The £300,000-plus, purpose-built complex, for which planning permission has been granted, will be built on a site of just one acre near the fire station at Cruden Terrace.
Grampian bought the ground for over £30,000, after earlier proposals in the School Road area of the Arduthie (Edinview) private housing estate were turned down.
Now the region's social work committee have agreed to invite tenders for the work, and if all goes well, the project could be begun before the end of the year.

50 YEARS AGO
Friday August 1 1958

AMONG memories of a summer which has been more noted for its rainfall than for its sunshine, the date, Tuesday July 28 1958, will long remain in the minds of many.
For then it really did rain, to the discomfiture of holiday-makers throughout the county.
Campers at Stonehaven's ill-starred Mill Lade site had to make a hurried evacuation when the River Cowie rose and overflowed their camps to a depth of about two feet. Most of them had advance warning of the possibility of flooding and the site was quickly cleared – all except a motor van which was abandoned in lonely isolation among the flood waters.
The 1st Uddingston Company, Boys Brigade, whose camp was at the west end of the site, were only partly flooded, but they, too, had to abandon their tents. They were given shelter for the night at the nearby Cowie Mill.
Some flooding from rain water took place at the caravan site also.
Householders near the lower reaches of the Carron, which was also running high, took precautions against the flooding of their properties.

100 YEARS AGO
Thursday July 30 1908

SIR ALEXANDER BAIRD, Bart. Of Urie, has written Provost Torry expressing his high appreciation of the compliment paid to the family by the inhabitants of Stonehaven and neighbourhood on the occasion of the birth of his grandson on Saturday last.
Mr John Baird, yr. Of Urie, has also sent a communication to the Provost expressing his great pleasure at the Union Jack being hoisted over the Town Hall in honour of the son born to Lady Ethel and himself on Saturday.
He very much appreciates the honour done to their son by their friends and neighbours at Stonehaven, and expressed the hope that the heir may be privileged to spend many happy days among them.
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NO little surprise was manifested at the failure of the Town Band to give an open-air performance last week.
After their creditable display at the Beach and the good collection they obtained, the general expectation was that they would appear the following Friday or Monday, but this was not the case.
It is said they are hard at practice, so we may expect to hear them soon.