Your valley. Your voice.
A community campaign asking for proper scrutiny of SSEN Transmission's proposed Strathbogie Hub —
covering the fairness of the site-selection process, local roads, farming, wildlife, water, landscape,
and the cumulative impact of several overlapping pressures on one valley.
Local knowledge matters. Written responses help make sure it becomes part of the record.
SSEN has told Scotland what Pathway to 2030 may add. We are asking what it may cost.
This new working draft asks for equal evidence on roads, homes, wildlife, water, community burden, future infrastructure, carbon, waste, reuse and the green claims being made.
A benefits ledger is not a balance sheet.
Phase 2 — Scrutiny and evidence
The first SSEN feedback deadline has passed. The scrutiny has not.
Please read our Community Code of Conduct before commenting, sharing evidence or contacting public bodies on behalf of the campaign.
We are a community campaign based in the Deveron Valley, Aberdeenshire. We exist because the valley is facing several overlapping industrial, infrastructure and development pressures — and local people have not yet been shown a joined-up assessment of how these pressures interact.
We are asking one straightforward question: who is responsible for assessing the whole picture?
"I don't know what to do, and nobody is listening."
↓"I understand what's happening, I know how to respond, and my local knowledge is part of the record."
Save the Deveron Valley is not anti-renewables, and we are not opposed to the electricity grid being improved where genuinely needed.
We are asking whether the right site, the right route, the right scale, and the right assessment process are being used — and whether local people have been given enough clear information to participate meaningfully before decisions are made.
We are also asking whether lower-impact alternatives — including existing corridors, underground options, subsea routes, storage, demand reduction, and whole-system planning — have been properly assessed and explained to the public.
We are not asking for harm to be moved from one farming family or community to another. We are asking for a fair, transparent, evidence-led process before any preferred site is selected.
Assess the combined impact of relevant overlapping pressures on the Deveron Valley together — not each project in isolation, one at a time.
Publish the full connected infrastructure picture, explain the comparison of all shortlisted sites, and give communities a meaningful opportunity to respond before any preferred site is selected.
Ensure protected habitats, priority species, river ecology and sensitive conservation information are assessed properly through appropriate statutory and specialist channels.
Assess whether rural roads, bridges, school routes, farm access routes and emergency access can safely carry the construction and operational traffic proposed — across all developments, not just one.
Give local people enough information, time, and follow-up answers to respond properly before any site selection decision is made. Asking for feedback before key assessments exist is not meaningful participation.
The first SSEN feedback deadline has passed. The evidence record is still growing.
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376 verified voices — 124 to go.
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Send photographs, road knowledge, flooding history, land notices, river knowledge, historic-place information or other details decision-makers may miss.
Do not post exact sensitive wildlife, archaeology or private-water locations publicly.
Open Community Evidence ToolsThe proposed Strathbogie Hub, Shetland 2 infrastructure and the Beauly–Peterhead overhead-line inquiry must not be understood as disconnected fragments.
Read What Happens NextPlanning, pollution, wildlife, enforcement and formal consent questions may belong with different organisations.
Open Who Decides What? Open Who to ContactUnderstand: Start Here · What We Know · Full Impact Ledger
Act: Petition · What Happens Next · Who Decides What?
Share evidence: Community Evidence Tools · Who to Contact · Code of Conduct
Whether you attended an SSEN session, live nearby, use the roads, farm the land, care about wildlife, know the river, walk the area, run a local business, or simply love this place — your experience helps build a clearer community record.
Campaign email updates are coming very soon — including action reminders, plain-English summaries, response guidance, and next steps after the SSEN deadline.
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The scrutiny has not.
Thank you to everyone who submitted feedback, shared local knowledge, signed the petition, or helped a neighbour take part. Ground investigations are now under way at both shortlisted sites, and a future planning application is expected to bring another stage for public participation.
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We will not publish your personal contact details. Survey responses may be summarised or quoted anonymously unless you give explicit permission otherwise.
We take privacy seriously because this campaign may involve local concerns, planning matters, environmental evidence, and people who may not feel safe speaking publicly.
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