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The council is based at the Highland Council Headquarters on Glenurquhart Road, in Inverness. [15] The oldest part of the building was originally a school, which was completed in 1876. [16] The complex was bought by the old Inverness-shire County Council in the 1930s and was significantly extended in the 1960s. [17]
The council's website only sometimes refers to the area as being Highland, and other times as being the Highland Council Area or the Highlands. [3] [4] Road signs on the boundary of the council area say "Welcome to the Highlands" rather than "Welcome to Highland". Road sign on the A9 where it enters the Highland council area south of Kingussie
The Highland Council Headquarters, formerly County Buildings, is a municipal structure in Glenurquhart Road, Inverness, Highland, Scotland. The oldest part of the complex, which currently serves as the headquarters of The Highland Council , is a Category C listed building .
The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies, as existing at that time. [2] They covered all of four council areas, [3] the Highland council area, Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles council area), the Orkney Isles council area and the Shetland Isles council area, and most of two others, the Argyll and Bute council area and the Moray council ...
Internally, the principal room was the council chamber. [10] After the abolition of Ross and Cromarty County Council in 1975, ownership of the main building passed to Highland Regional Council and, following the introduction of unitary authorities in 1995, ownership based to The Highland Council. It subsequently continued to be used by the ...
Inverness Town Council was replaced by the larger Inverness District Council in 1975, one of the lower-tier districts within the Highland region. The district council used the town house as its headquarters. [10] [11] Inverness District Council was in turn abolished in 1996 when the Highland region was redesignated as a single-tier council area ...
The Highland Council election, 2007: Cromarty Firth Party Candidate FPv% % Seat Count Independent: Carolyn Wilson: 1,348 29.7 1 1 SNP: Maxine Smith: 1,021 22.5 2 1 Liberal Democrats: Martin Rattray: 647 14.3 3 7 Independent: Mike Finlayson: 438 9.7 4 9 Labour: John MacInnes 438 9.7 Independent: John Connell 307 6.8 Conservative: Hamish Keir 141 ...
The most recent election of the council was on 5 May 2022, and resulted in a coalition administration formed by the SNP and the Independent group. [4] The Coalition had 39 councillors, and the opposition was divided between 15 Lib Dem, 10 Conservatives, 2 Labour and 4 Green councillors plus 4 independent members who were not part of the ruling group.