Decision details

The Council resolved:-

(i)             to agree Option 3 in the updated Streetscape Full Business Case (Appendix A and as illustrated in Appendix B);

(ii)           to agree the Market to Guild Street Phase 1 preferred route identified in Appendix C;

(iii)          to refer the projects highlighted in (i) and (ii) above to the capital planning and budget process for future years’ delivery;

(iv)          pending the outcome of the budget process, to instruct the Chief Officer -Capital to monitor projects through the capital planning process reporting progress to Finance and Resources Committee;

(v)           to instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to formally approach potential funding partners for future years’ capital funding contributions toward delivery of all streetscape projects in relation to active travel;

(vi)          recognising that segregated cycle facilities were now planned along the length of Union Street, to agree that proposals for a Queens Cross to City Centre cycle route be re-absorbed into the wider Westhill to Aberdeen Active Travel Route Outline Business Case (OBC), and instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to report the OBC to the Net Zero, Environment and Transport Committee later in 2024;

(vii)        to note the animation work that had been undertaken to promote the themes within the overarching City Centre and Beach Masterplan, Local Development Plan and Net Zero Aberdeen strategies to children and young people (Appendix D), and thank the young people who had been involved in the project to date; and

(viii)       to note that the Masterplan Manager would arrange for a functioning link to be circulated with regard to page 6 of Appendix A.