Infrastructure Requirements

Introduction

In preparing the Aberdeen Local Development Plan, the City Council's aim is to provide clear guidance to all stakeholders, including the development industry, on the infrastructure required to support development.

From an early stage in the preparation of the Local Development Plan, the City Council has worked in close partnership with a wide range of agencies - through the Aberdeen Future Infrastructure Requirements for Services Group (or FIRS) – to establish the infrastructure requirements to support development. The FIRS Group comprises representatives from the following organisations:

- Aberdeen City Council including colleagues representing Roads, Public Transport, Transport Policy, Housing Strategy, Education, Culture and Sport, Development Management and the Planning Gain Team
- Transport Scotland
- Scottish Water
- NHS Grampian 
- Nestrans
- Aberdeenshire Council

Members of the FIRS Group have assessed the likely impact of future development and the extent to which existing services and facilities can support new development. This has led to the identification of new or improved services required to support development across the City. The results of this work are set out here:

Infrastructure Requirements

Please note that the infrastructure requirements and the map below were updated in August 2010 to take account of sites to be identified in the Proposed Local Development Plan.

The requirements listed are based on the most up to date information currently available, and additional requirements may be identified through later stages in the preparation of the Local Development Plan. Developers should take into account the likely requirement for a contribution when preparing and costing proposals. The precise level of infrastructure provision and developer contributions required from a particular development will need to be agreed with the Council, and other statutory agencies, through the masterplanning and planning application process. There may be circumstances where development imposes additional pressures and require more extensive contributions to those identified.

The infrastructure requirements have been allocated to eleven Masterplan Zones, shown in the enclosed map and listed in the table below, within which developers will be expected to work together to prepare Masterplans reflecting the planning and delivery of the associated infrastructure requirements.

Masterplan Zones Map - updated August 2010

Further details on infrastructure requirements and developer contributions, including the timing and delivery of infrastructure identified, will be set out in the Proposed Plan which will be published on 24 September 2010, and will be subject to consultation until 17 December 2010.

Contacts

• Development Plan Team
  Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure
  Aberdeen City Council
  Business Hub 4
  Marischal College
  Broad Street
  Aberdeen
  AB10 1AB
  Phone: 01224 523098
  Fax: 01224 523180
  Email: ldp@aberdeencity.gov.uk