Plans for a £140million development which includes 600 homes will be unveiled to the public next week.
A masterplan for the Blackdog scheme was approved by councillors in 2013 – on the proviso the developer allocates space for a travellers site on the land.
The project, which was allocated in the 2012 local development plan, also includes a primary school, employment land, retail and leisure facilties.
Next week, a public exhibition will be held in Balmedie to give local residents the chance to examine the ambitious proposals.
It will be held on Tuesday – the same day councillors will be asked to approve a 48-home phase of the project.
However, yesterday locals said several issues would have to be addressed before the any work takes place.
Resident Edna Booth, 82, said a history of landfill sites around Blackdog would make such a site dangerous for travellers.
She said: “The issues is not the houses but the initial plans. That travellers site would be based just to the north of the Blackdog and would be on the top of an old landfill site which contains asbestos.
“A very high content of carbon dioxide was found in that ground down there.
“It is a shame these travellers have got to go in a site that is not really suitable.”
Fellow local, Nicola Brown, 44, said any developments at Blackdog – which neighbours the A90 Aberdeen-Peterhead road – should be “halted” – until the construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) is complete.
She added: “There is some concerns about traffic to the area until such a time as the bypass is built. Traffic is bad enough as it is, that A90 junction is as death trap.”
Ashfield Land now own the land and the scheme will be delivered by Kirkwood Homes.
Kirkwood director Allan Rae, said the AWPR works at Blackdog should be complete before the delivery of the 600-home scheme.
He added: “Part of the application in the LDP was there is a requirement for a traveller’s site which would be probably be in the land element to the north.
“I can understand the communities anxieties around that, I think it is understandable.
“We are keen to engage closely with as broad a cross section of the local community as possible throughout the planning and construction process.”
The exhbiiton will be held at the White Horse Inn from 2pm-8pm.
Planners at Aberdeenshire Council are urging local members to push ahead with the 48-home Blackdog development at next Tuesday’s meeting – despite its own LDP stipulating no development should go ahead there until after 2017.
The proposals for one, two, three and four bedroom homes at Hareburn Terrace have attracted 54 objections from locals concerned about pollution, drainage and roads capacity.
Stephen Archer, director of the council’s infrastructure services, said it was “appropriate and justifiable” to approve the homes being built prior to 2017 as they could be “accommodated within the existing roads infrastructure”.
Similar proposals for 48 homes were approved by the council last year.
He added: “The impact of the development upon the strategic transport network, including the A90 and the proposed AWPR has been assessed and does not give rise to any concerns.
“Early release of 48 units can be accommodated within the existing roads infrastructure and as such there are no technical barriers to this early scheme progressing.”
But Blackdog resident Nicola Brown said: “Hareburn Terrace is neither wide enough nor is it in a suitable state of repair to withstand the amount of vehicles that will be generated by another 48 houses.”