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New image of planned Highland town released

An artist's impression of the proposed Tornagrain square
An artist's impression of the proposed Tornagrain square

This is the newest glimpse of a future new town between Inverness and Nairn.

The colourful image shows a row of white-washed terraced houses overlooking the square at Tornagrain.

The new settlement, which is being developed by Moray Estates, will be built over a period of up to 50 years and will eventually be home to 10,000 people.

It will include nearly 5,000 homes, three primary schools, shops, churches and community facilities.

The new picture was revealed as part of a recent community liaison meeting, which updated local residents in Croy on the project’s progress.

Infrastructure works have continued on site in recent months following diversion of a local gas pipeline.

Andrew Howard, of Moray Estates, said they soon hope to be in a position to announce which two companies will build the first phase.

Phase one will consist of a mix of 190 homes including flats, terraced, semi detached and detached house.

A quarter of the houses in the development will be affordable homes.

Initially it is expected that between 35 and 45 houses will be completed each year in phase one. The pace of construction will increase over time as the development grows in scale.

Mr Howard said: “We always planned to have more than one developer on the site and we hope to award contracts to two experienced builders before the end of the year. It’s very important to us that we get people who can deliver the high quality we expect and who also appreciate what we are trying to achieve in terms of our approach to design.”

Work is due to start in early 2015 on various parts of the infrastructure with house building due to begin in the summer.

Mr Howard added: “Sometimes people forget that this is a very long term project and it will not appear overnight. It’s going to take 50 to 60 years for the new town to be completed.”

One of the first stages will be to upgrade the road from the A96 to Croy with initial work concentrated on the section up to the Tornagrain site.