Highland Council

Members of the Highland Council's Housing and Property Committee met last week to discuss the impact that the cost of living crisis has had on tenants experiencing rent arrears.

The Highland Council’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme 2022/23 has delivered over 500 affordable homes across Highland.

The Highland Council has appointed urban regeneration specialist Threesixty Architecture to assist in the preparation of the town centre masterplan for Fort William.

Councillors at yesterday's meeting of Highland Council approved the local authority's Net Zero Strategy which was recommended by members at May's Climate Change Committee. Climate Change Committee Members had reinforced the importance of making progress and agreed several recommendations (contained

With work on the Caol and Lochyside Flood Protection Scheme in Lochaber near completion, the chair of the Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee has praised the work of staff leading on the major project. The work will provide protection to around 300 homes in a coastal commun

Local councillors stopped by to see how residents at new council homes in Dingwall are settling in and enjoying their new homes. The residents at Meiklefield Road have been enjoying their new homes for around six months now.

Highland communities have been formally invited to take the opportunity to prepare a new style Local Place Plan following new powers from Scottish Government that recently came into force. These plans are intended to empower communities to take a direct role in shaping the future of their respective

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 has appointed current North Lanarkshire Council deputy chief executive Derek Brown as its new chief executive. Derek started his career in teaching. His first job was in an international school in Madrid. Later, he worked as an English teacher in North Lanarkshire and Fife befor

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.

Scourie Community Development Company (SCDC) has received £20,000 from The Highland Council to take forward plans to build eight affordable homes on community-owned land. The project, led by SCDC with support from the Communities Housing Trust, also received £15,000 in feasibility fundin

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

A Badenoch and Strathspey Short-Term Let Control Area (STLCA) will be formally established on 18 June 2023 following an agreement by members of the Highland Council's Economy and Infrastructure Committee yesterday.