Aberdeenshire

Nine local projects aimed at improving communities and places across Aberdeenshire are to share around £1.9 million in new funding to help improve local facilities and town centres and to support regeneration activity. This funding is coming from the second-year allocation of the Scottish Gove

Newcastle-based property firm Eastwynn has withdrawn its application to Aberdeenshire Council to convert the former Macduff social club into flats.

Cala Homes (North) has submitted a planning application to Aberdeenshire Council for 50 new homes on the western edge of Westhill at Burnland.

Facilities management services provider Richard Irvin FM (RIFM) has won a series of new contracts in Scotland and the North of England.

Aberdeenshire councillors have approved proposals to build Scotland's largest solar farm on a 260-acre site near St Fergus. The 50 megawatt project led by Irish-based Elgin Energy would be the biggest ever built in Scotland, and one of the largest solar projects in the whole of the UK. Over its life

The former Lythe Care Home in Cullen could be converted into service accommodation for wind farm workers under new plans.

Housebuilder Claymore Homes has submitted plans to Aberdeenshire Council to build 800 homes, a new primary school and community facilities at South Ugie.

Plans have been lodged for Scotland’s first power station equipped with a carbon capture plant to remove CO2 from its emissions.

Applications to redevelop and extend Inverurie Town Hall for use as a new council office have been withdrawn to allow for further development of the proposals.

Planning permission has been granted for the development of a council office, public library and family centre at the former academy site at Schoolhill in Ellon.

Ahead of the appointment of the team who will design the Peterhead Community Campus, the architects selected to lead the development of the design recently visited Peterhead.

Aberdeenshire Council's plans to develop 16 flats on the site of an old Fraserburgh school have been given the green light.

Failings by Network Rail and collapsed outsourcing giant Carillion were to blame for the 2020 Stonehaven rail crash which killed three people, an investigation has found.

Aberdeenshire Council has set its revenue, capital and carbon budgets for council services, with a focus on getting best value for money. The revenue budget was set at £660 million, while the capital budget over the next 15 years was set at £1.157 billion. Reserves were set at £75m

Colaren Homes has been granted planning permission to add a further 130 homes at its Kirkton Heights development in Fraserburgh. The developer was granted planning permission for the first 120 homes at the Boothby Road site in 2016, where it ultimately plans to deliver 600 properties with a new