Protective netting hung over Inverness Eastgate Centre mall during maintenance work

A curtain of green plastic netting has been hung below the glass ceiling of the Eastgate Centre's main mall to protect people walking below during planned maintenance.

Rod Callender, the centre's operations manager said: "We are just carrying out some planned building maintenance to the roof and atrium cladding.

"People will also notice we have a scaffold and small compound at the High Street entrance."

Asked if the work will help reduce rainwater that has been dripping onto the mall floor during bad weather, Mr Callender added: "The works will reduce and resolve some of the issues but as I am sure you can imagine maintaining a 40-year-old flat roofed building in the Highlands, there is a continual programme in place so some resolutions may be a little further down the line before they are completed."

The work coincides with gas mains upgrading by SGN on the lower part of Crown Road which has been closed for three or four days with barriers erected in the Eastgate beside the shopping centre.

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