Hot Desk Clients

Hot Desk Clients

Renewables @ No.10

10 Sinclair Street, Thurso

Caithness KW14 7AJ

Telephone 01847 500100

Email business@caithnessrenewables.uk

www.fairhurst.co.uk

Fairhurst is one of the largest engineering consultancy partnerships in the UK and have been providing high quality services to our clients for over 100 years. Over time the business has evolved from a civil and structural design practice to a modern client-focused multidisciplinary consultancy which includes geo-environmental, traffic and transportation, rail and planning. Fairhurst operates from a network of 17 offices covering the whole of the UK, with the office at 10 Sinclair Street, Thurso, being the most northerly. The Thurso office is managed by Andrew Mennie.

Westswell Ltd

Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald took up residence in Caithness with his partner Bel at the end of November 2015. He is keen to continue with lifestyle choices that take him away from his home in Australia. His work for an Australian insurance business is in computer programming which can easily be carried out in a hot desk environment

Inksters

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Craft from the Croft Caithness is a countywide sewing group that demonstrates sewing techniques and the use of sewing machines and related equipment. The group has eight sewing machines that can be borrowed by other group.

The Camster Peatland Regeneration SCIO has leased a 400 ha moorland site in the Flow Country. Camster Peatland Regeneration is located mid county in Caithness in the Far North of Scotland. The blanket bog which is being restored includes 50ha of hard ground, a grassy oasis in a sea of moss. Camster Peatland Regeneration is located mid county in Caithness in the Far North of Scotland. The blanket bog which is being restored includes 50ha of hard ground, a grassy oasis in a sea of moss.

The leased land includes potential recreation and education facilities for community use, enhancing the area. We will consult with the community about walking on this land. The land can educate people about the history, art, heritage and culture of the people that used to live at Camster.

Off an unclassified single-track road running between the villages of Lybster and Watten, adjacent to the Grey Cairns of Camster, the land has seen many uses: sheep farm, grouse moor, mono-culture forestry, home to families and wind turbines alike. The land has been de-forested, mined, ploughed, drained, over-grazed, reforested and exploited over the millennia. Now is the time for the land to fight back.

A change of ownership brings new thinking to the area; alongside peatland restoration, tree planting and path building will open up the land for recreational use. This net zero, environmental and educational project removes 50 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere every year. Green features include the millefiori tapestry of sphagnum mosses and starmosses.

130ha of the 400 ha has already been subjected to a £150k peatland restoration project, part of Peatland ACTION, fully funded by Scottish Government. This part of the Flow Country land is included in the recent successful bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The Camster Peatland Regeneration SCIO has plans to restore a further 220ha with another 40ha having improved public access, providing socio economic and job opportunities. The scheme includes a network of disabled access paths and bridleways linking several archaeological sites, including brochs, a cemetery, grave-watcher’s hut and stells as well as viewpoints. Open to the public, paths take in areas of birch, alder, willow and blueberry. Interpretative panels will describe what Caithness was like in neolithic times moving through the differing eras to present day.

Paths for the planned walks will be mown by a quad pulled rotary mower, linking several archaeological sites, including brochs, a cemetery, grave-watcher’s hut and stells as well as viewpoints.

Creative thinking during two workshops will be influenced by moods, weather and the seasons, helping participants formulate imagery to be included on the interpretive panels. The panels will be placed at the features listed above. These panels will be developed (content and artistic form) in public workshops lead by a creative person. Output can also be fed into the plans for sculptures.