ABERDEEN City Council backing plans to turn its most deprived community’s last remaining green space into an Energy Transition Zone (ETZ) was not unlawful, Scotland’s highest court said today.

Friends of St Fittick’s Park had petitioned the Court of Session, arguing that the council’s September 2023 decision allowing ETZ to turn the park over for industrial use meant it should have carried out an equalities impact assessment. It suggested their failure to do so rendered the decision unlawful.

Lord Douglas Farley has refused the petition, however, accepting the council’s argument that its decision was to facilitate data collection.