Infrastructure

Highland Council’s planning officers have recommended a formal objection to one of the largest electricity transmission projects proposed in northern Scotland: a 173-kilometre 400kV overhead line from Spittal in Caithness to Beauly, with towers averaging about 57 metres high. Councillors began considering that recommendation

In 1975, workers began removing 1.8 million tonnes of Torridonian sandstone from a Highland mountainside to create a construction yard capable of building one of the largest objects Scotland had ever made. Half a century later, rock is being blasted at Kishorn again. A