New Aberdeen exhibition centre agreements signed Published duration 21 December 2015

Legal agreements for a new Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre have been signed.

Planning permission for the new AECC - including a 200-bedroom hotel - was granted by the council's planning development management committee on 10 December.

The new AECC will be part of a £333m complex on the site of the Rowett Research Institute at Bucksburn.

Exhibition space will be quadrupled and seating capacity doubled.