 The farm has been owned by the former Chairman of Grampian Country Foods Alfred J Duncan CBE since 1990 and has been the centre of a number of development proposals submitted to Aberdeenshire Council since 2013, varying in size from between 230 and 700 homes.Braehead farm is located to the south of Banchory, Aberdeenshire in the rural community of Auchattie.The farm was part of the wider Banchory Lodge estate until 1950 when it was sold to Col. Reginald Pepys De Winton  as part of the smaller Riverstone estate.