The Highlands could see one of the biggest transfers in Scotland

A proposed stock transfer of 14,500 Highland Council homes has been given approval in principle by Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm.

Hast chairman Donnie Kerr said he hoped the website would give balance to the transfer debate.

Council tenants will be sent details of the proposal to transfer stock to the Highland Housing Association shortly.

Tenants will later be invited to vote on it by secret postal ballot.

Mr Kerr said: "We don't have the resources of the pro-transfer machine nor have we received large amounts of public funding like the pro-transfer campaign, so the website is one of our most accessible sources of information."

Mr Chisholm has said if the transfer goes ahead Highland Council's housing debt of about �160m would be written off.