At the start of July (2024), we handed over our Campbell Close development in Golspie to the Highland Council, marking their first new-build social housing project in the Highland seaside village in 30 years. The development has been named in memory of Hamish Campbell and Campbell Port, who were described by the local authority as two 'prominent and dearly missed' members of the Golspie community.

The development features 20 new homes, constructed in seven separate blocks, including two, three, and four-bedroom villas, two-bedroom cottages, and one-bedroom cottage flats. The works were divided between two sites in Golspie: six blocks comprising 17 housing units are located on the South Argo Terrace site, and one block comprising three housing units is situated on the Main Street site adjacent to the Seaforth House resource hub.

Construction included blockwork external walls on the ground floor, timber intermediate floors (concrete intermediate floor for cottage flats), and timber frame construction on the first floor, with a mixture of render and timber-effect cladding board finishes on external walls, and tiled roofs. Full plumbing, heating (air source heat pumps), electrical installations, fire sprinkler installations, partial floor finishes, and painting work were completed.

Infrastructure works to accommodate the housing units included foul and surface water drainage installations, water, electricity, telephone, and external lighting services, car parking, footpaths, fencing, and soft landscaping.

Rhona, Managing Director of Capstone Constructions, commented: "We were delighted to share the event with Highland Council's retired development manager John McHardy, who, before his retirement, worked in partnership with the community council to ensure this development went ahead. The whole team at Capstone is thrilled to have been involved in the project and hopes these homes will greatly benefit the local community."