Council invites people to ‘Remember at Home’
Locals, residents and veterans will be encouraged to continue to follow the guidelines and pay their respects on their own doorsteps.
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Lochaber
Warning to landowners as council greenlights 2021 visitor plan
A multi-agency environmental health group was also established to co-ordinate enforcement and communications on ‘dirty camping’ issues and to share best practice.
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Council tourism audit identifies gaps and opportunities, including toilets and parking
An additional 20 locations have been identified as possible gaps in public toilet provision that perhaps comfort schemes or other arrangements might provide for visitors.
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Update sought on visitor levy
The Tourism Committee also agreed that the chair writes to the UK Government to ask for a permanent reduction in VAT that would benefit the tourism and hospitality sector now and for the next few years.
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Garden waste collections continue until the end of November
The Garden Waste Collection Service is for the recycling of the following from your garden: grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, twigs and small branches, flowers, plants and weeds. Customers are asked to check the contents of their bin to ensure it contains no contamination.
Lochaber
New Broadford Primary School to take big step forward
Along with local elected representatives for Skye, the local parent council has been campaigning for years for the present dilapidated building to be replaced.
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Lochaber councillors support approach to tackle visitor management
To tackle roads, parking and transport service issues the council will introduce ‘not suitable for large vehicles’ signs on some narrow rural and single-track roads and missing passing place signs at priority locations will be replaced.
Lochaber
Atlantic Views: Joanne Matheson
At a meeting taking place today, (September 10) councillors are being asked to approve this altered formula. If approved this will be yet another example of Inverness applying one rule for them, and another for the rest of us, and will be contrary to what Scottish Government intended, for ‘100 percent of revenues’ to go to local communities.
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Lochaber anger over council handling of Crown Estates cash windfall
Local MSP Kate Forbes said the Highlands has benefited from the very significant share of the money because of the coastline in remote and rural areas – not least the Lochaber coastline.
Lochaber
Call for Lochaber to break away from Highland Council
Andrew Baxter told fellow councillors the report was possibly ‘the most alarming report’ he had ever seen come before a committee.