Where are we to date September 2008:

As can be seen the Old Mart has now changed quite significantly since the Maud Village Trust started developments.

The community Service Centre has been in use now for over a year and our two main tenants, namely Buchan IT and E-Learning Services (Bites) and Buchan Dial-a-Community Bus (BDACB) are operating successful businesses. Other units are being rented on a short term basis, but we are always interested in new tenant as we still have units to rent. The café project is on the way and we hope to have it up and running early in the new year.

The Community Resource Centre is still in the construction phase and completion is anticipated by the end of October. This centre will provide medical and social service facilities for the community, was named by the local Primary School and will be called The Old Mart Community Resource Centre. One of the features of the centre will be a gymnasium which will be open the community to use.
The gardens completed last year and with plants maturing it a very pleasant and attractive feature to the village, that helped Maud to come second in the Village in Bloom competition this year.
Cornerstone has been completed their accommodation building and have taken up residence earlier in the year.

It was decided earlier in the last year to pull down the old ring building. demolition has been completed and the area cleared giving the site a much better appearance.

A feasibility study was carried out, by the Buchan Development Partnership, on the undeveloped parts of the site with funds received from the Big Lottery. The suggestion from that study were threefold, 1) Housing – Scottish Government “Rural Homes for Rent” Scheme 2) Landscaping and Play equipment 3) Village Green, Heritage and Events. We have put in a noted interest in the Government Scheme and await the out come of that. It was however decided that we would explore the suggestion of landscaping and extending the Community Centre car park . This would be a short term solution that would give us the opportunity to redevelop the land in the future, but improve the look of the site in the meantime.