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End of Term Highlights

2022

Boost for local groups

We signed over the former Herring Factory building in Stromness to three local groups - Orkney Men’s Shed, Stromness Drama Club and the Orkney Historic Boat Society - and the Stromness Squash Courts to the Orkney Weightlifting Club . ‘The Smithy’ on Shapinsay will receive a new lease of life, after the Council agreed to sell the property to the Shapinsay Development Trust.

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Happy Campers

Ness Point campsite in Stromness is undergoing improvement work - we were awarded £260k from the Scottish Government’s Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund to upgrade the amenities, and install more hard standing pitches, solar and ground source energy systems and improved chemical waste disposal.

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Community Facilities

Construction of the St Andrews Primary School extension continues -  building work started in March 2021.   Work is also continuing on plans for a new £14m care home and a new childcare facility in Kirkwall- with works due to get underway this year.

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