Kingswells Community Council

The attached poster is to inform you about the community events to be held across the city to  help develop Aberdeen City's Open Space Strategy. Please find attached the poster highlighting the dates and the venues of  Aberdeen City's  open space strategy  events.  (Click poster to make bigger) 

Two public engagement events on the future city schools are being held this week.
Both drop-in sessions will be held at the Cowdray Hall,  next to Aberdeen Art Gallery, the first on Wednesday 23rd June,  from 4.30pm until 8pm and the second on Saturday between 10am and 12pm.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

On 27 May the Education, Culture and Sport Committee instructed officers to take forward recommendations to review the secondary school estate.
Council officers are now engaging with all stakeholders on a range of options as laid down in the report.

ACC have now considered all the feedback that was received from the public for the Main Issues report and have prepared responses. These will be made public and will appear on the ACC website. The papers also contain some changes to the proposed Plan. Work will continue and more changes are possible before the Development Plan goes to public consultation in August 2010. The paperwork can be found HERE.

The way in which Aberdeen City Council deals with the city's waste is under review.

A consultation has been launched to seek the views of interested parties on the draft Aberdeen City Waste Strategy 2010-25.

The new draft document is a complete revision of the city's existing waste strategy. The proposals contained in it seek to deliver the city's commitments and targets in a way that meet and deliver key policies and strategies on sustainable development and climate change.

On behalf of ACSEF, I am sending you a briefing note on their proposals for a radical transformation of Aberdeen city centre. It provides background to the project, the current situation and details on the public consultation. The aim of this note is to ensure that as many people as possible are in possession of all the facts as there are many misconceptions currently circulating. It also seeks to ensure that recipients are fully briefed on the project prior to the public consultation.

Page with links to previous consultations

The deadline for responses to a public consultation on
changes to Aberdeen City Council's Waste Strategy has been extended
until 17 April.

There has been a number of significant changes to waste management
since the strategy was published in 2001, including changes to waste
management targets, landfilling of waste, and the development of new
technologies for treating waste.

As a result of these changes, a review of the waste strategy is now required.

The Development Plan Scheme adopted by Aberdeen City Council on 19 March is now available to view.

The scheme formally opens up the process of the Aberdeen Local
Development Plan preparations and invites citizens and the private and
public sectors to work with the council in reforming the planning
system in the city.

The Aberdeen Local Development Plan will set out detailed proposals
for house-building and employment land, along with other development,
for a period of five years.

The Aberdeen City and Shire Strategic Development Planning Authority
today submitted a finalised structure plan to Scottish Ministers.

The submission - which follows approval of the plan last week by
Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils - marks the start of an
eight-week period when representations and objections can be made to
the plan.

Submissions must be made by the 24 April deadline and should be sent directly to the Scottish Government.

Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councillors today voted overwhelmingly in favour of the region's new Finalised Structure Plan.

The plan - which lays out an aspirational, 20-year vision for the
City and Shire - was backed by 26 votes to 11 at a special full sitting
of Aberdeen City Council and 59-3 at a simultaneous full council
meeting of Aberdeenshire councillors.