Grantown-on-Spey is in the Cairngorms National Park

A planning application to build 228 houses on a site behind the town's hospital has been lodged with Highland Council by Muir Homes.

The developer intends to make 57 houses available as affordable housing.

The application comes as the park authority consults on a draft plan on housing - including residency restrictions on new home buyers.

A spokesman for Muir Homes said the houses will be three and four bedroom semi and detached homes.

On Monday, it emerged Highland Council planners had criticised the park authority's plan to limit new homes to those who have been a resident there for at least three years, or work there.

A suggestion that planning permission would be needed for a house to become a holiday home could also be damaging, according to the officials' report.