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Affordable homes built on Cairngorms ski hotel site

Highland Council The flats are white walled properties with windows along the walls and on a corner of a wall. The complex has peaked roofs.Highland Council
The properties in Carrrbidge are available to rent

A £1.4m project to help address a lack of affordable housing in the Highlands has been completed.

Ten new one and two bedroom flats have been built in Carrbridge as part of a Highland Council project.

The properties, which are now ready for social rent, are on the site of the former Struan Hotel - Scotland's "first ski hotel".

Inverness-based Compass Building and Construction Services built the homes and the project was supported by funding from the Scottish government's More Homes Division.

Google The hotel has an almost gothic look to it. The property is derelict and has for sale signs on it and one over the boarded up entrance that reads: Struan House Hotel.Google
The hotel closed in 2006 and was later damaged by vandals

Highland Council convener Bill Lobban said Badenoch and Strathspey had been "crying out" for affordable properties.

He said the Scottish government's funding had helped the local authority to deliver low-cost homes, and had supported the construction industry.

The Struan Hotel played a part in the early days of making the Cairngorms a winter sports destination.

The hotel closed in 2006 and over the years fell derelict and was vandalised.

There had been previous unsuccessful attempts to turn the Main Street hotel into homes.

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