Highland Council to fight legal ruling on Academy Street revamp

Traffic would be restricted to buses, delivery vehicles and drivers with disabilities and health conditions.

But in a legal challenge brought to the Court of Session, trustees of the owners of Eastgate Centre argued that a proper consultation was not held on the plans.

In a judgement earlier this month Lord Sandison upheld the challenge. but said Highland Council did not have a “subjective intention” to run an unfair consultation exercise.

He said it may only have been with the benefit of hindsight that it was possible to see where and how it went “awry”.

On Thursday, the local authority issued a statement saying: “Highland Council is lodging an appeal against the judgement in relation to the judicial review that was raised challenging the council’s intention to promote changes to traffic arrangements in Academy Street.”