[1] The Outline Planning Permission proposes the development of over four thousand houses, along with shops, offices, parks and schools.

Hume Square is Chapelton's first public green, lined with traditional terraced houses and the town's first businesses.

The Chapelton Community Interest Company has been set up to manage many aspects of the new town, particularly those beyond the remit of Aberdeenshire Council.

Directly accountable to residents, the CCIC also has the remit to regulate future development within the community to ensure that purchasers can be sure of the design that they buy into.

A variety of parks have been designed throughout the development and several are already built ranging from the more formal Hume Square, already home to the Bike Ride and other events and boasting cherry trees underplanted with bulbs.

The newly created Liddell Park includes The Hut which is a community building and the first children's play area.

At the entrance to the town is a large country park and the community woodland, planted by new residents, forms a growing backdrop.

The Chapelton Trail, designed on tracks and along the Causeymounth and Elsick House drives, is on offer to those who like countryside walks.

In addition, Brio Retirement Living's Landale Court offers a range of apartments and houses along with its Slate & Grain brasserie and bar.