Planning Authority of the Year
Strategic Place Planning Service, Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeen City Council’s Strategic Place Planning service area includes the physical, social and economic activities used to maintain, regenerate and strengthen the place of Aberdeen. Their focus is to enable, facilitate and deliver effective placemaking across the City. This includes all of the planning, transport, environmental, housing, building, building standards and digital initiatives that will help to deliver major infrastructure projects, meet the outcomes in the City’s Local Outcome Improvement Plan and help strengthen the wider economy of Aberdeen and the wider City Region.
Fife Council
Fife Planning Authority is one of Scotland’s largest Planning Services in Scotland. While Fife has a mixture of urban and rural settlements, two-thirds of people tend to live in an urban setting, mainly in or near to, one of its three large urban areas of City of Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes, while the remaining people live in smaller towns or villages. With 80 staff leading on statutory planning, development management transportation, climate change and zero waste, and a range of built and natural environment services Fife Planning prides itself on customer focus, enhancing Fife’s places and addressing climate change.