The eight week public consultation to find out what people think about plans to transform Union Terrace Gardens and the Denburn Valley has now closed. It is estimated that over 10,000 people provided feedback through the consultation process.
Over the next few weeks the feedback received by post, the website, email, telephone, text messages and focus groups will be analysed.
The process will begin with each single response being logged, checked and duplicates removed. The figures will then be analysed along with a vast amount of qualitative data, which will be studied for common trends.
ACSEF will then announce the result of the consultation on Tuesday 13 April.
A full consultation report will be published on this date. This will be made available on the project website at www.thecitysquareproject.com. A summary leaflet will also be made available.
Tom Smith, Chair of ACSEF, said: “A huge amount of work is now underway to analyse the quantitative and qualitative data collected over the last eight weeks. To put the scale of this task into perspective, the consultation report on Edinburgh Trams took 12 weeks to compile based on feedback from 3,500 people. There has been three times that amount of input from the public for the City Square Project.
“When ACSEF partners have had time to consider the opinions of those who got involved in the consultation a decision will be made as to whether we take our ambitions for the future of Aberdeen City Centre forward.”
If the consultation has demonstrated there is a groundswell of support for the creation of The City Square, feedback from this process will help form the brief for an International Design Competition. The resulting designs will then be subject to a formal planning consultation.
Independent communications organisation Weber Shandwick is developing the consultation report.
