diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/angular.io-package/index.js b/aio/tools/transforms/angular.io-package/index.js
index 3c9c34693c..20be9130f2 100644
--- a/aio/tools/transforms/angular.io-package/index.js
+++ b/aio/tools/transforms/angular.io-package/index.js
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ const Package = require('dgeni').Package;
 const gitPackage = require('dgeni-packages/git');
 const apiPackage = require('../angular-api-package');
 const contentPackage = require('../angular-content-package');
-const { extname } = require('canonical-path');
+const { extname, resolve } = require('canonical-path');
+const { existsSync } = require('fs');
+const { SRC_PATH } = require('../config');
 
 module.exports = new Package('angular.io', [gitPackage, apiPackage, contentPackage])
 
@@ -32,4 +34,12 @@ module.exports = new Package('angular.io', [gitPackage, apiPackage, contentPacka
     checkAnchorLinksProcessor.checkDoc = (doc) => doc.path && doc.outputPath && extname(doc.outputPath) === '.json';
     // Since we have a `base[href="/"]` arrangement all links are relative to that and not relative to the source document's path
     checkAnchorLinksProcessor.base = '/';
+    // Ignore links to local assets
+    // (This is not optimal in terms of performance without making changes to dgeni-packages there is no other way.
+    //  That being said do this only add 500ms onto the ~30sec doc-gen run - so not a huge issue)
+    checkAnchorLinksProcessor.ignoredLinks.push({
+      test(url) {
+        return (existsSync(resolve(SRC_PATH, url)));
+      }
+    });
   });
diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/config.js b/aio/tools/transforms/config.js
index 77a29b730a..8f6008a208 100644
--- a/aio/tools/transforms/config.js
+++ b/aio/tools/transforms/config.js
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ const AIO_PATH = resolve(PROJECT_ROOT, 'aio');
 const TEMPLATES_PATH = resolve(AIO_PATH, 'tools/transforms/templates');
 const API_TEMPLATES_PATH = resolve(TEMPLATES_PATH, 'api');
 const CONTENTS_PATH = resolve(AIO_PATH, 'content');
-const OUTPUT_PATH = resolve(AIO_PATH, 'src/generated');
+const SRC_PATH = resolve(AIO_PATH, 'src');
+const OUTPUT_PATH = resolve(SRC_PATH, 'generated');
 const DOCS_OUTPUT_PATH = resolve(OUTPUT_PATH, 'docs');
 const API_SOURCE_PATH = resolve(PROJECT_ROOT, 'packages');
 
@@ -17,5 +18,5 @@ function requireFolder(dirname, folderPath) {
     .map(p => require(resolve(absolutePath, p)));
 }
 
-module.exports = { PROJECT_ROOT, AIO_PATH, TEMPLATES_PATH, API_TEMPLATES_PATH, CONTENTS_PATH, OUTPUT_PATH, DOCS_OUTPUT_PATH, API_SOURCE_PATH, requireFolder };
+module.exports = { PROJECT_ROOT, AIO_PATH, TEMPLATES_PATH, API_TEMPLATES_PATH, CONTENTS_PATH, SRC_PATH, OUTPUT_PATH, DOCS_OUTPUT_PATH, API_SOURCE_PATH, requireFolder };