The final vision of how a controversial Mearns Traveller site could look has been revealed.
The plans show the creation of what would effectively be a mini-village across the St Cyrus site with 10 large detached residential buildings.
Each would have its own garden with a road running through the centre of the site which is blocked off to the outside world by a large perimeter fence.
The vision of the completed site, which lies alongside a world-renowned nature reserve, has been produced for the group by an Angus architect.
A dispute has rumbled on in St Cyrus since September after they moved on to the land near Nether Warburton and began to dig it up to build a permanent caravan site.
A patch of privately owned land next to Esk View Farm was flattened and the foundations of walls and roads were created over a weekend in September.
A day later a retrospective planning application for a 10-stance permanent caravan park was submitted to Aberdeenshire Council.
The council placed a stop notice on the site and obtained an interim interdict from Stonehaven Sheriff Court to prohibit work continuing.
Allegations of continuing construction were then made to the local authority and a notice for a court appearance has now been served on the site occupants.
The first hearing in the case of Aberdeenshire Council against Traveller James McCallum and others will take place at Stonehaven Sheriff Court on December 19.
The court proceedings could start before Aberdeenshire Council makes its decision to approve or reject the retrospective planning application from Mr McCallum.
Mr McCallum, 34, insists he complied with the rules of the interdict and stopped work on the site as soon as the order was made.
The Courier can also reveal that another planning application has been submitted for the remainder of the site to become a temporary haven for passing Travellers.
The application has yet to be validated but it is understood this section will be used to provide temporary halting for any travelling family.
A council spokeswoman said: “The site has been assessed to determine what services need to be provided to fulfil the council’s obligations, including waste provision.
“In terms of education, applications for pupil enrolment have been received from households at the site and these are being processed. Five individual caravans on the site have been added to the council tax valuation list.”