Aberdeen

Aberdeen City Council has granted planning permission in principle for a major expansion to the north of the city. The application for the Rowett South site at Bucksburn includes 1,700 houses, retail and commercial provision as well as education, leisure and community uses.

Designs have emerged of the £200 million extension of Union Square in Aberdeen as the public are given the opportunity to have their say on the development. Based on two key themes, ‘The Granite City and its Harbour’ and ‘Aberdeen’s Maritime Heritage’, it is hoped the designs can help att

Aberdeen city centre Housing and better connectivity have been unveiled as two of the main priorities set out in proposals for an Aberdeen City Region Deal.

New imagery of Aberdeen’s £107 million Marischal Square transformation has unveiled the type of building materials which will be used for the project. A special showcase event in the city by developer and urban regeneration specialist Muse Developments revealed that two-thirds of the mixed-use pr

NHS Grampian has unveiled plans to invest more than £150 million into building new facilities at its Foresterhill Campus in Aberdeen over the next five years. The health board took the first step in the formal process towards creating at least 10 new facilities on the site by lodging a pre-applicat

A public consultation on proposals to create a new £320 million harbour on the Aberdeen coast has been agreed following a meeting of city councillors. Aberdeen City Council’s communities, housing and infrastructure committee discussed the plans for Nigg Bay at their meeting yesterday which were f

Plans have been submitted to flatten the site of a former Aberdeen city centre pub and build a 100-room hotel and office development. Archial Norr have submitted proposals on behalf of Status Properties for a 4/5 star hotel and spa on the site which housed the former Budz Bar as well as the current

Prof David McClean outside the new Scott Sutherland School building Robert Gordon University (RGU) has completed the second phase of its £120 million Garthdee campus project in Aberdeen, with the new £16m Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment set to welcome its first studen

Plans to expand a major oil and gas office complex in Aberdeen have been revealed. A planning application has been lodged to create a 20,000sq ft extension at Chevron House, part of the Hill of Rubislaw Business Park that is the UK home to oil giants Chevron, Marathon Oil and Conocophillips

Councillors have decided not to relax planning conditions to try to resolve a dispute that is holding up a major 3,000-home development in Aberdeen. The £700 million scheme at Countesswells, west of Hazlehead Park, was approved last October but work is being delayed because of a ‘Section 75’ di

Plans have been unveiled for a multi-million pound expansion of the Union Square shopping centre in Aberdeen. In addition to new retail and leisure space, there are plans for additional parking spaces and a hotel. Expansion of Union Square will also be complemented by a reconfiguration of part of th

Dandara is to develop a new north-east Scotland distribution hub for parcel delivery company DPD at its Badentoy North business park on the outskirts of Aberdeen. DPD has secured the 43,000sq ft office and workshop facility, with extensive yard, on a 4 acre site in a 25-year deal.

Woodland Grove CHAP Homes is preparing to embark on the £12.5 million development of the next phase of a major north-east residential complex after concluding a deal to take full ownership of the project.

A £2 million nursery for pre-school children of students and staff at the University of Aberdeen has become the first fully certified Passivhaus building in Scotland to also attain a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating. Designed by BMJ Architects and built by Burns Construction, the new Rocking Horse Nur

Plans to develop the former Triple Kirks site in the heart of Aberdeen into a world-class new accommodation facility for academics have now been submitted. Dandara had originally proposed to develop the building into offices but opted to create 337 units for students earlier this year due to a chang