Solar panels for roof of historic church in Grantown

Solar panels are to be installed on the roof of Inverallan Parish Church

Highland councillors have approved plans for solar panels to be installed on the roof of a 19th Century church in Grantown-on-Spey.

The congregation at the Church of Scotland's Inverallan Parish Church put forward the proposals to help meet what it described as the building's "huge" heating costs.

Planning officials had recommended that councillors refuse the application due to concerns the panels would have an adverse impact on the historic building.

But Highland Council's south planning committee voted unanimously in favour after hearing that photovoltaic panels were installed on other historic buildings, including at King's College in Cambridge.