February 22 2021

Aberdeen City Council has brought forward plans for 213 homes for social rent at the former Kincorth Academy following its demolition and relocation to a new campus.

The move frees up around 4 hectares of brownfield site off Cairngorm Drive for the delivery of a series of grouped apartment blocks and terraced houses arranged around garden courtyards and forming an urban street edge.

Employing mono-pitch roofs the new homes finished in robust brick overlayed with anodised metalwork the properties will employ a mix of internal and external balconies at key corners and junctions.

Led by Atkins and Rankin Fraser this work specifies a mix of growing beds, fruit trees, gathering spaces and drying greens to provide low maintenance and useable outdoor space arranged around pedestrian and cycle priority routes.

Atkins wrote: "Due to the challenging topography of the site a series of development platforms have been created that work with the existing levels to reduce the need for significant groundworks.

"The platforms in conjunction with a new orthogonal street geometry seek to stitch and weave the site into the fabric of the surrounding area. The result is a gridded site plan with a series of development parcels.

"Barrier-free access around the site will be provided with careful grading within the path and landscape design, which will strengthen community spirit and enhance neighbourhood identities."

Kincorth is a sister build to a development of 99 apartments at the former Craighill Primary by jmarchitects and Rankin Fraser. 

1 Comment

#1 Posted by Zoltan on 24 Feb 2021 at 20:42 PM

Mega-blocks of up to 30 1-bed flats (served off no fewer than 5 cores!) is this really what is needed? where do the folks that quickly outgrow their one bedroom go to?
City blocks that don't create decent streets, but dress it up in a fancy brick to get that nice elevation shot - honestly some of these new housing schemes have more than a whiff of emperor's new clothes about them

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