A major development in Aberdeen city centre will not include a car park or provision for students – despite including plans for more than 400-bed accommodation complex.
Detailed plans have now been submitted to Aberdeen City Council for the Atholl House site on Guild Street.
The existing site is earmarked to be demolished to make way for shops, a 463-bed student accommodation block, a 192-room hotel and a public square.
However no car park will be included in the proposals, and no permits will be issued to students living in the accommodation, in order to deter them from parking on roads nearby.
A statement sent to local authority planners on behalf of Atholl Square Developments said: “While there are parking restrictions on the surrounding road network, with parking not permitted on Guild Street, Bridge Street or Wapping Street, there are a number of public car parking opportunities, both on-street and off-street, in the Merchant area of the city centre where the development site is situated.
“As a no parking development, students would not be entitled to resident parking permits for surrounding streets.
“Given the existing parking controls, the development would not increase parking pressure on surrounding streets.”
