A north-east transport firm wants to demolish a dilapidated workshop to create an employment-boosting new engineering plant.
Gray and Adams, which was founded in 1957, has its main production facility and head office in Fraserburgh but also operates bases in Doncaster, Dunfermline and Newtownabbey.
The company makes temperature-controlled lorry trailers used for transporting food around the UK.
Bosses have now applied to Aberdeenshire Council for permission to tear down a decaying garage on the Kessock Road industrial estate in Fraserburgh, before erecting a new vehicle body repair workshop in its place.
They say the plans will allow them to create a “much-needed” jobs boost in the area.
Papers lodged with the local authority state: “Gray and Adams is one of the major employers in the north-east and the erection of the new workshop and the proposed redevelopment of the South Road site will in turn allow us to provide and offer further much needed employment opportunities in Fraserburgh and surrounding areas.”
The firm bought the 1.34 acre patch of land from the council in March and an assessment on the Category C-listed structure revealed that it was “not practical or feasible to retain the building due to its condition”.
Gray and Adams intends to use the site as a replacement for its workshop on Maconochie Road.
The firm says it needs more manufacturing space due to an increase in demand for refrigerated transport across the UK. It is also expanding its chassis manufacturing workshops in the town.