Inverness Strategy
City planning
The Inner Moray Firth Proposed Local Development Plan (IMF) sets the up to date spatial planning framework to support, safeguard and grow diverse uses in the city, setting broad place-making priorities:
- Support the regeneration of Inverness City Centre by directing footfall-generating uses there and by preventing an increase of town retail development;
- celebrate the City centre as a core of living, working and leisure destinations for the Highland region;
- deliver the City's housing needs in strategic expansion areas, shown on the Inverness Spatial Strategy Map, so that services and infrastructure can be effectively planned and delivered;
- bolster existing neighbourhood service centres and employment destinations by ensuring new development is conveniently located and well connected with them;
- prioritise transport improvements that get more people walking, cycling and using public transport; and
- safeguard and enhance the green networks, including the city's green edge, that run through the City and those that surround it.
The IMF Spatial Strategy identifies key actions that will deliver on the above priorities, allocates land for the range of uses required to meet the needs of our growing city and sets far-reaching policies to ensure all future development proposals deliver a fairer, healthier and low carbon city and region.