Locate in Nairn: Nairn,Scotland - Nairn and Nairnshire

Locate In Nairn

Nairn is an ideal place to build a new venture or expand an existing business. It offers a unique quality of life and blends an enterprising and low cost business environment with modern communications, a huge range of recreational opportunities, urban services and rural charm.

The town occupies a commanding position at the centre of the Moray Firth area which has a population of over 200,000. Its immediate area has around 5,000 people of working age with a sound education and generally high skill levels in office and manufacturing employment.

Accommodation for business is readily available, or can be developed, on sites such as Balmakeith Business Park and Balmakeith Industrial Estate on the eastern fringe of the town. A new business park is planned for Sandown, on the western outskirts.

For advice on locating your business to Nairn, contact Scottish Development International at www.sdi.co.uk/Invest or visit the Highlands & Islands Enterprise dedicated business support website www.hiebusiness.co.uk

Traditional and modern housing is available at affordable prices and Nairn has the range of services and local trades to be expected in a town of its size. These include a hospital, swimming pool, leisure park, sports club and a series of professional business services.

Local schools mirror the traditional excellence of Scottish education. Nairn Academy - drawing pupils from Rosebank and Millbank Primary Schools in the town, and the rural primaries of Auldearn and Cawdor - achieves above average performance in the number of pupils gaining Higher Grades. Moray College, Nairn Campus - photograph by David B Pirnie

Moray College, Nairn Campus - photograph by David B Pirnie

Inverness College, one of the largest partners in the University of the Highlands and Islands Millennium Institute, offers comprehensive further education, including degree courses. Moray College Learning Centre in Nairn offers non-advanced further education opportunities, predominantly in Information Technology.

For further information about Education, Estate Agents, Employment Agencies, Dental Surgeons and Doctors Medical Practitioners in Nairn search the Directory. To view Nairns location see the Maps. Alternatively if you would like personal advice from a locally based advisor why not visit Location Highland.

CONVENER WELCOMES CONSULTATION ON BYPASS

Highland Council Convener Cllr Sandy Park is urging the Nairn public to turn out in numbers for next week's public consulation in the Courthouse on Nairn's long awaited bypass.

SCHOOL ENROLEMENTS TAKING PLACE THIS WEEK

Parents and guardians of children are being informed by the Highland Council that it is time for enrolment into pre-school and primary school in the Highlands.

LUCY WILL BE THERE TO CAPTURE ALL THE CUP DRAMA

The countdown has started with a vengeance towards the June 8-10 staging of the 37th Curtis Cup encounter at the Nairn Golf Club - a biennial, eight-a-side three-day match between the best female amateur golfers in Great Britain and Ireland and their counterparts from the United States.