Councillors have been urged to approve plans to bulldoze an Aberdeen hotel to make way for 68 new flats.
The Cloverleaf Hotel in Bucksburn would be demolished under the affordable homes proposals put forward by Stewart Milne Homes.
The hotel at Kepplehills Road, which is still open for business, was built in the middle of the last century and is comprised of two-storey, with a single-storey extension.
Stewart Milne Homes, the north-east’s largest house-builder, has asked for detailed planning permission to demolish the hotel and erect 68 affordable flats in its place.
The development would be divided into two blocks, with the first to provide 35 homes in a mixture of two and three-storey sections, and a further 32 flats to be built in a smaller, second block.
Planning officials have recommended that councillors approve the scheme when it is considered at a meeting of the development management committee on Wednesday next week.
The developer lodged a pre-application notice and a public meeting was held at the Cloverleaf Hotel in August last year.
About 80 people attended and concerns were raised about the loss of the hotel, and the impact on traffic, while 11 letters of objection were later submitted.
Bucksburn and Newhills Community Council suggested that the proposals represented an “over-development” of the site, that the scale of the scheme would be out of character with the local area, and raised concerns about the impact on local schools and roads.
Maggie Bochel, head of planning at the city council, recommended approval, however.
“The flats would be designed and sited at a level suitable for the amenity and context of the surrounding area,” she said in a report to committee members.
Meanwhile, councillors will also reconsider plans for a 71-bed hotel in the city centre at next week’s meeting.
The Danmor Developments scheme at Union Glen was approved in April, but will go back to elected members after amendments were made.
Officials have recommended approval subject to conditions, despite seven letters of objection.