Here are some key updates from Aberdeenshire Council Roads Service about potholes, drainage work, and street lighting.

Council officers are in talks with Hunter Construction regarding a site commencement date for the road surface defect repairs in Portlethen/Newtonhill/Muchalls.

They were due to start this week, but have been delayed due to the effects of Storm Arwen elsewhere in the Shire. However, some road remedial works should be carried out in Newtonhill later this month.

Last month the service completed drainage maintenance works on Devenick Drive in Portlethen where footway surface water was posing a flood threat to one of the properties there. The drains are now working properly and the problem has been resolved.

This month, weather permitting, they will be addressing drainage issues on Monduff Road in Muchalls, where surface water is running off the public road on to a private road causing erosion damage.

The street lighting section is carrying out the design for new lighting columns, cable and ducting on Bruntland Road, Portlethen; from Bracken Road to Cookston Road. Once the design has been completed, they will tender a contract on Public Contracts Scotland with a planned start date in 2022 (likely a February start date).