Aberdeen City Council

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Aberdeen City Council's credit outlook from 'stable' to 'negative', though the local authority's credit rating has been retained.

Former Police Scotland offices in the centre of Aberdeen are being marketed as an opportunity to build more city residential accommodation.

Plans to build a housing development of over 100 homes on the outskirts of Aberdeen have begun. The development can now begin as Silverburn House, on Claymore Drive in Bridge of Don, which formerly housed GE company Baker Hughes has been demolished.

CALA Management Ltd and Voluntary Services Aberdeen (VSA) have withdrawn plans submitted to Aberdeen City Council to build 41 flats in the city.

Once completed, the new £30 million development located on Wellheads Road in Dyce, will house 283 new homes. The site will include a mix of one, two, three and four-bedroom units across four buildings, each five storeys, with green open spaces, outdoor seating and children’s play areas.

A five-year rolling plan to help meet affordable housing needs across Aberdeen was agreed by councillors this week.

A report has revealed that more than 2,000 homes are lying empty in Aberdeen.

Tenants in Aberdeen and Stirling will be among the first in the country to benefit from next-generation digital connectivity thanks to a partnership between a group of social housing providers and full fibre infrastructure provider CityFibre.

Plans to build almost 120 new homes across two developments have been conditionally approved by Aberdeen City Council.

Aberdeen City Council has selected Chap Group to deliver a major new development of council homes.

Housing minister Kevin Stewart MSP has officially opened Castlehill Housing Association’s development at Maidencraig on the Lang Stracht in Aberdeen. Built by Bancon Homes, the development consists of 36 two and three bed houses with their own garden and ample parking spaces nearby. 

The biggest council housebuilding programme in Aberdeen in more than half a century has taken another major step forward as plans progressed for 283 new homes. First Endeavour LLP is set to deliver the housing units at Wellheads Road in Dyce after entering an agreement with Aberdeen City Council.

The second phase of a major council housing development in Aberdeen has been completed – with more than half the properties now occupied.  

A collective of tenants, residents, registered social landlords and local authorities in the North East celebrated the launch of a strategy and action plan over lunch with social housing tenants, residents, staff and partners.

Aberdeen City Council is to map out a programme of works for an “ambitious residential-led mixed use development” in the heart of the city.