Given this context, Highland Council were very concerned that the metrics used, for the Community Renewal Fund (not classed as a priority) and the Levelling Up Fund (graded at the lowest level 3) did not take into account the circumstances of Highland such as: • The sub regional variations of such as large area (differences between inner Moray Firth and wider Highlands, • issues around rurality, peripherality and natural constraints, • population decline and outward migration, • lack of connectivity both physical and digital; and • higher costs of living...