Aberdeenshire Council presses ahead with Inverurie Town Hall office space plan
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Documents which have been made public this week have revealed that Aberdeenshire Council intends to press ahead with the revision of office space in Inverurie as it seeks to move out of Gordon House.
A long standing plan had proposed the move of staff out of Woodhill House in Aberdeen and Gordon House in Inverurie to a newly created headquarters which was to be built at the rear of the existing Town Hall.
This in turn had followed on from abandoned plans to create a complete new building at the current site of Inverurie Loco Works football ground, had they been able to create a new ground within the confines of Strathburn Park.
A revision of the council's office space strategy which was instigated in 2018 proposes the amalgamation of offices within towns including Inverurie and Ellon to bring together staff into smaller more modern working spaces, in this instance a new build to the rear of the town hall.
In June last year, an update to the plans was made due to the effects of coronavirus, which had brought many schemes to a hault.
At that time, only work was being carried out at offices in Stonehaven and tendering for work at Woodhill House where Police Scotland were due to take up office space.
On March 16, councillors in a private session of the Garioch Area Committee whose minutes have now been made public agreed to the gateway second stage of the town hall plan which will now be taken to the next full meeting on Aberdeenshire Council at the end of April for approval.
At the same closed session a report from the Director of Business Services had been circulated to seek the committee’s approval to sell the site of the former Blythewood Care Home.
The estate manager explained the background to the report, specifically on differences between this proposal and others which had been made previously.
The home has been subject to several attempts at redevelopment since its closure and has also suffered from fire damage following an incident in April of 2018.
Members agreed to report and asked officers to proceed with the sale.
