Town & Country Planning

The Highland Council

NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF REPLACEMENT OF NORTH WEST SUTHERLAND, TONGUE & FARR, GOLSPIE & LAIRG AND SOUTH & EAST SUTHERLAND LOCAL PLANS*

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997

THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF PLANS AND PROGRAMMES (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2004

SUTHERLAND LOCAL PLAN DEPOSIT DRAFT

DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT

The Highland Council have prepared the Replacement of the above named Local Plans*.

Certified copies of the replacement of the Plans, and the statement mentioned in Section 12(5) of the Act together with the accompanying Draft Environmental Report have been deposited at:

The Area Planning and Building Standards Office, The Meadows, Dornoch;

The Highland Council Service Points at Bettyhill, Bonar Bridge, Brora, Dornoch, Durness, Golspie, Helmsdale, Lairg and Lochinver;

Libraries at Brora, Dornoch, Golspie and Lairg;

Local Post Offices in Sutherland;

The Planning and Development Service Headquarters, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness.

The deposited documents are available for inspection free of charge during normal opening hours. The documents are also available on The Highland Council website at www.highland.gov.uk (click on the link under consultations on the home page) and on the mobile libraries operating in Sutherland.

Objections or supporting representations to the replacement of the Plans and any comments on the Draft Environmental Report should be sent in writing to the undersigned to be received no later than 5.00pm on Friday 1 February 2008 . Objections or supporting representations should state the name and address of the objector or supporter, the matters to which they relate and the grounds on which they are made. Objectors and supporters should specify the page, paragraph number or site allocation reference to which the objection or supporting representation relates. A form which you may wish to use for submitting representations is available at the places where the Plan documents may be inspected, and from The Highland Council website www.highland.gov.uk.

For further information contact:

David Cowie (Sutherland Local Plan Team Leader) Tel: 01463 702827

Brian MacKenzie (South & East Sutherland) Tel: 01463 702276

Julie-Ann Bain (Central Sutherland) Tel: 01463 702266

Katie Briggs (North & West Sutherland) Tel: 01463 702271

Email: sutherlandlp@highland.gov.uk

* The area covered by the new Local Plan comprises The Highland Council Wards 1 and 5 and is shown in the documents that are available for inspection. You can check which Council Ward a postal address falls in on our website. The new Local Plan area substantially coincides with the combined areas of the North West Sutherland, Tongue & Farr, Golspie & Lairg and South & East Sutherland Local Plans. Its area also coincides with some small parts of the areas covered by the Caithness, Ross & Cromarty East and Wester Ross Local Plans. The new Local Plan, once adopted, will therefore replace these seven older Local Plans but only in so far as they relate to any part of the area of the new Sutherland Local Plan. Please contact us as above if you have any queries about the area covered by the new Local Plan.

Mr John D. Rennilson

Director of Planning and Development

The Highland Council

Glenurquhart Road

INVERNESS IV3 5NX.