Plans submitted for major expansion of Portree to address lack of affordable homes

An application for planning in principle has been submitted for the expansion of Portree, the principal settlement of the Isle of Skye, to address the long-term shortage of affordable housing on the island.Rural Design has prepared a masterplan for 250 new homes on behalf of Lochalsh & Skye Housing Association to extend the northern outskirts of the settlement at Kiltaraglen over the next two decades.A landscape strategy by Raeburn Farquhar Bowen will create a series of neighbourhoods linked by off-road paths and cycleways are planned for the phased build, which will retain stone dykes and tributaries around clusters of new homes, Urban Realm reports.