Decision details

(i)            to note the outcome of the market testing exercise instructed by this Committee on 29 August 2017;

(ii)           to instruct the Head of Land and Property Assets to openly market the site in accordance with Aberdeen City Council’s aspirations  and report back with the outcome to a future and appropriate Committee in due course;

(iii)         to note the outcome of the further dialogue with the Council’s Economic Development Service regards potential demand for business incubator units in the Triangle Site note and that this option will not progress any further at this stage;

(iv)         to note the outcome of the further dialogue with Education and Children’s Services in relation to potential demand for land in the Middlefield area for Early Learning, Childcare provision and staff training facility and note that this option will not progress any further;

(v)           to congratulate residents of Middlefield and partners for their work in improving Middlefield, work that has seen the area recognised in the top 3 of Scotland most improved place;

(vi)         to welcome the SNP Councillors support of the Labour, Conservative and Independent Alliance administration’s policy for the relocation of tenants from the Middlefield triangle affected by the re-aligned road; and

(vii)       instructs the interim Director of Communities Housing and Infrastructure to write to Kevin Stewart MSP, Minister for Local Government and Housing requesting full compensation for the relocation of tenants in the Middlefield Triangle site and demolition of the Housing caused by Transport Scotland’s re-routing of this road.