Support for north-east coastal improvement projects is welcomed
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Two initiatives aimed at improving the north-east coast will receive more than £75,000 in funding support from Aberdeenshire Council.
The East Grampian Coastal Partnership (EGCP) and the Scottish Wildlife Trust both applied to the Coastal Communities Challenge Fund seeking grants.
EGCP asked for just over £26,600 to help deliver its Turning the Plastic Tide project.
The beach litter programme was initially launched in 2017 to tackle the waste problem along Aberdeenshire’s coastline.
Money from the fund will allow two part-time members of staff to be employed.
Meanwhile, the Scottish Wildlife Trust will get a £50,000 grant.
The cash will be used to enable the second phase of improvement works at the Longhaven Cliffs nature reserve to get underway.
Members of the local authority’s infrastructure services committee approved both applications recently.
Councillor Stephen Smith welcomed the funding for Turning the Plastic Tide, noting it was a “very important project”.
He added: “They are a small body and have a small budget but they do a lot of good work.”
The Peterhead South and Cruden member also said he was “very pleased” to support the Longhaven Cliffs project.
He explained: “The local community association had expressed some concern about erosion of the path and landslip in the past and this will address that.”
While Mearns councillor George Carr also gave his backing to the applications.
He said: “Coastal path work in the south has been a transformation and has opened the area up.
“The work done has been great and we have to keep going with it.”
