Community and Highland 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.

Unless otherwise stated this information is consistent between Highland Council's website and individual community council websites, and is believed to be correct at July 2021.

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.as

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  
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                                      (unavailable at 08/21)
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)  Mike Atkinson                   )HC differs (out of date?)
Clerk               Jo Ellen                           )
Treasurer        Stephen Mackenzie           )                        

Dingwall        https://www.facebook.com/DingwallCC/     
                      mail@dingwallcc.com 
                      shepherdjw@hotmail.co.uk 
Chair              Jack Shepherd                  )HC only - no cc website
Secretary        Agnes Simpson                )
Treasurer        Robert Moore                   )

Maryburgh    https://www.facebook.com/gulchCC/                       maryburghcc@gmail.com                                                                    contact@maryburghhub.info 
Chair              Donald Stuart                  )HC only - no cc website
Secretary        Fiona shand                    )
Treasurer        Fiona Ross                      )
 

Aird and Loch Ness ward

Beauly           http://www.beaulycc.org/ 
                      https://www.facebook.com/groups/BeaulyOnline                                 info@beaulycc.org
Vice Chair       Roy Harrison
Secretary        David Taylor
Treasurer        Seona Fraser

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

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Highland Councillors

All Highland Councillors by ward

Number of Councillors by party

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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