Publications

Each year we produce a Development Plan Scheme to set out our programme of work for preparing and reviewing Local Development Plans (LDPs). This is a legal requirement as per the Planning etc....

A list of people interested in acquiring land in Aberdeenshire for self-build housing.

This charter provides information about the standards of service that should be met with regards to Building Standards. This gives customers the reassurance that a consistent, high quality service will...

View Building Standards annual performance report.

In the course of preparing the Proposed Local Development Plan we have to take account of submissions made to the Main Issues Report (MIR) documents. Each issue identified was collected...

The Proposed Local Development Plan is supported by the documents listed on this page.

Find out more about what the Planning Information and Delivery Team does, how it does it, and how it delivers and contributes towards Scottish Government and Aberdeenshire Council priorities and...

The employment land prospectus, identifies longer-term available employment land sites across Aberdeenshire. You can see sites on a map, including geo-spatial information. There are more details further into the document, organised...

The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 introduced Masterplan Consent Areas (MCAs) as an upfront consenting mechanism, to let planning authorities consent to the type and quality of development they wish to...

The main focus of the housing site prospectus is sites allocated for housing, though some mixed allocations have been included. The sites are divided up into four different categories, from...