The Lodge on the Loch hotel outside Aboyne could be turned into a huge home, an Aberdeen laser treatment clinic might soon be given a makeover as a house too and Gray and Adams needs to expand its Fraserburgh offices. 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.
First, we take a look at plans for a stunning new home out in the Aberdeenshire countryside. Centuries-old Donside farm building could be given new lease of life The owners of a 200-year-old stone outbuilding at Strathdon want to transform it into a modern home. Kieran McGowan, who owns the nearby Bogforlea Farmhouse, has put in the plans for the building just off the A97 Huntly to Dinnet route.
He would keep the stone parts of the “historically important” outbuilding when carrying out the conversion. Blueprints show it would come with a ground floor whisky room, to sample some malts while taking in the countryside views. Aristocrat wants to build new home at Aberdeenshire farm Meanwhile, Guy Linzee Gordon, whose owns Cluny Castle, has lodged plans for a new home in nearby Sauchen.
He wants to build a spacious four-bedroom house on empty land at a nearby farm. is run by the applicant’s brother Cosmo Linzee Gordon and his wife Bronya. The land has been in for generati.
