I am delighted that the trustees of Northcote Lodge care home have bought the area of land between the care home and Airyhall House. This land had been offered for sale as a site for housing development.

A planning application has been made to build 35 three and four bedroom council houses and bungalows on the site of the former Kaimhill Outdoor Sports Centre and the children’s play area off Inchbrae Drive. The proposal includes creating a new play area at the junction of Devenick Place and Ramsay Gardens.

Permission has been given to convert the Mariner Hotel into nine flats and a house and to build two semidetached houses in the hotel car park.

Aldi has now submitted a formal planning application to build a supermarket on Countesswells Road opposite the entrance to RGC’s Countesswells playing field.

Aberdeen City Council is seeking people’s views on the Aberdeen Local Development Plan: Proposed Plan 2020. Amongst other things, this sets out locations for new homes, businesses and facilities and identifies areas for protection. 

There is no sign that building work will recommence anytime soon at the derelict lock up garages at the Great Western Road end of Salisbury Terrace.

Residents have told me how concerned that are at the possibility the area of open space on the northern side of Auchinyell Road at its junction with Garthdee Road may be zoned for house-building. This proposal has arisen as part of the process of preparing a new Local Development Plan for Aberdeen.

A consultation is now underway on the Proposed Aberdeen City and Shire Strategic Development Plan. The Aberdeen City and Shire Strategic Development Planning Authority agreed the Proposed Plan on 24th August. The Proposed Strategic Development Plan covers a number of key issues which will help to shape the Aberdeen City Region over the coming years. […]

Aa its meeting on 22nd March the Planning Committee gave planning permission to convert the former Morrisons’ store at the Seafield shops into a coffee shop. The approval of the planning application is subject to a number of conditions. You can read the report prepared by the council’s planners about this planning application here.

I have been asked by residents what the current status is of the planning application to build a care home on the empty site at the junction of Abergeldie Road and Holburn Street. I have checked with the council’s planning staff and, because there were only a small number of objections, the decision about whether […]