Aberdeen’s Victorian heritage can be seen in its harbour (DENNIS HARDLEY/ALAMY)

IT REPORTEDLY has the highest concentration of multimillionaires anywhere in the UK and prides itself on being Europe’s oil capital.

But Aberdeen is now in danger of being named the most dismal community in Scotland.

The Granite City has emerged as an unlikely front-runner in the annual Carbuncle awards, which name and shame towns and cities that have been scarred by woeful planning and unsightly architecture.

Over the years the contest has been dominated by concrete-blighted, central belt new towns, such as Cumbernauld, Glenrothes and Linwood.

But now it has just been confirmed that Scotland’s affluent third city has been shortlisted for the unwanted accolade.

John Glenday, editor of architectural magazine Urban Realm, accused Aberdeen’s civic leaders of squandering the city’s oil wealth and of