The Communities Committee met at Woodhill House this morning for the final Policy Committee meeting this year. The meeting began with a briefing session on the forthcoming rollout of Universal Credit nationwide.  The Aberdeenshire rollout commences with Montrose postcodes, with Peterhead postcodes going live in June and finally Aberdeen postcodes in October. There are challenges for […]

Communities Committee met today at Woodhill House. We acknowledged the revenue & capital budget monitoring as at 30th September 2017, and also acknowledged that there were no budget adjustments to notefollowing virement approval. Following extensive thanks to David Rout, Scottish Fire & Rescue Service Local Senior Officer for Aberdeenshire & Moray who is retiring before […]

Communities Committee met on 7th September for the first meeting since Summer Recess. We acknowledged and discussed the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service Aberdeenshire Performance Report 1st April – 30th June 2017. In Mid Formartine: there was only one accidental dwelling fire this term, down three on the same period last year There were no […]

At today’s meeting of the Communities Committee: I was elected onto the Regulation of Private Sector Rented Housing Sub-Committee alongside other members. Members were also elected onto the Housing Adaptions Grants Appeals Sub-Committee, the Gypsy/Traveller Sub-Committee, the Aberdeen Foyer, Aberdeenshire Sports Council and Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action. We discussed the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service Aberdeenshire […]