Plans to create ‘village green’

Plans have been lodged to create a new village green and build 40 homes in a north-east community.

The proposals for the development to the southeast of Crimond on the A90 Peterhead to Fraserburgh road have been submitted by landowner Sked Construction Ltd.

Planning consent on the site, known as The Reisk, was granted for a 42-home development in 2008 has now lapsed. Some initial work to create a new access road were completed however.

Now Sked Construction has submitted an application to Aberdeenshire Council planners for 40 plots with a mixture of two, three and four-bedroom detached and semi-detached homes.

In a design statement, the applicant said: “Crimond is a small village straddling the main A90 trunk road midway between Peterhead and Fraserburgh. Development in general is small scale with maximum two-storey height.

“The relative ‘detached’ position of the majority of the site together with the surrounding tree and shrub belts lends itself to an inward looking development with houses surrounding a central open space to give a “village green” sense of place.”

The report says the new estate would be connected to the existing village – home to around 800 people – with a footpath.

Aberdeenshire Council’s education department was consulted about the application – which could bring dozens of new children into the village – and raised no objection.

The new homes will be zoned for Crimond School for primary-aged pupils and Fraserburgh Academy for secondary school youngsters.