Stadium plans out for consultation

Aberdeen’s plans for a new football stadium are to go back out to public consultation.

City council members were originally scheduled to vote on the Kingsford Stadium plans on October 11 but a decision was delayed at the request of the club.

Now, additional information on the plans for a stadium at Westhill, seven miles west of the city, will come under renewed public scrutiny. Acouncilstatement said a consultation on the new information would begin next week with a December 12 deadline for comments.

A further pre-determination hearing is set to take place on January 17.

The statement added: “The aim is for the planning application to be determined as soon as practicable, which could be by a special meeting of Aberdeen City Council, subject to the agreement of the Lord Provost.”

Raymond Edgar, project director for Kingsford, said: “Following the deferral in October, we have worked with the council planning officers to provide further reassurance that the club’s approach to selecting Kingsford complies with legal requirements.

“We have undeniably demonstrated that there are no other suitable, available and sequentially preferable sites within the city which could accommodate the development.

“In particular, we believe we have, once and for all, demonstrated that the proposals cannot be delivered at either King’s Links or Loirston.”