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 Welcome
This website provides information on the proposed Aberdeen City and Shire Structure Plan
Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council are together taking forward the preparation of a new structure plan to replace the current Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Structure Plan " North East Scotland Together" (NEST)
NEST remains the current structure plan until it is replaced by the new plan, which is likely to be in about 2 years time. You can find out about where we are with developing the plan here
 Early engagement
Both Councils are committed to an open process of listening to views on what the plan should say, at a stage in its development before decisions are made. The timetable for the production of the plan was reviewed by the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Strategic Planning Committee A provisional revised timetable is given below. This will be confirmed by a revised development plan scheme early in the new year:
January 2007 to August 2008 Developing the strategic environmental assessment (SEA).
This stage includes:
• identifying the aims for the assessment;
• collecting information about the environment, which the plan will be assessed on;
• carrying out the assessment;
• consulting people about the assessment; and
• showing that the final plan has properly considered environmental matters.
This stage continues throughout the project, including developing the final plan.
March 2007 to June 2007: Consulting people about issues we have identified. Our stakeholders and community groups have identified a range of issues to consider. We will consult people’s views on how important and relevant these issues are, and get their views on the vision that the plan will seek to achieve. We will then assess the results.
March 2007 to September 2007: Identifying the best strategic option. We, and our main stakeholders and community groups, have already considered possibilities for where developments could be built (strategic options). We will carry out a technical assessment to find out if these different options can be delivered, and community groups and other organisations with an interest in the plan will assess how far each option would help us achieve a draft vision. This will help us advise councillors which option to take.That recommendation can be seen here
September 2007 to March 2008: Developing the draft plan.
We will develop a draft structure plan based on the strategic option we have chosen and the response to the consultation on issues to consider.
April 2008 to September 2008: Consulting people about the draft plan. We will get people’s views on the draft plan and its associated strategic environmental assessment. We will then assess these views to decide what changes we should make to the draft plan.
September 2008 to December 2008: Developing the final plan. We will make changes to the draft plan in light of the views we received from people when we consulted them.
September 2008 to December 2008: Developing the action programme. With the main organisations providing transport, water and phone services (and so on), we will identify the limits to putting our structure plan in place. We will then develop a programme for putting the structure plan into practice, setting out who needs to do what.
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What is the provisional strategy adopted for the new structure plan? 
