Highland councillors to discuss twin strategies for improvements to Inverness
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Inverness councillors will examine two overlapping proposals to improve life in the city.
Two separate strategies for developing the city in the years to come have been developed – Highland Council’s Inverness City Centre Vision and Inverness: One City, One Vision produced by the Inverness Futures Group.
Councillors at the rescheduled Inverness area committee will be asked on Monday to give the go-ahead for consultations with the public, businesses and organisations and to incorporate the Inverness: One City, One Vision into council plans.
The council’s strategy seeks to give the city an economic, social and cultural lift by improving, developing or redeveloping existing infrastructure to create a better place to live and visit for all.
To do that it targets individual projects – 61 in all, not including dozens of potential proposals – that seek to improve access, boost business, reduce climate harms, increase housing and raise the standard of living.
More than a dozen major projects have been delivered since 2018 while a further 13 are expected to be finished by 2025 and a third wave should be finished by 2030 .
If it includes the Inverness Futures Group’s broader vision for the city as a whole then that list would grow well beyond the city centre, but its details are yet to be determined.
The Inverness Futures Group’s vision aims to inform concrete plans for the future that encapsulate the whole city of the city, not just the city centre, hoping to make it a greener, more liveable, family-friendly place with lively cultural and economic sectors.
Gaining council support would help put flesh on the bones of ambitions for a better and more liveable place for all while delivering on climate objectives through improved infrastructure.
Inverness MP Drew Hendry, chairman of the Inverness Futures Group, said: “Creating a great place to live, work and study is greater than any one organisation and I am excited to work with constituents and city leaders.”
