Aberdeenshire

Restoration work is being carried out around the striking pyramid cairn erected by Queen Victoria in memory of Prince Albert on the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire.

A dedicated hub for community engagement, education, and information sharing tied to the project to run a 505km 2GW subsea cable from Aberdeenshire to Yorkshire has officially opened in Peterhead. The Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is the UK’s biggest ever electricity transmission project, design

A council-led scheme to help owners of empty properties throughout Aberdeenshire bring them back into use and reach potential buyers is seeking to make matches. Aberdeenshire Council’s Matchmaker project allows owners of empty properties to list them for free with the council then able to shar

Cala Homes (North) visited Banchory Primary School to talk to children about the homebuilding industry and educate them about the dangers of playing in and around construction sites. Primary seven classes enjoyed the interactive ‘Stay Safe, Stay Away’ session, which covered the history o

SSEN Transmission has submitted a Section 37 consent application to Scottish Ministers for the proposed 400kV overhead line project between Beauly, near Inverness and Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.

Senior Aberdeenshire councillors have visited Persimmon Homes’ Strabathie Shores development in Blackdog, where the housebuilder is delivering its first new homes in the area for several years. Council co-leader Cllr Anne Stirling and vice chair of the Communities Committee Cllr Sarah Brown me

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has awarded Birse Community Trust grant funding to conserve and reopen The Souter’s Shop in Birse, a purpose-built shoemaker’s shop left largely untouched for over half a century and the only surviving example of its kind.

OakNorth Bank has provided a £17 million loan to support the next phase of development at Ury Estate in Aberdeenshire. The funding will deliver 18 homes at Jack Nicklaus Village and a further 71 much-needed family homes at Glen Ury View, marking a major step in the transformation of the histor

Buchan Offshore Wind has submitted an onshore planning application to Aberdeenshire Council for the onshore infrastructure required to connect its multi-billion-pound energy project to the electricity grid. Buchan Offshore Wind is the developer of a floating offshore wind farm 75 km northeast of Fra

Planning consent has been granted for SSEN Transmission’s Greens 400kV substation project near New Deer in Aberdeenshire.

Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course has breached sewage contamination limits 14 times since 2019, according to documents released by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa). The 36-hole resort, one of two owned by the former US president in Scotland, relies on a private sewage s

Balfour Beatty has today been awarded the initial works of the Netherton Hub project by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission’s (SSEN) multi-billion-pound Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) Offshore Framework.

New images have been unveiled showing how the replacement for Peterhead Academy could look, following major changes to the long-discussed community campus project. Councillors first approved plans for a £71 million community campus in 2018, which was to bring together a new Peterhead Academy,

Persimmon North Scotland has been given the go-ahead by Aberdeenshire Council to build 140 high-quality new homes in Newmachar.

SSEN Transmission has started the process of notifying key stakeholders of its intention to submit its Section 37 overhead line consent application by 5 September for the proposed 400kV overhead line project between Kintore in Aberdeenshire and Tealing in Angus.