Community Councils

Community Council contacts

After community council elections take place Highland Council collects and publishes on its website contact information for Highland community councils, including the names of office-holders.  This process has now been completed, and contact information and office-holders for all the Black Isle and adjoining community councils, is shown below.

This information is consistent between Highland Council's website and individual community council websites and is believed to be correct at October 2020.  (updated for Cromarty interim election).

Black Isle ward 

Avoch and Killen
email               avochandkillencommunitycouncil@gmail.com
website
http://community-council.org.uk/AvochandKillenCommunityCouncil/index.asp
map
Chair               Helen Baillot
Secretary        Nicola Underdown
Treasurer        Sarah MacDonald-Taylor

Cromarty                
email               cromartydistrictcc@gmail.com
website            http://www.cromartylive.co.uk/commmunitycouncil.asp                     map
Chair              Paige Shepherd
Secretary        Peter Ratcliffe
Treasurer        Alan Plampton

Ferintosh                  
email               ferintoshcc30@gmail.com
website            http://ferintoshcc.co.uk/
map
Chair              Karen Harcus
Secretary        Bruce Morrison
Treasurer        Alison Lowe

Fortrose & Rosemarkie  
email               fortroseandrosemarkie@gmail.com
website            http://www.fortrosemarkie.org/
map
Chair               Anne Phillips  
Secretary        Leanne Mackenzie
Treasurer        Susan Pringle 

Killearnan       
email               killearnanccouncil2@gmail.com
website
http://www.community-council.org.uk/killearnan/index.asp
map
Chair               Kenne Mackenzie
Secretary        Anne Mackay
Treasurer        Andrew Mackay

Knockbain                
email               info@knockbain.org 
website            http://www.knockbain.org
map
Chair               John Stott
Secretary        Sylvia Bertram
Treasurer        Sue Lowe

Resolis                      
email               resoliscc@gmail.com                                                 website            http://www.community-council.org.uk/resolis                                    (out of date)
map
Chair               Alister Matheson
Secretary        Neil Cameron                          blank on website
Treasurer        Marion Campbell

Neighbouring councils

Dingwall and Seaforth ward

Conon Bridge           
email               cononcommunitycouncil@gmail.com
website            http://www.cononbridge.org.uk/index.asp                map
Chair               Fiona Mackintosh
Secretary        John Bruce
Treasurer        Hazel Bushell

Muir of Ord               
email               community.councillors@muiroford.org.uk                   website            https://muiroford.org.uk/category/community-council/
map
Chair (acting)  Frances MacGruer                
Secretary        Frances MacGruer
Treasurer        Margaret Jack                                                           

Dingwall        mail@dingwallcc.com 
                      shepherdjw@hotmail.co.uk 

Maryburgh    contact@maryburghhub.info    

Aird and Loch Ness ward

Beauly           info@beaulycc.org

The above information is also available as a downloadable doc file  and general information about community councils is  here .

Office-holder contacts for all Highland community councils are available at this HC page

https://www.highland.gov.uk/info/772/politicians_elections_and_democracy/364/community_councils

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Community Council Elections results December 2019

All Black Isle councils constituted - election in Ferintosh completed
 

Following the extension of the nomination period, all Black Isle and neighbouring councils secured enough nominations for a council to be constituted.  Four additional nominations were received in Ferintosh, leading to the unusual requirement for an election, which took place by postal ballot ending on 4 December.

In the Highlands as a whole, of the 156 community council areas, in 16 a council was not formed because of insufficient nominations, in 16 there were more nominations than the maximum number of seats on the council (this varies from 7 to 13 according to the size of the area), thus requiring an election, and all the remainder, with nominations below or at the maximum, were uncontested.

View the results (following the 4 December election for Ferintosh) for the 'Black Isle' councils below.  Note that community council boundaries do not correspond with electoral ward boundaries.  Of the community councils which might be regarded as belonging to the Black Isle, Beauly, Conon Bridge and Muir of Ord are wholly outside the Black Isle ward boundary (ward 9), as are parts of Ferintosh, Killearnan and Knockbain.

Maps of all the Black Isle community council areas, and of the Black Isle electoral ward boundary, can be found at  Resources / Document Library / Community Councils  Maps.

Results
Avoch and Killen
Beauly
Conon Bridge
Cromarty
Ferintosh
Fortrose and Rosemarkie
Killearnan
Knockbain
Muir of Ord
Resolis