Aberdeen Snowsports Centre could be set for new slope and ski run

• Planning application before council committee next week

• 68 metre ski run planned for site at Garthdee

A planning application for the development at the dry ski centre is due to come before a meeting of Aberdeen City Council’s Development Management Sub-committee next Thursday. And the development is being recommended for approval by Dr Margaret Bochel, the council’s head of planning and sustainable development.

She states in a report to the committee:”There are existing facilities on site - the main artificial ski slope and two further areas of slope with two existing ski tows. Detailed planning permission is sought for the construction of a new ski slope and ski tow lift to the northern edge of the ski complex. The ski run would be approximately 68 metres in length and at an angle of approximately 15 degrees and would be covered in an artificial surface. There would be three ski ‘stations’ each comprising a steel support column for the ski tow, each with a height of 4.5 metres and positioned at the bottom, half way up the slope and at the top.

“The ski lift and run would be an additional facility within the established ski centre, which can be accommodated on the site. Whilst the ski lift columns and in particular the column at the top of the run would

have a visual impact due to their height, this impact would not be unacceptable upon residential or visual amenity.”