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BBC News
22-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Plans for Inverness heat networks to be progressed further
Councillors have agreed that plans for large low-carbon heat networks in Inverness should be progressed Council has identified a number of potential locations for the systems, including the city centre, Longman and Raigmore networks involve distributing energy from a central source, often using underground pipes to carry hot authority officials are to assess the costs and also the best heating systems for the different networks. Properties could be warmed by one or more facilities that extract heat from air, water or hydrogen and systems that draw thermal energy from warm water that households flush down drains could also be of the properties are currently heated by mains estimated costs of a heat network in Inverness range from £30m to £ of the proposed zones, the west bank of the River Ness has a "high level" of social housing and risk of fuel poverty, according to a report discussed by councillors this also contains buildings with high heating demands, including Highland Council's headquarters, Eden Court arts venue, Inverness Leisure swimming pool complex and the city's botanic of the buildings, Inverness Ice Centre, has been struggling with its energy officers said the area could benefit from a heat said an energy centre could potentially be built on council-owned land near Highland Rugby Club's stadium. The officials said the city centre was one of the highest density areas in Inverness with more than 298 include shops, offices, hotels, Eastgate Shopping Centre and also Inverness Castle and the Town is an industrial area and officers have suggested waste water heating and hydrogen systems could be includes housing, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness Campus and new prison HMP Highland.
BBC News
13-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Heat networks could warm Inverness homes in the future
Parts of Inverness have been identified as potential locations for large heating networks in the Council, along with Scotland's other local authorities, have been asked by the Scottish government to come up with strategies to improve energy efficiency. Heat networks involve distributing energy from a central source, often using underground pipes to carry hot water. Inverness' west bank of the River Ness, the city centre, Longman and Raigmore areas could have networks, according to a report to Highland Council's climate change committee. Properties would be warmed by one or more systems that extract heat from air, water or underground. Biomass, hydrogen and facilities that draw thermal energy from warm water households flush down drains could also be of the properties are currently heated by mains gas. The report to next week's committee meeting said the west bank had a "high level" of social housing and risk of fuel also contains buildings with high heating demands, including Highland Council's headquarters, Eden Court arts venue, Inverness Leisure swimming pool complex and the city's botanic of the buildings, Inverness Ice Centre, has been struggling with its energy officers said the area could benefit from a heating said an energy centre could potentially be built on council-owned land near Highland Rugby Club's of building the network could run to £37m. The officials said the city centre was one of the highest density areas in Inverness with more than 298 buildings. They shops, offices, hotels, Eastgate Shopping Centre and also Inverness' castle and town costs of creating that network could be an estimated £ is an industrial area and officers have suggested waste water heating and hydrogen systems could be have recommended a number of networks across the area, with costs potentially running to almost £ includes housing, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness Campus and new prison HMP the area could be broken up and covered by a number of heating networks with overall costs of more than £54m.
Press and Journal
02-05-2025
- Automotive
- Press and Journal
Revealed: The Inverness car park where you're most likely to get a fine
The number of car parking fines dished out at Highland Council's Inverness headquarters has quadrupled in the past two years. Figures published by the council showed the Rose Street multi-storey car park was the most common place in the city for drivers to be hit in 2024. There were also 72 fines handed out at 'invitation to pay' car parks in the city last year. Although there is no obligation to pay at those sites, drivers were still stung for parking there when they had no road tax or no MOT, being parked in a disabled bay without a blue badge or being parked outside of the marked bays. At Highland Council's Glenurquhart Road headquarters, there were 40 parking fines issued in 2022. That in 2024. Pay-and-display parking was introduced at the council's HQ in February 2017. The spaces are reserved for staff and visitors during working hours Monday to Friday, but members of the public can pay to use it from 4pm to 8am on those days and all day Saturday and Sunday. There was also a multi-storey car park. In 2022, there were 152 fines. The number was 202 a year later and the 2024 figure was 306. The car park uses barriers and drivers are unable to get out unless they've validated their ticket. The majority of fines issued at Rose Street were for: Rose Street's 2024 figure is higher than for any other council-run car park in the Highland capital. Prior to that, the most common location for a parking fine was at the much smaller Raining's Stairs car park. Enforcement there has stayed pretty consistent in the last three years. There were 273 fines in 2022, 276 in 2023 and 271 in 2024. Other popular locations for parking violations in 2024 were at Eden Court (200), Inverness Cathedral (179), the Town House (171), Portland Place (47) and Crown Church (27). The 'invitation to pay' car parks where fines were issued were at Inverness Leisure (48), Torvean (21) and Whin Park (3). Across all the city car parks, the. Income from these fines increased from £6,553 in 2022 to £8,056 in 2024.
BBC News
04-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Highland Council takes over Inverness bus firm D&E Coaches
Highland Council has 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 and wife Donald and Elizabeth Mathieson set up D&E Coaches almost 30 years ago and it has a fleet of 60 vehicles. Highland Council said the cost of the deal was commercially confidential. Highland Council said it intended to run the company on a "business as usual" local authority's in-house bus team already operates 16 public service include a new "shopper service" linking a number of Inverness housing developments with retail costs around contracts for public transport led Highland Council to set up its own bus team. D&E Coaches started in 1996 with just one mini director Mr Mathieson said: "We feel as a family firm that that we have taken the company as far as we can. "Moving forward, we feel that the acquisition of D&E Coaches by Highland Council is the best move for the company and everyone concerned, including our staff and customers. "We are also pleased that the company will move into local authority/public ownership."D&E Coaches contracts have included bussing pupils from more than 200 schools to Inverness for Eden Court's pantomime around Christmas 2023, the company became the official transport service for the Belladrum Tartan Heart music festival near Beauly.
