This week, we look at how a proposal to transform an unused facility on Longman Road into a fuel storage depot could help ease traffic on the A9. SUBMITTED: New Inverness fuel depot could take lorries off the A9Spanish firm Exolum, an international logistics company which supplies fuel for approximately 40% of flights departing from the UK, is proposing to create a fuel depot at a large site they own on Longman Road – around a mile from the Port of Inverness. LATEST: Demolition of guest house to make way for Inverness hotel expansion raises concernsObjections have been raised about the expansion plans of an Inverness hotel involving the demolition of a nearby guest house. “This means its presence will have a significant impact on blocking any urban landscape behind the proposed hotel and change the skyline for good.” Meanwhile, two neighbours have objected over “concerns over the height and scale of the proposed development.”