Aberdeen Airport hotel and parking scheme rejected
06.06.08
Councillors have rejected plans to build two hotels and additional car parking at Aberdeen Airport. The joint application - for a 172-bed Garden Inn and a 102-bed Premier Travel Inn - was turned down by the city council’s planning committee despite a ‘chronic’ shortage of hotels in Aberdeen and a recommendation for approval by council officials.
The application, submitted by the airport and developer KW Properties, also included proposals to create a long-stay airport car park with more than 1000 spaces at the Dyce Drive business park, plus office accommodation.
Councillors said they were concerned the plans could contravene the Dyce Drive design brief approved in 2004 and, as a result, could breach Scottish Government planning policy. There were also fears that planned improvements to transport infrastructure would not be sufficient to cope with the extra traffic the developments would bring. They voted 12-2 for refusal.
Local business leaders said that the decision was ‘extremely disappointing’ - coming a day after delegates at an economic summit in the city highlighted the need to speed up the planning process in pursuit of ‘global super-region’ status by 2025.
An Aberdeen Airport spokesman added that some visitors to the city had recently had to be taken as far away as Perth and Macduff because of the shortage of hotel beds in the area. He said: ‘With this in mind, it is particularly disappointing the councillors have turned down proposals for much-needed facilities.’
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