Extension for Inverness vet, Dornoch holiday lets and outdoor classrooms for Fort William centre

By Sean McAngus

November 15 2022, 6:00 am

Extension to current Scottish Vets Referrals which is at the UHI Inverness Campus.

It’s that time of the week again for a round-up of planning news across the Highlands.

Officials have approved plans for 10 outdoor classrooms at a Fort William learning centre. They’re also OK with new holiday lets on a Sutherland estate.

Permission is sought for an extension to the Scottish Vets Referrals building at the UHI Inverness Campus.

Submitted: More help for animals

Major plans have been submitted for an extension to the Scottish Vet Referrals building at the University of Highlands and Islands’ Inverness Campus.

The existing facility, which provides specialist ophthalmic and orthopaedic
veterinary services referred from general practice, was built in 2015.

Now bosses want to build a single-storey extension to the existing building to provide additional capacity complete with a screen fence to site and increase car parking space.

Meanwhile, Scottish Vet Referrals will also be in talks with site owners Highland and Islands Enterprise (HIE). They want to acquire additional land to expand the car park to provide 25 spaces and two further disabled bays.

Drawing impressions of proposed changes to facility.

Approved: Cambusavie holiday lets

Farm buildings will be demolished to make way for four-holiday lets on a Sutherland estate.

Cambusavie Estate had lodged the plans.

According to the Dornoch visitor management plan, accommodation in nearby Dornoch appeared to be at capacity last year, particularly in July and August.

Cambusmore Estate, as featured in the Goldcrest Land and Forestry brochure.

Bosses are hoping to provide more accommodation for the visitors to the area.

Since June, the current holiday lets on the estate they have already welcomed more than 35 guests, who were visiting the area for leisure and golf at the Royal Dornoch Golf Course.