Aberdeenshire

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.

Stewart Milne Homes has launched its first new development of private homes in Aberdeenshire for five years.

Grampian Housing Association chief operating officer Craig Stirrat has shared these images at the handover of new homes in Sandhaven.

Plans have been unveiled to construct a large-scale renewable energy park designed to deliver between 150 – 200 megawatts of green energy to supply to the Scottish grid, with the capacity to power tens of thousands of homes across the north-east of Scotland. It is estimated that 1500 jobs will

Dunfermline-based furniture and fit-out specialist Deanestor has delivered its largest-ever contract in the education sector. The £3 million project was for the manufacture of bespoke furniture and fit-out of the new £55m Inverurie Community Campus – one of the large

One section of a multi-million-pound flood protection scheme at Stonehaven is likely to face a significant delay - potentially to late 2022 or early 2023 - as a result of revisions to the design and construction phases in one area of the scheme known as Zone 1B from White Bridge to Bridgefield Bridg

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £47.5 million contract to design and build a new 400 kilovolt (kV) substation in Peterhead on behalf of SSEN Transmission.

Colaren Homes is to share its plans for the next phase of a 600-home development in Fraserburgh in an online consultation. The developer was granted planning permission for the first 120 homes at the Kirkton Heights development in 2016.

The latest stage in extensive recovery and reinstatement works following the Stonehaven train derailment has now begun.