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INVERNESS lost its harbour area lorry park last week when the Harbour Trustees took it over for redevelopment, but a new site should be in use later this year.
Highland Regional Council is meeting next week to decide whether to go ahead with plans to create a 60-vehicle park in the Longman Industrial Estate, and in the meantime it has created temporary kerbside parking at a riverside site in the town.
An HRC spokesman told CM that the new site would be capable of handling all the traffic catered for by the harbour site, and he said he expected that a £1 per night charge would apply. The closure of the harbour park has disturbed timber hauliers whose work pattern has been reversed following the closure of the Fort William pulp mill.
Now their traffic is travelling east, rather than west, as some 4.5m tons of timber is being exported annually through Inverness, Invergordon, Burghead and Montrose harbours.