107 homes and 108 flats, including affording housing, are to be built in Aberdeen following approval from the City Council's Planning Development Management Committee.

Cala Management Ltd has received approval to build 107 houses and 12 affordable apartments on land north of Friarsfield Road/Kirk Brae in Cults. The scheme includes landscaping, car parking, access roads and pedestrian/cycle paths.

The development was approved subject to conditions including 10% of affordable housing; developer contributions towards primary and secondary education, sport and recreation and healthcare; and financial contributions towards the delivery of a link road.

26 affordable flats for Dandara Ltd/Langstane Housing Association at 80 Summerhill Road in Aberdeen also received the go-ahead.


Conditions included a legal agreement to ensure the development is restricted to affordable housing, along with developer obligations for primary and secondary education, the Core Path Network and the Strategic Transport Fund.

Donside Phase Two at Gordon Mills Road in Tillydrone was approved, including 24 two-bedroomed flats in a seven, eight and nine-storey block.

Planners recommended approval for the Donside Ltd scheme was granted conditionally, with consent to be withheld pending developer contributions towards community facilities.

The site is within the centre/east side of the Donside Village development next to the River Don. Planning permission for mixed-use urban village of 278 homes was conditionally approved in April 2008.

Cala Homes Aberdeen (North) Ltd has been permission to build 46 flats at May Baird Avenue in Ashgrove, with associated car parking and landscaping.

Conditions included a legal agreement for 25% affordable housing on adjoining land and developer contributions in relation to primary education and the Strategic Transport Fund, and participation in a Car Club to mitigate a shortfall in car parking.

Committee convener Councillor Ramsay Milne said: "There is a shortage of accommodation – particularly affordable accommodation – in the city so these developments will make a significant difference in this sector of the market. The City Council has comprehensive plans in place to address these shortages and I am delighted these developments will help fill the gaps."

(IT/CD)