inverclyde and Renfrewshire councils also confirmed that they would

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Highland Council Employee of the Year Gail Ward (centre) with council leader Margaret Davidson and awards host Norman MacLeod Housing policy officer Gail Ward has been named Employee of the Year by Highland Council for the care and compassion she has shown in welcoming Syrian refugees to the region

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Sixty new homes are set to be built in the Cairngorms National Park after three separate planning applications were given the go ahead for Grantown-on-Spey. The Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) approved an application from Seafield & Strathspey Estates for a development of 43 plots and

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An increase of housing and specialist support provision have been named by members of Highland Council’s Lochaber Committee among a set of strategic priorities to improve the health and wellbeing of local people. The Committee confirmed its commitment to working with partners to provide the mechan

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At the turf cutting ceremony on the new Kilbeg housing sites are (from left) Steven Gregg, Highland Small Communities Housing Trust; Cllr Audrey Sinclair, The Highland Council; Prof Boyd Robertson, principal, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig; John Swinney, deputy first minister; Angus MacDonald, James MacQueen Bu

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A Highland community has indentified affordable housing among a number of local strategic priorities for the area. Members of Highland Council’s Badenoch and Strathspey area committee have drawn up a list of priorities in order to ensure that local needs and issues are taken into account by the co

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Work has begun on a project to turn a former medical centre in Fort William into accommodation for rent. Highland Council is working with Lochaber Housing Association on the £1.6 million project involving the Belhaven Ward, which closed in 2013.

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