Highland Council

Over the past year, 105 community-based projects have secured grants of £5.7 million towards projects valued at a total of £15m, facilitated through the work of the Highland Council’s Community Regeneration Team. The most recent work of the team has been preparing for and promoting

The Highland Council is inviting organisations to apply for Community Regeneration Funding to finance revenue projects that will respond to the needs of local areas and deliver positive impacts. Projects should be able to be delivered before Friday 1 March 2024. The deadline to submit an expression

A total of £0.2m Inverness Common Good Funding will be used to help people most at need to heat their homes this winter in the Inverness area. Members of the Highland Council’s City of Inverness Area Committee have agreed to provide a Winter Discretionary Payments Scheme for eligible peo

The Highland Council is now accepting expressions of interest for the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund for 2024-2025. The Regeneration Capital Grant Fund is delivered in partnership with the Scottish Government and COSLA.

Members of the Highland Council's Economy and Infrastructure Committee have agreed to continue to build on the success of the 2022/23 Community Regeneration Programme for 2023/24. Economy and Infrastructure Committee chair, Councillor Ken Gowans, said: “Following a successful first year the ne

Members of the Economy and Infrastructure Committee at the Highland Council will today be asked to approve the establishment of a Short Term Let Control Area for Badenoch and Strathspey (Ward 20).

Members of the Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee will consider updated developer contribution rates for education and community facilities when they meet today. Approval of the report will allow the council to apply revised developer contribution rates for schools and com

Members of the Highland Council's Housing & Property Committee have approved the new Local Housing Strategy 2023-2028 (LHS). 

Members of the Highland Council's Housing and Property Committee have approved plans which aim to build 3,300 affordable homes over the next five years.

The Communities Housing Trust has been awarded £94,490 from the Highland Council’s Community Regeneration Fund to take forward a project to provide new affordable homes and woodland crofts in Glengarry, to help repopulate the glen. The Inverness-based charity and Glengarry Community Wood

The Highland Council has published its March 2023 Development Plans Newsletter, which outlines how and when people can get involved in shaping future development plans across Highland. Chair of the council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee, Councillor Ken Gowans, said: “Our latest D

Construction has begun on 12 homes in the village of Broadford, Isle of Skye to help address affordable housing challenges.

The Assynt Development Trust (ADT) has been awarded £114,000 to take forward the community-led development of affordable homes and community facilities on former glebe land between Lochinver and Glencanisp. ADT has received £44,000 from the Highland Council’s Community Regeneration

Residents of Tongue, Melness and Skerray area are invited to attend a Community Drop-in Session at Kyle Centre, Tongue on Thursday, 9 March 2023 from 11:30am – 1:30pm. The aim of the engagement session is to allow residents the opportunity to meet with the Repopulation Coordinator for North-We

A meeting of Highland Council on 2 March will consider a budget strategy to address a £49.2 million budget gap for 2023-24. The development of the budget for the coming financial year needs to be seen in the context of a highly challenging financial environment with public sector pay claims an