Mandale Homes submits plans to convert Ruby House in Aberdeen into dozens of flats

The constructing, found off Silver Street, has been made use of as govt places of work and as the regional home of the National Modern society for the Avoidance of Cruelty to Small children (NSPCC).

Even so, now, just a person of the eight suites is occupied and only on a small-time period foundation.

The setting up was offered at auction very last June just after being set on the sector about two years in the past.

If approved, the concrete block created in the “brutalist” model, would be divided into three a single-bed room studio residences, 49 a single-bedroom flats and 13 with two bedrooms. Options also involve a 32-space automobile park and a bicycle storage area.

Architects ELG Organizing has quoted the council’s masterplan ambitions for the metropolis centre in in search of approval – with the wish to generate “good high-quality housing” in the spot.

They added that the proposal will “encourage the promotion of Aberdeen town centre as an energetic position and aid in strengthening the city centre economy”.

The builders have highlighted the not too long ago permitted plan to convert nearby Denburn House, overlooking Union Terrace Gardens, into a hotel and condominium block, The Press and Journal reviews. 

Mandale Households had options permitted to transform the Custom made Household developing on Guild Avenue into apartments rubberstamped in 2019.