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Orkney Islands Council has advised that there are currently unavoidable delays in a decisions being made on planning applications

The Council is significantly short staffed within some of the service teams who are routinely asked to comment on planning applications. Their advice on a planning applications is vital as it ensures certain public safety elements of developments – and therefore decisions can’t be made without their input.

Orkney Islands Council is appealing to the community to understand the full impact of wilful damage to leisure facilities, following damage to the football pitch at Bignold Park.

When is going to work just like being part of one big family? When you join the team at Eday Community School, that’s when!

OIC is warning drivers of lengthier delays from Wednesday 12 July through Finstown as roadworks return to Evie junction as part of wider works on the A965.

A summing up of road works underway or soon to start in the county:

The search is on again for eight people from South Ronaldsay and Burray to represent their linked south isles communities by standing for election as Community Councillors.

Community Councillors are to be elected for the South Ronaldsay & Burray Community Council.  The number of members required, are as follows:

Orkney has farewelled Scotland’s MSYPs who met at KGS earlier this week (2 and 3 July) for a formal sitting of the Scottish Youth Parliament - as nominations remain open for young people to stand in the next SYP election.

North Ronaldsay put on a breath-taking sunset display recently, during a special guided walk showcasing the island’s Dark Skies status - part of a series of events supported by the North Isles Landscape Partnership Scheme.

With show season soon to start, Orkney Islands Council is reminding the local community that while the UK wide Avian Influenza Prevention Zone has been lifted today ( 4 July), poultry shows and gatherings remain banned.