Aberdeenshire councillors will be asked to rule on two new planning applications for a travellers site near St Cyrus next week.
A group of families clubbed together and bought land near the local nature reserve in 2013 – then turned it into a camp without official consent.
Planning applications were lodged last month, but were rejected by councillors.
One of the two new proposals is for the creation of an official permanent halting site, and the other is for the provision of a site for touring travellers on the same compound.
The first application is seeking full planning permission for an eight-stance caravan park, a road, recycling point, and boundary fencing.
The second is for the erection of two stances, a toilet block, a washroom, a pump station, a recycling point, a road and boundary fencing.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has previously warned that only two of the 10 caravan stances at the site would be above water if the land was to flood, which it did in 2012 and 2013.
A decision will be made when the applications are discussed at a meeting of the full council in Aberdeen on April 30.
Aberdeenshire Council could approve traveller site at St Cyrus next week
