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If you have any queries about housing, you can write or phone:
Housing and Property Services, Ross House, High Street, Dingwall, IV15 9RY, telephone 01349 868463, fax 01349 863510
The Area Housing and Property Manager for Ross, Skye and Lochaber is Tracey Urry. She is based at the Housing and Property offices in Dingwall.
Service Points in the Black Isle ward are:
At all Highland Council Service Points, you can:
At Fortrose Service Point, you can also contact a Housing Officer on Wednesday mornings, Thursdays and Fridays.
If you are a council tenant and have an emergency repair to report outside office hours, which are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, you can phone the emergency housing number - 08457 002005.
Finding Housing: because we have many more households on the waiting lists than we are able to accommodate in council housing, we have developed A Guide to Housing Options, which gives information on the various ways of finding housing in Highland.
Homelessness: If you become homeless, please contact a housing officer to obtain advice and information. You can write or phone the Dingwall Housing and Property Office direct or you can ask at the Service Point above to be put in contact with a housing officer. If you become homeless outside office hours, please phone the emergency housing number - 08457 002005, so that the standby officer can help you access emergency accommodation
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The Care and Repair scheme offers free and confidential information and advice to older people and people with a disability who are homeowners or private tenants, to enable them to improve, repair or adapt their homes.
The Care and Repair agents for the Black Isle ward are:
ILM Highland
Unit 1G
Teannich Industrial Estate
Alness
Ross-shire
IV17 0XS
Tel: 01349 884774;
e-mail: rosscare@ilmhighland.co.uk
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This ward is designated as a low priority area for crofting.
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The Handy Person Scheme has been established to assist elderly people and people with disabilities retain their independence by providing people to carry out a wide range of minor household repairs which are too small for a tradesperson and which are of a one-off kind.
It is mainly aimed at owner occupiers, although with the landlord’s permission repairs can be carried out on rented properties.
In the Black Isle Ward, you can contact:
ILM Highland
Unit 1G
Teannich Industrial Estate
Alness
Ross-shire
IV17 0XS
Tel: 01349 884774;
e-mail: rosscare@ilmhighland.co.uk
More information on the Handy Person Scheme
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Look at the Ward Statistics page to obtain information on the total number of households and the number of council houses in the ward.
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The lettings areas in the Black Isle Ward are:
- Black Isle North
- Balblair
- Jemimaville
- Killen
- Rosemarkie
- Avoch
- Alcaig
- Black Isle South
- Culbokie
- Tore
- Munlochy
- North Kessock
- Cromarty
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There is one registered tenant group in the Black Isle Ward:
Townlands Together Residents Group - contact: Mrs Nora Watson, 77 Townsland Park, Cromarty.
If you live elsewhere in the Black Isle Ward and would like to form a tenant's group, please contact your local housing office for advice on how to do so.
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The Black Isle Ward is designated as “pressured”, so this means that for tenants who started a new tenancy on or after 30 September 2002, the right to buy is suspended until November 2010.
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In the Black Isle Ward, the Council has sheltered housing schemes in Alexander Court, Rodger Close and Rodger Court, Fortrose, in Gowans Place and Rose Place, Avoch, and in Townlands Park, Cromarty.
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The Council respects the rights of Gypsy/Travellers to maintain their travelling way of life. Many Gypsy/Travellers in Highland prefer not to use the Council's camps, but set up camps on other pieces of land. We have developed a protocol in line with Scottish Executive guidelines that we will follow when responding to unauthorised camping by Gypsy/Travellers.
Housing and Property staff will respond to unauthorised camping on council land in the Black Isle Ward..