Draft Housing Land Audit 2025

What you told us

The Draft Housing Land Audit 2025 was published for consultation in July 2025 for a period of six weeks. This is an annual consultation to engage with stakeholders to update the status of all sites available for housebuilding across Aberdeenshire.

Responses to the consultation were received from a range of developers, agents and key agencies. This included comments on around 75 individual sites within the audit, covering issues such as expected programming, possible constraints, and queries relating to infrastructure provision, ownership and marketability. In addition, there were general issues raised relating to new Housing Land Audit Guidance from the Scottish Government and the presentation of data within the audit, together with the ‘Call for Sites and Ideas’ process for the next Local Development Plan.

We we’re doing

Amendments were made to sites across the area in response to comments received and a meeting was held with stakeholders in September 2025 to discuss outstanding issues. The final Housing Land Audit 2025 report will be published towards the end of 2025 on our website Housing market statistics - Aberdeenshire Council.

You can view the original project here: Draft Housing Land Audit 2025 | Engage Aberdeenshire