Local Housing
Highland Council Development Newsletter
Development Plans Newsletter
We are pleased to announce the publication of our March 2024 Development Plans Newsletter, which gives an overview as to how land use planning documents are prepared by The Highland Council, and how and when you or your local community can get involved.
This newsletter provides updates on the current local development plans in the Highland area (Highland-wide, Inner Moray Firth, Caithness and Sutherland, and West Highlands and Islands), and gives the latest timings for the new, single Highland Local Development Plan, including the evidence gathering, monitoring, and consultation that will be carried out to inform the new Plan.
To view our latest newsletter, please visit: www.highland.gov.uk/developmentplansnewsletter
Highland Place Standard survey tool
Our March 2024 Development Plans Newsletter provides information on the launch of our Highland Place Standard survey tool, which can be used by any individual or group and is one of the ways to input to the new Highland Local Development Plan and other workstreams.
The Highland Place Standard is a key way of gathering people’s lived experience from across and around Highland and we would welcome its completion by Community Councils, and also any encouragement that you can give to people in your community to take part in the survey too.
The survey can be accessed through our March 2024 Newsletter or via the following link: www.highland.gov.uk/yourplacehighland, where you can also view the privacy notice that includes information on how anonymised information from the survey may be shared.
We will be in touch about further opportunities to be involved in the new Highland LDP during the coming year. We are writing to you separately with our March 2024 update on Local Place Planning.
Participation Statement feedback form
We want to make sure that our approach to consultation will work for the people and organisations who are living, working, and investing in the Highland region.
In our March 2024 Development Plans Newsletter, the Participation Statement includes updates to reflect the findings from the Participation Statement Survey that we ran in 2023.
We now have a feedback form that will remain open on an ongoing basis should anyone wish to give us feedback on our Participation Statement at any point going forward. The feedback form can be accessed through our March 2024 Newsletter or via the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/FqidGWV67j, where you can also view the privacy notice.
With kind regards
Sent on behalf of Scott Dalgarno, Development Plans Manager
Dores Housing Site Next To Church
We have had correspondence about a site survey for the entry road into the proposed new housing site next to the church, see below.
Good Afternoon
I work for John McHardy within the Housing Development team at Highland Council. I have been leading on the above project on behalf of our team, and I just wanted to make you aware that there will be some activity on site this coming Friday as we carrying out some site investigations prior to the proposed road getting progressed.
Should you have any queries regarding the works proposed for this Friday please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me,
Kind Regards
Paula
Paula Grant
Housing Development Officer
Inner Moray Firth Development Plan Commentary
The CC submitted comments to the local plan and the comments and proposals by HC are in the consultation phase due for submission by the 20th June. We will finalise this at the next CC meeting this coming Monday.
We agreed that we would give an opportunity for interested members of the community to see what the Community Council is proposing to submit and to be able to comment. The Community Council is to submit comments to the Highland Council on the Proposed Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan (IMFLDP) by the due date of 17th June 2022. A draft of those comments is attached which will be considered for approval at the Community Council meeting on 13th June. If you have any comments or queries please direct them to the Secretary before that meeting. Alternatively, you may wish to make comments directly to the Council using the link www.highland.gov.uk/imf
House Plot for Sale West Torbreck
Local Housing
At our most recent Community Council meeting we discussed the future housing plans for the village with talks of housing near the church and the possible site near the hall with a mix of opportunities for mid market rent, affordable and possible plots for self build.
What was pointed out was the importance of making sure your name is on the housing register and the Highland Housing Alliance register. Even if you were registered before they renewed the HHR list and try to contact people to reregister but if you haven’t received that or missed it you won’t be on the list.
You can check or make your application for the Highland Housing Register here
https://www.highland.gov.uk/info/925/council_housing/244/apply_for_a_house/6
And you can check or apply to be on the list for Highland Housing Alliance here