Antonia Quashie

Preserve – Produce – Provide // Inverness

The project delivers an alternative approach to the Highland Council’s Inverness East Development Plan by aiming to preserve peat land and oysters, and provide employment related mostly to coastal management. Located on the site will also be a food market and a community centre for the local residents to enjoy. The council’s development plan on the other hand is to completely industrialise and commercialise the east coast of Inverness which the locals are protesting against.

By procuring this project instead, Inverness is able to still utilise their east coast for economic purposes without destroying the biodiversity, but rather increasing it. This shall be achieved by extending the woodland, creating salt marshes and saltwater pools for oysters to inhabit. In managing the population of the oysters some shall be harvested and sold at the market. The project’s environmentally considerate scheme capitalises on the region’s natural wealth. Moreover, it provides local employment opportunities within blue and green industries for displaced oil rig workers to transition into.