Scotland receives £2 million timber transport boost
Five new projects which will reduce the impacts of timber transport on communities and improve the transport infrastructure are being funded by Scottish Forestry. £900,000 has been allocated to the projects which include upgrades to existing fragile rural roads, creating passing places or building new in-forest routes to take timber traffic away from people’s homes. […]
Roads in Highlands to get upgrades via Scottish Government’s Strategic Timber Transport Fund
Roads in the Highlands will receive improvements as the Scottish Government invests £2.2 million to help improve the transport of timber. The money, which will go to Highland Council and a private project at Gorteneorn, is co-financed and drawn from the Strategic Timber Transport Fund which is managed by Scottish Forestry. The funding goes mostly […]