Councillors will tomorrow decide if a 155-year-old local church should become housing.
The plans, if approved, would see Johnshaven Church transformed into four residential flats.
The application, lodged with Aberdeenshire Council earlier this year, has been recommended for refusal when it goes before the Kincardine and Mearns Area Committee.
The church was put up for sale in July 2015 for £75,000 when the congregation shrunk to a handful of members.
If approved the current members of the congregation will relocate to St Cyrus.
The building is owned by the Church of Scotland with the sale subject to planning approval being granted.
Councillors George Carr, Jean Dick and Bill Howatson requested the application be referred to the Committee.
Benholm and Johnshaven Community Council as a statutory consultee lodged its objection to the application back in February.
Councillors at tomorrow’s meeting will also discuss planning applications for the Mill of Forest and Mains of Cowie developments – both of which propose building large-scale supermarkets.
Another supermarket application at the New Mains of Ury by the Sluie Estate Trust will also go before the committee.
Council chiefs have recommended the refusal of planning permission in principle for all applications, which will go before the full council for a final decision.
The local authority has labelled all the applications as being “significantly contrary” to the local development plan.