New Town Tornagrain Gets Go Ahead From Highland Councillors
19th September 2012
A proposal to build a new town to accommodate up tp 10,000 residents in over 4000 new homes to be built over a 30 - 40 year period finally got the go ahead today
The proposals relate to the creation of a new community on 259 hectares of land on the A96(T) just to the north east of Tornagrain and south of Inverness Airport.
It is envisaged that the town will have a population of around 10,000 when built out over an estimated 30-40 year period. A master plan supporting the proposal indicates that development will be progressed on a phased basis with the first phases centred on the existing A96(T) - Croy road. There will be seven main phases with development undertaken in smaller sub-phases.
An earlier planning meeting has approved the application but this was challenged by a group of councillors claiming no vote had been taken. At today's meeting the vote taken showed 17 for the application and only 3 against.
Moray Estates Development Company Ltd, the applicant wil now move to prepare detailed plans for the early stages of the development which is expected to create many new construction jobs.
See the full report at
http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/44A5252F-C838-418D-9315-F17E69FAD78F/0/Item51PLS04912.pdf
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