Source: Aberdeenshire Council·Updated daily·Last checked 7 Oct 2026
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Plota holds 1,750 current planning applications from Aberdeenshire Council, received since 20 Aug 2025, 437 of them in the last 90 days. Behind them, the Plota archive holds 25,696 earlier applications from Aberdeenshire Council, 2016 to 2025, searchable by location and keyword. Current records are collected from the council's public register at upa.aberdeenshire.gov.uk and checked every day; the last check was on 7 Oct 2026. Each record carries the council's reference, address, proposal, dates, status and decision, with a map location and Plota's classification by type and procedure added. The council's own record is the authoritative version; every entry here links to it.
Latest application from Aberdeenshire: 6 Oct 2026. We check the council's portal daily.