Property News - Aberdeen tailors fashion

Standard Life Investments is preparing a planning application to develop Aberdeen's first retail fashion park. An application for 140,000 sq ft (13,005 sq m) of new retail on part of the Royal Cornhill Hospital site at Berryden Road on the outskirts of central Aberdeen will be submitted to Aberdeen City Council later this month.

The Berryden Fashion Park will be aimed at traditional high street retailers occupying large stores with free parking on site for 600 cars.

Standard Life Investments already owns the 230,000 sq ft (21,365 sq m) Beach Boulevard retail park in Aberdeen, which has been chosen by JJB Sports as the location of its first health, fitness and sportswear centre in Scotland. Contracts have also been exchanged with MFI and Pagazzi Lighting.