Aberdeen City Council unveil new potential designs for city centre

Aberdeen City Council (ACC) have unveiled new potential designs for the city centre, shaped by a public consultation last year.

The designs include play areas, public art, events spaces, and greening the area with trees, planters and rain gardens.

Within the city centre, the proposed changes would make it easier and safer for people to move around by walking, wheeling, cycling, and using public transport, and would result in a less polluted city centre environment.

Access will still be possible to all properties, car parks and other destinations, however in some cases the routes that cars can take to get to these destinations would change.

ACC Operational Delivery Convener Councillor Miranda Radley said: "We want to ensure the city centre is a thriving place to visit, work and live in by investing wisely and ensuring people have an opportunity to contribute to the proposed designs for the area.

"The proposals would also encourage more people to make the shift to walking, cycling, or public transport as well as providing more opportunities to hold events, more green areas, more public art, and play areas for the city centre."

A new online public consultation is available here.

Check out all the pictures unveiled by ACC in our gallery below.

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• Aberdeen City Council