Site Of Forres Academy/Applegrove/Roysvale Forres Moray
Approved on 14 January 2026
Council decision: PermittedPlanning committee41 conditions
Proposal
Erect a new three-storey building comprising of 1120 pupil secondary school and additional support needs teaching facilities and community facilities with associated hard and soft landscaping external sport provision and car parking and bus drop-off to replace existing academy on
- Received
- 23 September 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Moray Council
- Ward
- Forres
- ReceivedReceived23 Sep
- ValidatedValidated23 Sep
- Consult.Consultation28 Oct
- TargetTarget Date13 Jan
- DecidedDecided14 Jan
Decided in 113 days (council typically 91)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Site Of Forres Academy/Applegrove/Roysvale Forres Moray. Moray has handled 1,087 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 3 weeks longer than Moray's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Forres.
98% of full applications at Moray Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 13 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Application type
- Application for Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Forres
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 22 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 14 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 28 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 15 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 22 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 22 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 13 January 2026
- Committee meeting
- 14 January 2026
- Decision issued
- 15 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 15 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 50 Bell Street Glasgow UK G1 1LQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 112 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 15 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 4 November 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 35
Site constraints
Source: Moray
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