I have been assured that Newlands Drive in Hillside should be ready for the opening of the new primary school next month. Furthermore, the sign for School Brae which leads to the school should be going up shortly.
Newlands Drive is subject to a legal agreement between Aberdeenshire Council and Stewart Milne Homes to ensure it is substantially complete and fully open to serve new school prior to its opening. That said, Newlands Drive is unlikely to be formally adopted by the council until late 2018 or even early 2019.
The link between Newlands Drive and Barnhill Gardens is in an incomplete state and council officers are already pressing the developer to ensure that they remain aware of their responsibility to continue to maintain site to a suitable safe standard for public use. The state of the metal fencing and existing binder course surfacing has already been drawn to developers attention and this will continue to be monitored.