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SpaceHub Sutherland: The SHS team are holding more events this week – in both the Melness Community Centre (Tuesday 19th February, 15.30-20.00) and the Pentland Hotel, Thurso (Wednesday 20th February, 15.30-20.00). They would welcome anyone with a question to pop in and meet. A reminder that the project team have also created a web presence […]
SpaceHub Sutherland: The SHS team were in the Kyle Community Centre in Tongue for the first of a planned weekly presence in the area on Wednesdays between 1000 to 1300 hrs to allow people to meet with the project team. They would welcome anyone with a question to pop in and meet. As I mentioned […]
SpaceHub Sutherland: The SHS team were in Melness yesterday (Thursday), continuing its series of engagement events with the local community. The drop-in event was in Melness Village Hall and had the additional benefit of personnel from Lockheed Martin being present to help answer questions on the project. The team are also in the process of […]
SpaceHub Sutherland: The team working on this exciting project have now created a web presence at www.spacehubsutherland.com which will be a central resource for information about the project as it progresses. And the team will be on the ground in Melness next week, continuing the series of engagement events with the local community. The drop-in […]
Enabling activities: Last week’s meeting of the North Coast 500 Working Group heard about the imminent launch of the Scottish Government’s Natural and Cultural Heritage Fund. The £5M Fund is being administered by Scottish Natural Heritage, and is open to organisations in the Highlands and Islands. It opened for applications this week, and the deadline […]
Energy & Business Services: It was good to meet this week with a large company seeking to grow its presence in Caithness, and good to be able to provide some productive links with initiatives that HIE is already supporting and which might help further attract its interest. We are fortunate in having a number of […]
My weekly CNSRP updates are intended to be short and informative – the same applies to this handy review of 2018 as it relates to the work of CNSRP! Our focus this year has remained on those key opportunities we feel will bring us maximum economic and socio-economic returns. And, amidst wider economic uncertainties, we […]
UKVL Sutherland: The UKVL team was in Tongue last week to hold another drop-in session to update local residents on progress with the project. It was good to hear that the team are producing a newsletter as part of the commitment to communicating, and that this is now available on the projects web page at […]
UKVL Sutherland: I was delighted to take part in a discussion this week in Thurso with Trudy Morris of Caithness Chamber, the HIE team taking forward the UKVL project and UK/ US representatives from Lockheed Martin.As I have previously highlighted here, Lockheed Martin are one of the two industry partners involved in the project, and […]
Energy & Business Services: Following last week’s Offshore Wind Week Crown Estate Scotland has just published its report into future licensing rounds for offshore wind leases. http://www.crownestatescotland.com/media-and-notices/news-media-releases-opinion/timescales-and-next-steps-for-new-offshore-wind-leasing-for-scotland at the same time it has been interesting to note that Highland Council’s north planning committee this week agreed to raise no objection to the application by Moray […]