Today we broke ground on Phase Two of the business.
The digger came in, the fence came down and a new access into the field was created along with a good portion of the new track which will eventually allow the formation of the huts site! Whilst it isn’t the first works on this project (that being the passing place that went in last autumn) it is the first part on the site itself! This is all quite exciting as it means that we are slowly inching towards being open and allowing the development of the workshops
We have quite some way to go and the site is probably going to be chipped away at over several weeks or more so that once the huts are ordered and built they are able to be dropped straight into their final positions and hooked up. This marks the start of the first part of that puzzle though as once the road is in and the field drainage sorted out we can determine final positions of everything, work on the foul drainage and fresh water supply, get electricity ordered from SSEN and actually order the first pair of huts!
We popped in to see the hut builders yesterday since we were passing and they are developing a double hut which sounds very interesting and may be something that we look to for Hut 4! There are two reasons for going XXL - firstly it would allow us to provide a family size hut rather than just couple size units, and secondly it would allow enough space to put in accessible features which would make this unit dual purpose as a family and disabled friendly accommodation unit. Once all the huts are in then we get to focus on the structures up top and the nice add-ons that we are considering (hot tubs, saunas, plunge pools etc) to make the site ever more special!
It really is a 5 year plan with potential additional development beyond that time frame just now as we strive to make something really special here in the Highlands!
