Welcome to our weekly round-up of planning news across the Highlands.
The long-awaited – and much talked about – new prison for Inverness takes a step forward with planners.
An Inverness city centre hotel is installing a car parking management system.
And a North Kessock home which has plans for an extension and a garage has also thrown in an application for a skate park.
Plans for home extension and skate park
The plans are for a home at Windrill, Drumsmittal, North Kessock in Inverness.
This extension will see a games, cinema room, gym and wellness room which includes a pool added to the ground floor.
Meanwhile a timber shed will be built.
Reynolds Architecture is representing T Campbell in the planning application.
In the past week, Highland Council has also determined some applications.
Removal of chimney breast at castle
Aldourie Castle will remove a chimney breast as part of a revamp of the Laird’s Room.
Ptolemy Dean Architects Limited is representing the castle.
It is hoped the refurbishment will help restore the room’s “historic symmetry”.
The estate is situated on Strath Dores, located between the southern shores of Loch Ness and the steep sides of the Glen; just eight miles west of Inverness.
It is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, who owns fashion retailer Bestseller.
He is Scotland’s biggest private landowner boasting over 220,000 acres of land.
He bought it for £15 million in 2014.
Highland prison moves forward
The building of the new HMP Highland will move forward.
Planning officials have approved this application which is designed to satisfy and discharge the planning conditions on the original planning permission.
The prison will replace the overcrowded Porterfield Prison in the Crown area of Inverness.
It will house 200 inmates and will be located next to Inverness Shopping Park, the city’s largest retail park.
The development includes visits building, family help hub, regimes and facilities building, community integration unit and car parking.
But the Scottish Government confirmed that the work actually remains on track for completion in 2024.
Car parking management system at Inverness hotel
Parking Eye’s Yaseen Lahe will get car park management at the Glen Mhor Hotel car park installed.
The system at the Inverness hotel on Ness Bank will utilise automatic number plate recognition cameras to monitor the entrance and exit of vehicles within the car park.
The site is currently used as a car park with 80 parking bays.
The proposal will provide management of the existing car park to reduce
car park abuse and ensure that spaces are available for genuine site users.
In a previous Planning Ahead round-up, we reported that the Perfume Studio in Achnasheen had received approval to be turned into a home.
The owner has highlighted that the business will continue to trade for the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
The conversion will only be in effect from spring 2024 at which point it will become a self catering rental property.
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