Introduction

Our concept is simple, but it opens up a world of exciting opportunities.

So what exactly does the Banchory & Leggart development promise to deliver?

Banchory & Leggart Estates owns over 600 hectares to the immediate south of Aberdeen, a wedge of land that sits between the A90 and the River Dee.

It is proposed to transform this existing farmland into a mixed-use development for business and housing, set in a new 360-acre country park.

The business park will cover 35 hectares and feature much-needed, high-quality office accommodation.

The 200 hectare housing development of up to 3,000 new homes will comprise a full range and choice of housing, supported by key community services.

The new country park will feature 360 hectares of woodland and farmland, with walkways, cycle paths, picnic areas and viewpoints.

The rationale behind it is equally simple.

Aberdeen City and Shire badly needs a development of this kind – one that is undertaken in a sensitive and sustainable way.

It needs quality business land to generate new job opportunities and maintain economic growth. It needs a project that encompasses a wide range of housing choices. And it needs the confidence that such developments are undertaken with the natural environment at heart.

Banchory & Leggart meets all these imperatives with an imaginative, integrated concept.

Our plans are being fed into the ongoing planning processes that will shape growth and development in the region over the next 25 years. The draft structure plan makes provision for major economic growth which includes 72,000 new homes in the region. We are responding to the challenge of providing for that future growth

Those plans will feature effective transport links as an integral element. And the scope for adding wider community value – via links with near-neighbour The Robert Gordon University, for example – is immense.

It will all be done within a carefully planned framework of measures designed to sustain and enhance the existing landscape. Sustainable building techniques and renewable energy sources, for example, will be central features of our plans.

A place for people to work, to live, to enjoy. A place that supports the long-term wellbeing of Aberdeen City and Shire.