Main Issues Report Supporting Information

Monitoring Report

An early task in the preparation of the Aberdeenshire Local Development Plan was to produce a monitoring report, which identifies: changes in the principal physical, economic, social and environmental characteristics of the area; and the impact of the policies and proposals on the existing plan. This report will help to inform the new plan, justify the new plan's content and provide a baseline for later monitoring.

The report is divided into two parts:

• The first part deals with the overall performance of the current plan against core strategic land use and locational objectives that applied to that plan.
• The second part looks at the performance of particular policy areas in order to identify where significant change may be required.

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• Main Issues Report Monitoring Statement (pdf 80kb)
• Main Issues Report Monitoring Annex (pdf 4.98mb)
• Appendix B-E of MIR Monitoring Statement (pdf 1.97mb)

Development Proposals

Landowners and developers were invited to submit proposals for development that they would wish to be considered in the Main Issues Report, with a view to taking them forward over the next 12 to 15 years through the next plan.  This provided a range of options for development to include in the Main Issues Report. The Planning Team undertook an assessment of all the proposals, and this helped to come to a professional opinion about which sites are the most suitable to accommodate future growth.