After legal win, Tomatin Trading Company begins £12 million development

The Tomatin Trading Company is pressing ahead with its £12m retail and leisure development at the Tomatin junction on the A9.The venture, which it claims will create hundreds of new jobs and increased footfall both directly and indirectly for the village of Tomatin and its surrounding area, can now use the name, following a legal victory over Tomatin Distillery, which had objected to the use of the name Tomatin.Consisting of a 99 bedroom hotel, 200 seater restaurant, four retail units, a petrol station and farm shop, the development plans to showcase local food and drink suppliers.The site, which previously housed a hotel, and latterly a café and filling station, has lain unused for well over a decade.The hotel will be created using a modular build technique, while contractors already appointed include Blyth & Blyth Engineers, Norr Architects of Inverness, and Thomson Bethune as surveyors and project managers.Simon Bath, formerly of the Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle, is to be general manager of The Tomatin Trading Company.“Even before Covid-19, the industry was seeing a customer with a far more discerning taste, looking for a destination which gives a food and drink offering second to none, furthermore this customer wanted the highest quality retail experience, drawing on both local and national brands, coupled with the finest service a hotel can offer,” he commented.