Plans to reopen one of Aberdeen’s oldest buildings as a museum which will honour the city’s most famous sons and daughters have taken a step forward.
The long-term scheme for Provost Skene’s House, built in 1545 and now within the Marischal Square complex, is to reinvent the building with a “Hall of Heroes” featuring the likes of Annie Lennox and Denis Law.
An application for consent to alter, repair and remove parts of the category A-listed structure was lodged with Aberdeen City Council in May and has now been approved.
This will allow internal alterations to take place.
The proposals, which have been approved on the local authority’s planning portal, are a step forward for multi-million-pound plans to transform the centuries-old building into a major tourist attraction.
Aberdeen City Council co-leader Douglas Lumsden said: “I am delighted Provost Skene’s House has received the necessary planning permission required to upgrade the interior of the house.
“The building complements Marischal Square and the administration will now move forward with the upgrade to include the Aberdeen Hall of Heroes which the public determined in a poll.”
The line-up for the exhibition was announced in 2017 with nearly 2,000 people taking part in a public vote.
Originally costed at around £1.5 million, the museum was due to open alongside the rest of the facilities at Marischal Square last year.
But the project has been hit by delays and it was announced last February that the attraction was scheduled to open in the winter of 2019-20.