A Correction That Should Never Have Been Needed!

SSEN have issued a public correction to their Brechin housing announcement, and it says a lot about how they are handling the TKUP project.

This week with much public fanfare SSEN claimed they were building 47 houses in Brechin for incoming construction workers and that these properties would later be handed over to Angus Council for community housing.

This statement has now been withdrawn. Angus Council had no involvement at all!

Let’s be clear about what this means.

SSEN made a major public-facing claim about long-term community benefit that simply wasn’t true. They presented it as fact, and they did so while their TKUP application is still under consideration, as if approval were already guaranteed. That is not an honest or responsible approach to a live planning process.

This kind of behaviour is not a minor slip. It is part of a pattern in which SSEN push optimistic narratives that are later walked back when challenged. Announcing community benefits that have no basis, then quietly correcting them after public reaction, undermines trust and raises serious questions about transparency.

At a time when thousands of residents, landowners, farmers, and businesses are already concerned about safety, land use, agricultural loss, and the impact on homes and livelihoods, SSEN should be raising standards, not lowering them!

We will continue to monitor and scrutinise SSEN’s public statements closely. Accuracy, honesty, and respect for due process are the minimum expectations for a project of this scale.