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BBC News
30-04-2025
- Business
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Affordable homes built on Cairngorms ski hotel site in Carrbridge
A £1.4m project to help address a lack of affordable housing in the Highlands has been new one and two bedroom flats have been built in Carrbridge as part of a Highland Council properties, which are now ready for social rent, are on the site of the former Struan Hotel - Scotland's "first ski hotel".Inverness-based Compass Building and Construction Services built the homes and the project was supported by funding from the Scottish government's More Homes Division. Highland Council convener Bill Lobban said Badenoch and Strathspey had been "crying out" for affordable said the Scottish government's funding had helped the local authority to deliver low-cost homes, and had supported the construction Struan Hotel played a part in the early days of making the Cairngorms a winter sports hotel closed in 2006 and over the years fell derelict and was had been previous unsuccessful attempts to turn the Main Street hotel into homes.
BBC News
27-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Council tax rise of 7% proposed for Highland
Highland Council has proposed raising council tax by 7%.Annual bills for an average band D property would be £1,527.09 if the increase is approved by councillors at a meeting on 6 local authority said 2% of all council tax raised would be invested in schools and improving Bill Lobban said the council was proposing a three-year budget plan that would lead to financial security for the authority. Council tax levels were frozen last its plan, Highland Council said it would spend £2m to fund an increase in numbers of has also proposed creating a £6m fund to expand its bus this month, the local authority completed a deal to take over an Inverness-based company that provides a significant number of its school local authority said buying D&E Coaches would reduce its school transport costs, and also help in its efforts to improve local bus council spends about £25m a year on school and public transport included in Highland's budget plan is a £500,000 fund to support community-based recycling schemes. Council leader Raymond Bremner said the proposed investment programme would create jobs and economic prosperity across the Lobban added: "These budget proposals underline our steadfast journey towards our objective of financial sustainability. "They would also ensure Highland Council will not require to use reserves to balance its budget and therefore is taking a major step on its pathway to financial security, which will be of great reassurance to our 10,000 employees."
