Aberdeen City Council

The results of a major public consultation on Aberdeen City Council spending that will help shape next year’s annual budget have been published.

The first new council houses to be built to the gold standard in Aberdeen have been completed and are ready for tenants to move in. The development at Cloverhill in the Bridge of Don will provide 536 homes which will be a mixture of flats, cottage flats, and two, three, and four-bedroom houses. The

Aberdeen City Council has received 3179 responses at the close of the first phase of a public consultation that will help shape spending decisions for the authority’s annual budget next year.

The minister for equalities, migration and refugees, Emma Roddick MSP visited families who have been housed in Resettlement Funded properties in Aberdeen yesterday. Aberdeen City Council secured £6.15 million from the Scottish Government’s Longer Term Resettlement Fund to refurbish up to

Two new council housing developments in Aberdeen, which were put on hold due to high costs in the construction sector, are back on track after a value engineering review identified project savings.

Aberdeen City Council has launched a landmark public consultation that will help shape the 2024/25 Budget and future spending plans. The feedback will be shared with all Elected Members to help them decide how to allocate funds for running services and set council tax and fees and charges, whilst en

In an effort to combat child poverty, Aberdeen City Council and NHS Grampian have affirmed their mutual commitment in a jointly produced Child Poverty Action Report, approved by the Community Planning Aberdeen committee this week. The Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 places a duty on local authorit

A new method for allocation of Aberdeen's council housing that allows residents to make informed decisions on where they live has been introduced. Choice Based Lettings (CBL) allows applicants to view all available properties online from Aberdeen City Council and place bids for those that they wish

The Prince of Wales visited Tillydrone Community Campus yesterday to launch Homewards – a programme that will demonstrate it is possible to end homelessness, making it rare, brief, and unrepeated.

A working group aiming to better understand how to tackle poverty and inequality in Aberdeen will be formed following approval at Wednesday's Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee. The working group will facilitate closer collaboration that will inform and support the Anti-Poverty Committee advisors

An important planning document which will help to shape future land use of Aberdeen and guide planning decisions including housing developments, leisure, and industrial zones was approved yesterday and will be formally adopted by Aberdeen City Council over the next few days. The modified Aberdeen Lo

Councillor Christian Allard has been appointed co-leader of Aberdeen City Council following a vote at the local authority's Urgent Business Committee. He replaces Councillor Alex Nicoll, who earlier this month announced that he was standing down from the position. Councillor Nicoll will continue to

An innovative process that continues to enable residents to have direct decision-making powers to help decide spending priorities in communities is to be carried out in Aberdeen. Aberdeen City Council’s Communities, Housing and Public Protection Committee received an update on implementing Par

An extensive consultation exercise with tenants, owners and other stakeholders throughout Aberdeen is to be carried out as part of the production of a full options appraisal of eight city centre multi-storey blocks.

Local charity Cfine has distributed the equivalent of 120,000 meals to 68 community food members across the city as well as providing 300 free memberships for community pantries through the cost of living funding, members of Aberdeen City Council’s Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee heard t