Work starts on repairs to columns critical for stability of busy Inverness car park
Structural repair works have started at Inverness’ Rose Street multi-storey car park for four weeks.
The project got underway yesterday and involves concrete repairs to 25 columns mostly on the ground floor.
A spokesperson for operators Highland Council said: “As these columns are critical to the stability of the building, temporary propping will be installed around the worst effected columns to ensure the structural safety of the building during the works.
“The works are to enable the reopening of the areas which are currently fenced off.”
The car park will remain open during the works with a small area of the ground floor closed off for the contractor’s compound.
The areas where the propping is located will also be closed but these are entirely located within out of bound areas.
Some smaller areas will be closed for short durations.
Permit holders on the ground floor will be temporarily relocated for the duration of the works and have been contacted directly with more information.
The cordoned off parking bays have made it very difficult for motorists from the strath and elsewhere to finding parking spaces at busy times at the facility by the city centre.