09-07-2025
Fish firm to provide housing in Scalpay due to lack of homes
A salmon farm company is to provide housing for its workers at a site in Scalpay due to a lack of available accommodation on the Scotland (BFS) has been granted planning permission for 14 temporary units and welfare facilities at Cuddy told Western Isles local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, a lack of homes had created difficulties for the company in recruiting and retaining units are to be made available to workers across BFS' Isle of Harris operations.
The comhairle said that while the proposal to site the temporary accommodation in a compound was "not ideal," it had been justified in terms of the identified employs more than 400 people across about 45 sites on Scotland's west by local democracy journalist Peter Urpeth.
