- Project title
- Town Centre Masterplan
- Theme
- A Great Place To Live
- Status
- Requires feasibility, business case or funding
- Last updated
- June 2026
- Progress
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The production of a Fort William Town Centre Masterplan and associated community engagement were completed over a period of several months in 2023/24. A Design Team Response to Community Feedback received on the Masterplan was published in January 2025.
Building on this work the following Masterplan elements are currently being progressed as FW2040 priorities:
- appraisal of culture and leisure facilities and proposed improvements (see the separate Indoor Multi-purpose Facility project)
- re-imagining of Fort William Bus Station (see the seperate Active Travel Masterplan project)
In addition, the following elements of the Masterplan are reviewed regularly, and should it be possible to progress this will be undertaken:
- Rail Station development co-ordinated with the Bus Station to provide a new travel interchange for the town
- Strategic development of the current Belford and former St Marys school sites for residential/mixed use (see the seperate Belford Hospital Site re-development project)
- Leasing of the former Council service point for community, art, youth or co-working space
- Public realm improvements
- Manager
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FW2040 Project Manager
- Further information
