Work on improvements to Boat of Garten nursery school to resume
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Highland Council has said that preparatory work to resume construction activity on three key school projects has commenced.
Work will also resume on a range of other school improvement projects that were suspended in March.
This includes new or refurbished nursery accommodation at Deshar Primary School in Boat of Garten as well as Durness, Keiss, Rosebank, Tomnacross and Tongue primary schools that are all part of the Early Learning and Childcare expansion programme.
The new buildings are at Alness Academy and Merkinch Primary, and the other major project is the refurbishment of Inverness High School.
A spokesperson said: "The contractors will follow Scottish Government and construction industry guidance to ensure a safe return to work and a phased approach to increasing site activity.
"Individual plans on the measures required at each location are being developed in conjunction with the council’s in-house project teams and school management, and with particular consideration to the return of pupils and staff in August."
Work on all three projects will continue beyond the start of the new school session in August.
Councillor John Finlayson, chair of Highland Council’s education committee, said: “It is good to hear that work will resume on these important projects which communities are keen to see finished and which will also I hope be just the start of work on many more capital school projects across Highland going forward.
"Earlier in the year the council agreed priorities to further improve our school estate in partnership with the Scottish Government and it is important that we are still ambitious to see these plans realised.”
