LOCHABER’S senior councillor has moved to quell fears over a possible large hike in rents for garages in Fort William.
Andrew Baxter, who represents Fort William and Ardnamurchan and is chairman of Highland Council’s Lochaber Area Committee, spoke to the Lochaber Times after it was contacted by several irate local residents complaining about what they claimed was an unfair planned rise in the rents of garages or for the council sites on which their garages had been built.
Sammy Cameron, from Caol, recently showed the Lochaber Times the letter he received in November from Highland Council, which explained that at the local authority’s community services committee in February last year, councillors had requested a review of garage rents with a view to increasing income from them.