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Supplementary Planning Guidance

In addition to the Development Plan, Aberdeen City Council (ACC) also produces Supplementary Planning Guidance to assist with aspects of planning policy and other matters covered by the planning authority. Supplementary guidance can be useful where:

  • there is a need for an urgent policy response to an emerging issue; or
  • the level of detail is inappropriate for a development plan - for example planning briefs, design guides and master plans for areas of intensive change.

Supplementary guidance is used to support statutory development plans, not as an alternative. Statements made in supplementary guidance carry less weight than the development plan but are likely to be material considerations in determining planning applications and appeals.

The guidance produced by ACC can be split into:

  • site specific guidance; or
  • planning briefs; 
  • information to assist understanding of policy and its application; and
  • guidance leaflets

Some of the guides file sizes mean that they may take sometime to open. If you have any problems please contact us.

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Contact(s)

  • Development Plan Team
    Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure
    Aberdeen City Council
    8th Floor St. Nicholas House
    Broad Street
    Aberdeen
    AB10 1BW
    Phone: 01224 523470
    Fax: 01224 636181
    Email: pi@aberdeencity.gov.uk