AT their awards ceremony this afternoon, Beautiful Scotland awarded Stonehaven a Silver Gilt certificate for our entry in the Coastal Town category. And a special discretionary award was made to the recently renovated Burns Memorial Garden – which will now need a plaque celebrating it as the Beautiful Scotland winner 2021 of the Haddington 700 […]
From Aberdeenshire Council communications team – Stonehaven is one of nine town centres across Aberdeenshire benefiting from a ‘health check’ to assess their strengths, vitality and viability, weaknesses and resilience. Following the success of a pilot scheme in Inverurie earlier this summer, the town centres in Banchory, Banff, Ellon, Fraserburgh, Huntly, Peterhead, Stonehaven, Turriff and […]
From Aberdeenshire Council communications team – Aberdeenshire Council is encouraging every resident in the region to participate in a review of household recycling centres. The council is reviewing the protocols which are currently in place at its 15 sites including the booking system, the limit system for vans and trailers and the Automatic Number Plate […]
From the latest KDP bulletin – Meikle Carewe Wind Farm Community Fund – DEADLINEThe Meikle Carewe Wind Farm Community Fund is open until next Thursday, 30th September 2021.Applications to the fund can be made from not-for-profit groups and organisations, based in the following Community Council areas: Crathes, Drumoak and Durris Newtonhill, Muchalls and Cammachmore North Kincardine […]
From Nestrans – Public asked for feedback on travelling between Aberdeen and Laurencekirk A new survey has launched today (Monday 20 September) to study transport problems and opportunities between Aberdeen and Laurencekirk. Nestrans is looking to identify options that will encourage more people to travel in a sustainable way along the corridor; be it walking, […]
THAT is the question determining the future of Stonehaven’s schools our councillors will be asked to consider when the Kincardine and Mearns Area Committee meets tomorrow – and they have two options: both schools could relocate or only Dunnottar Primary. When Aberdeenshire Council announced its new budget in March this year, it made a commitment […]
From Aberdeenshire Council communications team – Councillors have welcomed a budgeting approach that is enabling the Stonehaven community to have their say and decide how £1.8million will be spent on sport and leisure locally. Members of the Communities Committee heard an update on the participatory budgeting process known as ‘Voice Your Choice’ at its latest […]
FINDING alternative accommodation for each of the different groups using the Invercarron Resource Centre is not good enough – say members of Stonehaven and District Community Council. At their meeting this week, members expressed their ongoing concern at Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership’s, AHSCP’s, decision to turn the Invercarron Resource Centre into a vaccination […]
AT last night’s meeting of Stonehaven and District Community Council, members heard from the developers of Ury Estate who described their recent planning application for a supermarket. The new proposals would replace those in an existing planning approval with a different design and layout to accommodate the operational requirements of the operator, Wm Morrison Supermarket […]
STONEHAVEN’S Horizon Group gained a royal thumb’s up last night when Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Kincardineshire visited them to say ‘thank you’ for their efforts. Leading the recent entry into the Beautiful Scotland competition has made 2021 a big year for the group of civic pride volunteers. The town is still holding its breath for […]