Focus on Dingwall High Street Lighting

Work starts this week on a project to install new decorative lighting on Dingwall High Street. Victorian-style lighting columns are being erected between the National Hotel and the Railway Station to replace existing lighting columns, which are over 30 years old and in poor condition.

The new installation will upgrade the standard of the lighting on the High Street for all users and at the same time improve the daytime scene in this area.

Being carried out by contractors, Jim Allan from Ardersier, the work is likely to take three weeks to complete. The Council has promised to keep disruption to a minimum.

Highland Councillor for Dingwall and Seaforth Margaret Paterson said: “I am very pleased to that work is underway to improve the lighting on Dingwall High Street. The existing lighting was in a poor state of condition and the new lights will light up this area of the town, giving it a new dimension.”

She stressed that funding was coming from the Transport Environmental and Community Services’ budget – and that this was a quite separate project from the one proposed by the Planning and Development Service in the High Street.

The estimated cost of the works is £25,000.