Go-ahead given for Cabot Highland plans at Castle Stuart golf course development
A new purpose-built administrative hub along with refurbished farm buildings are set to form part of the development of a second world-class golf course near Inverness.
Canadian-owned Cabot Highland, which bought Castle Stuart Golf Links in June 2022, is developing a second 18-hole course at the site.
A planning application to repair and repurpose two agricultural buildings at nearby Scottack Farm and to build a new business hub as part of the wider development has been approved by Highland Council.
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The new course, designed by world-renowned golf course architect Tom Doak, it is expected to be ready for preview play in late 2024.
There was also an opportunity to incorporate the Scottack Farm outbuildings into the development, providing a hub from which the overall management of the course and golf facility will be managed.
The repurposed buildings will be used to store equipment including tractors and mowers.
The plans also propose demolishing an existing building to the west of the main building and redeveloping the site to provide a new business hub incorporating facilities for maintenance and administration staff.
Planning officers state in their report that the new building is a contemporary design, using timber cladding for the walls and profiled steel roof sheeting with photovoltaic panels on the roof.
"Its location is suitable in terms of siting and will not look out of place and will replace an agricultural building of similar scale and represents an improvement in terms of visual amenity," the report states.
"It is designed to provide an attractive focal point for golfers while also providing staff facilities for those associated with the management of the golf course."
