News archive
News published May 2025
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Environmental schemes on the agenda of Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee
Published 23 May 2025Members of Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee will have the opportunity to discuss compensatory planting schemes and biodiversity enhancement when they meet on Thursday 29 May.
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Final phase for Community Council Scheme Review public consultation
Published 23 May 2025The Highland Council has launched phase 2 of a public consultation on how Community Councils across the Highlands are created and governed.
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Former Market Trader commemorated at Inverness Victorian Market
Published 23 May 2025Nancy Rattray, former Market Trader has been posthumously commemorated at the Victorian Market in Inverness.
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Committee to agree delivery plan for 2025/26 UK Shared Prosperity Fund
Published 23 May 2025At the meeting Economy and Infrastructure Committee next week (Thursday 28 May) members will decide how over £3 million of funding from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)
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Funding for redevelopment of Borrodale School on Isle of Skye.
Published 22 May 2025The Scottish Government have awarded The Highland Council £450k from the Vacant & Derelict Land Investment Programme for a project to renovate Borrodale School and School House.
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Highland Council agrees outcomes for mainstreaming equality
Published 22 May 2025Members of Highland Council’s Communities and Place Committee have today welcomed progress against the Council’s Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes Report.
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Highland Council drives forward with fleet management action plan
Published 22 May 2025Highland Council has today updated members of the Communities and Place Committee on its Fleet Action Plan supplied to the Office of the Traffic Commissioner for Scotland.
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Council to consult on the disposal and change of use of Inverness Common Good land
Published 22 May 2025The Highland Council has launched a statutory Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 consultation giving the Inverness residents until 15 July 2025 to respond to a proposal to dispose, by lease, an
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Social Value Charter to Ensure Communities Get Fair Share
Published 22 May 2025The work underway to ensure that Highland communities can benefit from profits being generated by renewable developments will be under the spotlight at next week’s meeting of the Economy and Infrastru
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Chair welcomes over £600k of regeneration funding for Highland project
Published 22 May 2025The Chair of The Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee, Councillor Ken Gowans, has welcomed the announcement that a Highland project has been successful in applying for funding suppo