Church Street

This development - designed to fulfil the criteria of the Inner Moray Firth Development Plan, the Inverness City Centre Development Brief and the Highland Historic Environment Strategy - would create 10 new, affordable high quality one-bedroom flats for mid-market rental and a coherent retail space.

The new residential and retail development was designed to play its part in building a better city centre, with more affordable rental accommodation and a more appropriate retail space, than the previous multi-level incarnation. The building will breath new life into what was formerly a neglected site with the purpose-built ground floor residential unit of more traditional proportions and design, more in-fitting with the historic Church Street streetscape.

ARK Estates is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our developments, implementing low carbon, energy saving technologies and materials, best construction practices and working with trusted suppliers to create buildings with extremely low embodied and operational carbon.

This eye-catching four-storey development, designed by Colin Armstrong Architects, replaced a previous much-altered building, providing much-needed affordable housing and purpose-built, retail space in Inverness city centre. Inverness Provost and Inverness Area Committee Chair, Cllr Helen Carmichael, commented the development will ‘enhance the city centre of Inverness’. Allan Maguire, Head of Development & Regeneration at Highland Council, said: ‘This is yet another great example of the public and private sectors working together to regenerate the city centre, stimulating the economic recovery of the city and providing new high-quality homes.’

This development introduced 10 affordable new high quality one-bedroom flats for mid-market rental into an increasingly pressurised local rental market. The commencement of work at 99 Church Street helped the Highland economy take further steps toward recovery post COVID, securing work for approximately 45 local tradesmen and numerous local supply chain companies.