As reported in the Evening Express: “A retirement village including a hospital is being lined up to replace a £50 million scheme for a fivestar country club complex, the Evening Express can reveal today. Scottish Ministers backed plans to create the 200-bedroom hotel – which would also include a restaurant, spa and swimming facilities – at Hazlehead Park in June last year. But developer Carlton Rock, led by Aberdeen businessman Alan Massie, now hopes to create a village which would include a private hospital with 60 beds, a nursing home consisting of 40 to 60 bedrooms as well as homes and apartments. The major development by Carlton Rock could also involve up to 60 flats for those aged over 55, 30 to 60 residential properties and a church. Shops are also being proposed for the area. The project, along with the creation of 55 homes on the former Dobbies Garden Centre and Nursery on Aberdeen’s Hazledene Road situated nearby, would be worth between £50m and £60m.”