Aberdeenshire Council

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.

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

Aberdeenshire Council is to move to a choice-based lettings approach next year which it said potential tenants greater choice over the type of property they wish to secure. The new process was agreed as the council’s communities committee approved an updated housing allocations policy earlier

Aberdeenshire Council continues to deliver many services to a good standard but needs to be clearer about what it wants to achieve and increase its focus on deprived neighbourhoods, according to the Accounts Commission. In a report published today, the watchdog said council officers and councillors

Aberdeenshire Council has submitted plans to build more than a dozen affordable homes at the site of a former council depot in Huntly. 

The progress being made to deliver Aberdeenshire Council’s five-year local housing strategy has been outlined to councillors. An annual report on the strategy, which began in 2018 and runs until 2023, was considered by the communities committee at its meeting on Thursday last week.

A new approach to the way council properties are prepared for new tenants could significantly reduce the time taken for homes to be re-let in Aberdeenshire. At its meeting last week, Aberdeenshire Council’s communities committee agreed a new ‘lettable standard’ which changes respon

Muir Homes has won a £2.7 million contract to build 20 new council homes in Peterhead. The Fife-based developer will deliver the next phase of its Sovereign Gate project on behalf of Aberdeenshire Council.

CALA Homes (North) and Meldrum House Estate have been granted permission to create a collection of homes within the grounds of the hotel and golf club. Aberdeenshire Council has given the go-ahead for the development of 36 new homes, adding to the previously approved redevel

Barratt North Scotland is seeking repayment of almost half-a-million pounds worth of education contributions made to Aberdeenshire Council because a village’s primary school is under capacity.

Aberdeenshire Council has revealed plans to build 12 new affordable homes at Kinbroom in Rothienorman.

The Housing First Scotland Pathfinder programme launched officially in April 2019 in Aberdeen/shire, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling. This was following a ramping-up period that began in August 2018, exactly two years ago this week, when the first tenants moved into properties in Glasgow all

A development plan which sets the strategic framework for investment in jobs, homes and infrastructure across Aberdeen City and Shire over the next 20 years has been approved by Scottish Ministers.

CHAP Group has been appointed to carry out several major projects after securing contracts worth in excess of £11.5 million.

Aberdeenshire Council is seeking views on its updated Housing Allocation Policy ahead of its finalisation. The review of the document has been overseen by a working group of tenants and council officers and takes account of feedback gathered last year from tenants and those on the waiting list.