Aberdeen City Council is moving forward with proposals to transform a piece of land next to a major roundabout.
The site, known as the Middlefield Triangle, will be created as part of Transport Scotland’s £30million plans to alleviate the notorious Haudagain bottleneck.
The authority had put forward five options for the community to consider, with just 110 residents responding.
And now, councillors on the communities, housing and infrastructure committee have voted to whittle these down to two choices which would include retail, green space and housing.
Option four is retail and green space, which would cost £2.3m, with the other option being part retail, public amenity and 72 flats.
Northfield and Mastrick North councillor Jackie Dunbar had called for just one option to be put forward, which did not include housing.
Ms Dunbar argued that the low number of people who had responded in favour of housing – just five – showed it was not what the community wanted.
She said: “If you put it forward, that means that we are not listening to the people”.
SNP opposition leader Stephen Flynn shared his party colleague’s view and claimed the site was an undesirable location for housing because of the surrounding traffic.
But council leader Jenny Laing suggested the SNP did not want the Scottish Government to have to foot the bill for the option five because it was the more expensive of the two ventures.
The majority of the committee voted to move forward with two options. If approved by members, councillors will hear about the feasibility of both in August.
It comes just months after the city council agreed to rehome 79 tenants living in the triangle site including those in Logie Avenue, Logie Gardens, Logie Place and North Anderson Drive.
