Banchory Lodge Caravan Park is demolishing a house to make way for more Deeside tourists, the new owner of a £1.2 million Aberdeen mansion has unveiled home improvement plans and a historic gate lodge at Inverurie is in line for a refurbishment. All these and more feature in this week’s Planning Ahead, our weekly round-up of the latest proposals being pondered across the north-east.
Every week we bring readers a selection of the most interesting applications submitted to our councils to form changes big and small in our communities. But first, let’s celebrate our recent warm weather with some appropriately refreshing plans..
. Anyone for ice cream? It may have taken its time getting here, but summer has finally arrived in the north-east over the past week or so. And what better way to celebrate than with an ice cream? Building papers reveal plans to turn an empty unit at 230 Holburn Street in Aberdeen into a new parlour and coffee shop.
The site had been put up for sale . These new plans have been put forward by Harish Maliekkal. 230 Holburn Street had been the home of Deeside Cleaners for years, before being turned into a barber shop latterly.
The store is just along from the Sera Mediterranean restaurant and New York Pizza, and across from . Let there be light at historic Marischal College quad As the home of Aberdeen City Council, some might argue that Marischal College isn’t all that often associated with bright ideas. However, one illuminating concept for the build.