Local Scottish Liberal Democrat Councillors Andrew Hassan (Mid Formartine) and Marion Ewenson (Inverurie & District) today welcomed news relayed to all Councillors in a briefing session that “no new A96 routes have been discarded” as the debate goes on as to which side of Inverurie the new route will go. There was a particularly warm […]

Formartine Area Committee convened at the Kirk Centre, Ellon for the first meeting of 2018 today. The first main item on the agenda was a discussion on the Aberdeen Health & Social Care Partnership Performance & Outcomes Framework Quarter 2 Report (July-September 2017). A largely positive report for this period, although I did ask a […]

Can I take this opportunity to wish all residents from Mid Formartine, and across Aberdeenshire a very Merry Christmas and good wishes for 2018. I am obviously going to take a few festive days off to share the season with my family, but will be back on business towards the middle of next week – […]

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 […]

I was really saddened to awake to the news there had been a fire at Meldrum Primary School early this morning. Firstly, can I thank the 8 crews from across Aberdeenshire who battled through the night to save the building and contained the fire in a small area of the school saving it from any […]

Formartine Area Committee returned to Ellon this morning for the latest meeting. The first item for discussion was the Police Scotland – Performance Monitoring and Operational Update. Formartine generally remains a relatively safe place – with “area” figures being widely very good and showing reductions. I raised concerns with more ward-specific figures,Petty (Common) assualts going […]

Council convened today for it’s November meeting. The Provost began proceedings by noting Council’s sadness on the news of the death of Dr Ian Findlay who was a co-opted member of the Education and Childrens’ Services Committee. Congratulations were also given to Cllr Lesley Berry who was in the chamber for the first time following […]

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 […]

Today, The Formartine Area Committee convened at the Baden Powell Centre in Turriff. The meeting began with a discussion with Piers Blaxter on the Draft Development Plan Scheme 2018.  Mr Blaxter is currently working his way around the Community Councils for their input into the important document. We then discussed several planning applications, which resulted […]

Following the recent Formartine Bus Forum, I’ve decided to run a survey on Bus Travel from Oldmeldrum. If anyone would like to fill it out for me, it only takes around five minutes, and the link can be found here:   https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/N87QTJ6 Thanks for your support in advance !!