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Head of Scottish Residential and Rural Planning, Debbie has over 25 years experience advising on planning projects for the residential and rural sectors with specialisms in heritage, tourism and leisure.
Debbie's work covers large scale master planning projects, renewable energy schemes, strategic planning reviews and all forms of planning submissions.
She has a particular interest in promoting housing in rural areas and leads on Savills Community Engagement activity. She coordinates teams of professionals to undertake large scale planning submissions.
Debbie is the retained planning advisor for a number of Scottish estates including Scone Estate. She has led on research projects for Scottish Government and Scottish Land Commission. She has held a director role on the board of Rural Housing Scotland, and sits on the National Policy Group for Scottish Land and Estates.
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Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Town & Regional Planning
- MRTPI
Clients
- Crown Estate Scotland
- Scone Estate
- Pitgaveny
- Errol Estate
- Capper Farming Enterprises
- Elgin Energy
Savills Planning, led by Debbie Mackay, has been outstanding in supporting Scone Estates and their Community Engagement journey. They have managed the difficult task of coordinating and leading the Scone team through a complex area utilising simple concepts to highlight and embed Community Engagement as an everyday part of estate management. They were also instrumental in helping the estate develop an online methodology for enacting Community Engagement and that has recently been used to great effect on a forestry planting proposal.
Brian Stevenson, Chief Executive, Scone Estate
Debbie's Expertise
- Planning promotions
- Planning applications
- Residential masterplan developments
- Diversification opportunities
- Project coordination
- Negotiating developer obligations
- Removal of planning burdens
- Rural housing
- Community Engagement
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