Inverness Caley Thistle battery storage company officially files for dissolution with Companies House
The final chapter in one of Inverness Caledonian Thistle’s most controversial sagas in recent years appears to be looming large.
Former directors Ross Morrison and David Cameron have officially applied for ICT Battery Storage Limited to be struck off the Companies’ House register and dissolved.
The application was filed today, on April 2, but Morrison signed the application on March 14 and Cameron followed suit on March 27.
It draws a close to a scheme that was intended to raise millions of pounds for the football club, but ended up being a major example of the disconnect between ICT’s leadership and fanbase, who felt that directors’ focus was too far away from the pitch.
Plans called for a facility behind Fairways Business Centre comprising 52 battery storage containers is claimed could power every Highland home for at least two hours saving 20,000 tons of carbon, that was estimated to bring £3.4 million into Caley Thistle.
That was originally passed by Highland Council’s South Planning Applications Committee by three votes to two, however five days later the committee’s chairman and vice chairman – Councillors Thomas MacLennan and Paul Oldham – submitted a notice of amendment to have it reviewed.
Both councillors voted against the application and then wrote to other members arguing that a vote involving just five members was “not a good look” for the local authority.
In a full Highland Council meeting held in March, councillors voted 30 to 23 against the project. Inverness Caledonian Thistle then appealed Highland Council’s decision to the Scottish Government, which was rejected in November.
Realistically, that left the company with nowhere left to go, and the application to dissolve ICT Battery Storage Limited brings a final conclusion to the saga.
