Development brief to be drafted following Torvean and Ness-side Charrette

The Highland Council is to draft a development brief for the Torvean, Ness-side and Charleston areas of Inverness for consultation early in the new year following a four-day planning workshop which attracted more than 200 participants, including local secondary school pupils.

The event was judged to have been a great success and ended on Thursday evening with the presentation of a masterplan of the area.

Consensus was reached on the following issues:

Details to be confirmed include:

Inverness Provost Councillor Alex Graham, who chaired the opening and closing sessions of the charrette at the Culduthel Christian Centre, said: “This has been a very worthwhile exercise, with intensive discussions which produced many good ideas. The next stage is drafting a development brief for the area, which will come to the Council for approval before going out for public consultation early in 2013. There is now an opportunity to make this distinctive area of Inverness even more special, including the possibility of a sporting hub to match any in Scotland.”