Aberdeenshire

Extensive work in early years childcare settings, the Peterhead Community Campus as well as investment in digital services, roads, and bridges are to benefit from funding as part of the 2021/22 budget set by Aberdeenshire Council. Council members agreed to set the revenue budgets at £

A public realm improvement scheme which aims to reinvigorate Bridge Street in Banff has taken another step forward with the appointment of a main contractor. Hunter Construction (Aberdeen) Ltd will undertake the ambitious works which are expected to commence in April.

Councillors have approved plans for 37 new homes to be built in the Aberdeenshire town of Oldmeldrum, with land to be set aside for 12 affordable homes as part of the application.

Plans to enhance and improve the village greens and wayfinding in the centre of Ballater have been lodged with Aberdeenshire Council. The planning application, submitted by Moxon Architects and Ballater Royal Deeside Ltd, follows the Storm Frank floods in 2015, which led to serious damage in the vil

Plans to build 284 new homes on the border between Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council. Kirkwood Homes will progress the project at Blackdog, just southeast of the Aberdeen bypass roundabout that links to the A92.

Aberdeenshire Council’s infrastructure services committee has decided on a number of planning applications involving new homes across the region. The committee approved a delegated grant for the council’s own application for the erection of 12 affordable houses and flats to the south of

Plans to convert Lairhillock Lodge near Stonehaven into two three-bedroom and three four-bedroom homes have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council. The former guest house has been closed for almost a year after it fell victim to the oil downturn in the North East.

Plans by brewery giant BrewDog to create new environmentally-friendly infrastructure at its Ellon headquarters have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council. An application was submitted last year for an anaerobic digestion plant, water treatment plant, Co2 recovery plant and associated energy ge

The £5.8 million Fraserburgh 2021 regeneration scheme has entered its final year with plans to renovate Anderson House and create 26 new homes taking centre stage. The programme has already facilitated the revamp of Saltoun Square’s Faithlie Centre and work is ongoing on the creation of

Aberdeenshire Council has appointed its head of finance Alan Wood to the interim position of director of infrastructure services. Mr Wood takes up the role with immediate effect following the retirement of Stephen Archer in December.

The rail line between Montrose and Stonehaven will be closed for at least a week after a bridge wall collapsed near the scene of last year's fatal train crash.

Aberdeenshire Council has awarded a £1.3 million construction phase contract for repairs to the Banff Railway Jetty and East Pier.

Homebuilder Bancon Homes has obtained planning approval for the second phase of new homes to be built at its Lochside of Leys development in Banchory.

More than 30 new properties are being made available for social rent in Stonehaven and Laurencekirk following the completion of two new developments. In Stonehaven, four existing properties that were used as Aberdeenshire Council education offices at Cameron Street have been converted to form eight

Plans to build 40 affordable homes at the site of the old Ellon Academy have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council’s Formartine area committee. The plans were given approval on the proviso road safety concerns be addressed.