Planning proposals for a 600-home development in Aberdeenshire have moved one step closer.
The Kintore Consortium – made up of three local developers – want to construct the houses to the east of Kintore, along with a neighbourhood centre that would provide residents with much-needed amenities.
Planning permission in principle for the site, named Kintore East, was yesterday granted by the Garioch Area Committee on the condition that the plans be amended to include a community centre for residents.
Should the construction of the site go ahead, it will be on the grounds that the homes are not occupied before Kintore’s second primary school is opened, or before 2017.
The plans at the 207-acre farm site include more than 600 homes, community facilities, open space and associated infrastructure.
A neighbourhood centre, capable of providing a medical centre, care home, nursery, retail and commercial services, is also proposed in the plans.
Due to the scale of the development, the existing Broomhill roundabout would have to be re-modelled.
East Garioch SNP councillor, Fergie Hood, said: “There has been a number of consultations taken place with the local community by various council departments and personally I very much welcome this report and support this development.”
Scottish Greens councillor, also for East Garioch, Martin Ford, said: “It’s in the public interest, it would enable some of the things that are wanted in Kintore earlier than we could have anticipated it would happen.”