Our Strathglass.
What next?
We live in a wonderful place, but it’s not without its challenges.
What should our priorities be for the future?
That’s the question everyone in the Strathglass Community Council area is being asked in Spring-Summer 2026.
Transport, community, public services, jobs, housing, nature, climate change, renewables infrastructure, or other things…
Your priorities will be the foundation of a new Plan for our community’s future - our Plan - which will be ready by Autumn 2026.
The Strathglass Plan will influence public services, guide how community benefit money & other funding is spent, and shape future change.
Read on to find out more…
Your place, your plan
Local community organisations have come together to help the local community to create a Strathglass Plan for our shared future.
What should go into the Plan is up to the local community - you, your family, friends and neighbours.
During the course of 2026, working together, we will prepare a new community-led plan for Strathglass. Nobody knows what will be in the Plan yet. The priorities it tackles will be the local community’s priorities, shaped by you. It’s an exciting opportunity to shape our community how we want.
You can find out more about community-led planning and see examples of how it has helped other communities on the About page.
The Plan will be prepared in three stages:
Ideas and aspirations: During Spring 2026, we’re reaching out as widely as we can to give everyone the opportunity to contribute. What do you like about your community? What could be better? The first steps included asking every resident to fill in a short survey, discussions with schools, community groups and businesses, and a community event on 29 March with music and a free lunch (really!).
Actions: later in Spring, we’ll share all the results from stage 1 and organise community conversations to explore what to do about the priorities that emerge from the first stage of work. More details about these events will follow.
Plan: in the Summer, everything will come together in an overall Plan - first a draft for you to check, and then a final version for Highland Council to register as our Local Place Plan.
Then comes the exciting work of making it happen!
Starting point: community survey
The Plan will be built from suggestions from everyone in the community. So it’s important that everyone has their say!
During March and April 2026, surveys were delivered to every household in Strathglass and made available online. A dedicated community event was held, and visits to local schools to engage young people.
The survey closed in late April with over 150 responses (approximately a third of the population).
We’re currently collating and analysing all the responses, and will publish them in June here on this website. That’s really important for transparency, and will enable everyone to make informed decisions about what the plan should focus on.
Any questions? Get in touch with the independent planner/facilitator who is supporting the work, Nick Wright. His contact details are at the bottom of the page.
Cannich Spring Session
Around 70 folk came along to a special Cannich Spring Session on Sunday 29th March to enjoy tasty soup and cake, live music and plenty of creative chat about the future of the community!
It was an opportunity to help people complete the survey and find out more about the plan, and enjoy chatting with other residents about the future of the community. With a giant map for ideas, using local photos old and new to make collages, model-making with plasticine, or sharing your greatest fear for the future… there was something for everyone!
In June, we’ll publish a write-up of everyone’s comments from the event, together with responses to the survey and young people’s ideas from sessions in local schools. Sign up to the e-bulletin below to be kept updated.
Any questions? Get in touch with the independent planner/facilitator who is supporting the work, Nick Wright. His contact details are at the bottom of the page.
Voices of the future
Our young people are our future. What are their aspirations for the local community?
During Spring 2026, local pupils in our catchment schools have had the opportunity to say what they would like their local community to be like in the future. We used a big map to get them thinking and gather their ideas.
All of their comments are transcribed on the accompany maps for Cannich, Struy and Tomich. The maps also contain comments made by adults at the comment event in late March from the public event, colour-coded to differentiate them. A fuller report of the March event will be posted here in June.
Click on the thumbnails below to move between maps. Click on the big map to download a higher resolution version.
