There will be space for the new homes at the Peterculter site just off the A93 route leading to Royal Deeside.

The self-build status of the homes means that anyone hoping to build their own property could start work without the need for land acquisition or planning permission from the council.

Aberdeen City Council approved the plans for Culter House Road unanimously.

Earlier plans to build a housing development on the Strawberry Grange site were submitted to the council in 2011 and 2012 but were rejected as councillors felt there was already adequate housing in the area.

Planning documents have revealed that the site will have a central cul-de-sac with roads branching off to serve individual plots.

Woodland surrounds the site to the north and south which developers say will be preserved with a “buffer zone” bordering the plots, the Press and Journal reports.

Plans for the development were subjected to several changes before Aberdeen councillors were happy to approve them. The developers had to abandon the idea of creating the houses as a “gated community”.