A closed youth hostel could be converted into new Aberdeen villas, the resurrection of a derelict Aboyne hotel continues apace and plans to turn an Ellon garage into a church have been blessed by officials. 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 in a bid to form changes big and small in our communities.
We start with plans to do up an Aberdeen city centre pub found to have a bit of a ramshackle roof...
Justice Mill Wetherspoons spending £500k on repairs Any recent passersby might have noticed work taking place on the Justice Mill Wetherspoons at the top end of Aberdeen’s Granite Mile. It comes as the chain spends more than on renewing its roof, reporting that it had “failed”. Meanwhile, “rotten” windows are being repaired and replaced.
Papers say they are “leaking and in a bad state”. More plant equipment is being put on the Union Street roof during the project, while an “unsafe” gable chimney is taken down. Wetherspoons states: “Following an inspection by a structural engineer this gable is unsafe and is to be taken down as an emergency as soon as safe access can be arranged.
” Severe storms are to blame for the damage. The council has now signed off on changes to the listed building dating back to the 19th century. And the work should be complete by .
