Supplementary Guidance

In addition to the Development Plan, Aberdeen City Council 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 the Council 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.

Contacts

• Development Plan Team
  Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure
  Aberdeen City Council
  Business Hub 4
  Marischal College
  Broad Street
  Aberdeen
  AB10 1AB
  Phone: 01224 523330
  Fax: 01224 523180
  Email: ldp@aberdeencity.gov.uk