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The owners say they want to host ‘a mix of DJ's and bands along with dancing’.
Allegations of secrecy emerged during what critics fear is the last financial update until ‘10 days before the budget is set’.
Highland Council unanimously backs the move after region lost 218 beds in two years.
Councillor Helen Crawford says ‘people are starting to say that the education committee is dysfunctional’.
A bid to improve information triggered a furious reaction from administration councillors.
The request was made at a full council meeting over the ‘unwanted, unneeded and unwelcome Academy Street fiasco’.
Finance bosses fear that any Westminster boost may fall far short of making up the loss they imposed adding a significant budget pressure.
Most of the cash was recovered but bosses say due to the ‘complexities’ of paying a workforce of 10,000 it could happen again.
The plan emerged from the redesign board tasked with ‘professionalising’ and reforming council services.
The council insists that it is one of most improved local authorities in Scotland.
Most councillors backed a move that will see the whole region run from Inverness despite widespread dissatisfaction.
Most of that has been recovered but £396,000 is yet to be returned.
The costs were just released after a question from Conservative group leader Ruraidh Stewart.
Councillors were split amid concerns about the size of the outlet but the casting vote went to planning chairman.
Local Councillors David Fraser and Chris Ballance called for it to be rejected planning over inappropriate siting.
Nairn’s Provost wants to see the break-up of Highland Council in a bid to “bring back local democracy to Nairn”.
That is despite a large increase in Scottish Government funding announced in the draft budget.
Council leader Raymond Bremner will be put on the spot with estimates putting the final tally at hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Tourism groups welcome the move saying if it is ‘well-implemented’ it could ‘bring significant benefits to our region’.
The move to ‘better serve’ the north follows Kate Forbes’ call to dismantle the local authority.
